Continued from Part One where we explored the Canvases, Quotes, Flags and Spirits of The Liberty Theatre
INTRODUCTION
It started when dreams and visions of a new world were shrouded in the myths and legends of an old world.
Finally through those early mists of uncertainty sailed the first great adventurers.
This tiny ship is the Mayflower.
Carrying pilgrims in search of their dream, a dream of religious freedom.
Early Beginnings
Far from welcoming the early settlers, this land severely challenged them.
It was a struggle for survival that gained but a tiny toll in a vast untamed wilderness.
Declaration of Independence
In the decades that followed, a new challenge began to emerge.
We were growing more and more apart from the mother country.
Passion began to govern and she never governs wisely.
Finally, the time had come to speak with one voice, in a declaration of independence.
Revolutionary War
♫ In the days of '76, my boys, we never must revere ♫
♫ That every man takes his musket up and fight for freedom dear. ♫
♫ We'll hit the flanks of the Redcoats' ranks as Yankee volunteers. ♫
♫ Oh, tis a great delight To march and fight, ♫
♫ But it's getting tough, I fear...♫
In the end, we the people, prevailed and achieved perhaps our greatest dream.
Thirteen very different colonies became the United States of America,
and we were free to become an entire nation of dreamers and doers.
Expanding Frontiers
Western bound, Dr. Franklin, to new frontiers!
Expanding Human Rights
You founding fathers gave us a pretty good start, don't ya know.
We still had some things to learn the hard way.
It seems a whole bunch of folks found out "We the people", didn't yet mean all the people.
Americans Divided
One of (if not THE) most ingenious aspects of The American Adventure is that (while the technology is state-of-the-art) the medium used for each scene is period-appropriate with only oil paintings used to portray various events of the 18th and early 19th centuries while most of the 20th uses motion picture footage.
With the invention of the photograph in 1822, The Civil War is depicted using photos primarily taken by Mathew Brady noted for being the world’s first photojournalist for his pioneering work documenting the war that pitted brother against brother.
Native Americans
I hope that all of us may be brothers with one country around us and one government for all.
From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more.
Forever...
Centennial Celebration
Well here we are, back in the heat of Franklin's Philadelphia again.
We are a hundred years old today. We came a long way in that first century.
Like Susan B. Anthony, we're still speakin' out.
Sequence Simulation
Joshua L Harris
Matte Restoration and Compositing
Preserving America the Beautiful
We soared into the 20th century on the wings of invention, and the winds of change.
But our "America, the Beautiful," she was changing too.
We needed people like Teddy Roosevelt, and an outspoken naturalist, John Muir, to get our attention.
The Global Challenge
Ya know, it seems to me like we're the only nation in the country, that waits 'til they get into a war, before we start getting ready for it.
Golden Dream Finale
To everyone a chance, believed Thomas Wolfe, to all people regardless of their birth, a right to live, to work, to be themselves, and to become whatever their visions can combine to make them.
This is the promise of America!
Golden Dream Sky
Bob Scifo
This is the combination of the Skyscape and “Sunflare”
In order to achieve maximum brightness, the Sunflare was* a stand-alone high-power slide projector next to the main 70mm projector that slowly fades up in brightness throughout the finale.
*This might have been eliminated with the conversion to digital in 2018
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