Some of the people filmed included vaudevillians Joe Weber and Lew Fields , Eva Puck and Sammy White , Eddie Cantor , Ben Bernie , Oscar Levant , Phil Baker , Frank McHugh , Roy Smeck , jazz musicians Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake , " all-girl " bandleader Helen Lewis , harmonicist Borrah Minevitch , Nikita Balieff 's company La Chauve-Souris , opera singers Eva Leoni , Abbie Mitchell , and Marie Rappold , Broadway stars Helen Menken and Fannie Ward , folklorist Charles Ross Taggart , copla singer Concha Piquer ( first Spanish sound film ) , and politicians Calvin Coolidge , Robert La Follette , Al Smith , and Franklin D. Roosevelt . Smith and Roosevelt were filmed during the 1924 Democratic National Convention , held June 24 to July 9 at Madison Square Garden in New York City . Coolidge became the first U. S. President to appear in a sound motion picture when DeForest filmed him at the White House on 11 August 1924
1924 Democratic National Convention
1924 Democratic National Convention
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