In this clip from 1932, the incumbent U.S. president, Herbert Hoover, and his democratic challenger, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), give speeches on the campaign trail. There are also shots at National Conventions.

Clip begins with a large crowd at the Republican National Convention (RNC), which is being held in a large auditorium. An American flag hangs over the crowd. 

A speaker at the RNC says that Republicans are gathered there to nominate their candidate to the presidency — Herbert Hoover, the incumbent U.S. president. The camera pans left slowly over a crowd that is waving white flags quickly and enthusiastically. 

A man at a podium announces that California has cast 44 votes for Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), which garners much applause from the crowd. A California sign is held high in the foreground. 

A wide, pan-right shot shows National Convention attendees wielding tall signs and waving flags. 

The rest of the clip alternates between the speeches of Hoover and FDR.

Hoover says the election is more than a contest between two men or two parties, but a contest between two philosophies of government. This appears to be Hoover’s campaign address at Madison Square Garden in New York City. 

FDR says change and party leadership don’t strike at the fundamental principles of the republic; rather, they offer opportunities to strip from the fundamentals of America’s founders all the noxious weeds and vines that cover the fundamentals, which obscure both the simplicity and cleanliness of the republic’s original outline. This appears to be FDR’s address at Bridgeport, Connecticut. 

Back at Madison Square Garden, Hoover says that for him and his supporters, it is not change to national life that they object to; rather, they object to changing the whole foundations of national life that have been built over generations of testing and struggle and upon the principle which America was built -- that is what they object to. 

FDR says to serve the public, to serve them reasonably, swiftly, and well. This is the road to economic safety, the very road that FDR asks his supporters to take. 

Hoover continues his speech, saying that his opponent, FDR, says that change is needed, that a New Deal is needed. 

In the final shot, FDR is at a different podium, with a flag draped overhead, and a large portrait of him hanging off a nearby balcony. FDR proclaims, “My friends, the time has come, the hour has struck.”