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1953 - Educational Film: Robert E. Lee - A Background Study

Reel Number: 221558-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1953

Country: USA

Location: Alexandria,Lexington,Mt,Vernon,Virginia

TC Begins: 03:21:16

TC Ends: 03:36:24

Duration: 00:15:08

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Robert E. Lee - A Background Study Coronet 03:21:42 Washington & Lee College buildings. Chapel, student enters & visits burial place w/ monument. 03:22:42 Hand plowing turf, farm field; Stratford Hall birthplace. Int. w/ harp, clock, paintings including his father’s. Rifles, furniture. View across farm field; black man in MCU folowing mule past. Black beside barn. Buildings & formal garden. 03:24:22 Pan along Potomac River bank to Mt. Vernon. Alexandria, Virginia street. Painting of mother, books on desk, bible opened. 03:25:12 Cu letter from Army; 1950s cadets at West Point. Painting of Lee as young soldier. 03:26:04 MS ext. Arlington Hall. Int. George Washington Parke Custus home & painting. Painting of daughter, wife of Robert E. Lee. Table setting. 03:26:36 Map of Virginia; simple map of eastern USA. 1846 overlay & barrier w/ Mexico where Lee served. 03:27:25 1852 superimposed over West Point. CU Uncle Tom’s Cabin book cover. Map w/ boundary of abolitionist north & southern slave states. 03:28:11 Stratford Hall (?) from across fields w/ superimposed quote from Lee. Other over footage of blacks picking cotton. Map overlayed w/ flames. Painting of Lee, letter against dissolution of Union. Map w/ southern states dropping during succession. Maps. 03:31:02 Paintings of Civil War troops & officers, fighting. Maps w/ animation for battle locations. Paintings. Map w/ animated route to Gettysburg. Paintings. Common Prayer Book. Letter w/ signature. Mess kit. 03:33:35 Staged footage of Confederate soldiers by tent & fire. White horse head into frame & soldiers stand & salute, wounded w/ bandages. 03:34:33 Plaque. Painting. Confederate flag. 03:34:51 Grounds of Washington College; large home exterior & interior. Painting of elderly Robert E. Lee after he was President of college. Students on campus & visiting crypt w/ carved stone funeral statue. The End. Biography; Biographical Film; Boring; 1950s Educational Film; Military General; Colonial Style; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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