Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

Redglass Pictures was commissioned to create a series of films and immersive media installations that form some of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential ​L​ibrary’s signature storytelling experiences. Ranging from large-scale projection mapping to intimate documentary and multi-surface film, the work pairs visual spectacle with thoughtful, nuanced storytelling. Together, these experiences reveal the complexity, vitality, and enduring relevance of Theodore Roosevelt's legacy.

White House Facade

The largest media installation in the museum, this is a looping four-minute, 6K film projection-mapped across a 60-foot recreation of the White House façade. Blending vivid archival imagery, immersive sound design, and precisely choreographed visual effects, the piece transforms the façade itself, animating windows, columns, walls, and architectural details in a series of surprising moments that blur the line between the physical structure and the projected image. Unfolding with the propulsive energy of a Hollywood movie trailer, it races through the defining moments of Roosevelt’s presidency and leaves visitors with an exhilarating sense of the ambition, charisma, and seemingly boundless momentum of America’s first modern president.

Legacy

The museum’s finale and emotional anchor, Legacy is a four-minute, multi-surface film projected across a 25-foot-wide screen and the face of a copper beech slab from a tree Roosevelt planted at Sagamore Hill in 1895. Across these two surfaces, archival and original footage blend with evocative animation created in collaboration with award-winning studio PHLEA, infusing the imagery with a sense of wonder and visual poetry.

Drawing from an extensive study of Roosevelt’s speeches and writings, the film assembles his own words into a stirring, de facto farewell address. Voiced by modern luminaries including Oprah Winfrey, Jon Batiste, and Presidents Joe Biden and George W. Bush, Roosevelt’s words bridge his era and our own, transforming his legacy from a fixed memory into a living challenge to citizenship, service, and action for generations to come.

The legacy film was the highlight of the library. It brought all of us to tears repeatedly. - Theodore Roosevelt V

Theodore Roosevelt and Conservation

For a theater inside a recreation of Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch cabin, we created a six-minute documentary exploring the origins of the revolutionary conservation philosophy that would define his presidency and reshape the American landscape. Built around an original interview with renowned historian of the American West Dan Flores, the film traces Roosevelt’s difficult 1883 buffalo hunt and his firsthand realization that bison had been hunted to the brink of extinction. Blending archival material, motion graphics, and Roosevelt’s own words, the piece reveals the pivotal awakening that transformed a young trophy hunter into the nation’s conservation president, a leader who would protect more land in the continental United States than any president in American history.

Contemporary Voices

Interspersed throughout the museum’s narrative galleries, Contemporary Voices is a series of four films that examines the most contested aspects of Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy through a modern lens. Featuring interviews with historians and Roosevelt scholars including Ken Burns, Stacey Cordery, Leroy Dorsey, Michael Cullinane, Rosalyn LaPier, and Jimmy Sweet, the films explore TR’s words and actions around race, Native policy, immigration, masculinity, imperialism, and America’s role abroad. Rather than offering simple condemnation or defense, the series places Roosevelt’s views in their historical context while tracing their influence into the present, inviting visitors to think critically and leave with a fuller, more nuanced understanding of both the man and his era.

Services: Co-Lead Media Team

Client: The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library CEO: Edward F. O'Keefe

Creative Direction: Future of Stoytelling

Animation and motion graphics: Phlea TV

Storyboard and motion graphics: Yuliya Parshina-Kottas

Sound mixing and design: Jeremy S. Bloom

Contemporary Voices sound mix: Cory Choy

3D Artist: Evan Grothjan

Colorist: Stephen Derluguian