1967 “DISCOVERY ’67 THE CONSTITUTION” US HISTORY EDUCATIONAL FILM INDEPENDENCE HALL XD31172

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website In this episode of children’s program “Discovery ’67” hosts Bill Owen and Virginia Gibson teach us about the Constitutional Convention, which took place at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from May 25 to September 17, 1787. It is a Jules Power production in association with ABC News and Public Affairs. Presenter Bill Owen walks among cannons on a grassy field with co-host Virginia Gibson. 1:07 Exterior shots of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Owen and Gibson walk along the grounds. Then a cut to Gibson dressed in a reenactment as Sarah “Sally” Franklin Bache, Benjamin Franklin’s daughter, in the summer of 1787. She is tending to the garden, picking flowers as she talks to the camera. 2:27 Rembrandt Peale’s “Equestrian Portrait of George Washington.” 2:56 Drawings of early life in the United States, including one illustrating Shays’ R
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