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The Society for Visual Education
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ingenious double-exposure the dreamJimmy leaves the scene with Uncle Sam, while the real Jimmy still sleeps under the tree.
The two look first into a room where three women, garbed in quaint Colonial dress, are sewing white stars in an unfamiliar circular arrangement upon a field of blue. Uncle Sam explains the significance of the thirteen stars and stripes, and tells the boy that in 1818 Congress provided for a new star for each new state, to be added to the flag on the Fourth of July following its admission to the Union. As the women hold up the finished banner, the face of George Washington appears as in a vision among the folds.
The scene shifts to a country roau. ''This, the 'Spirit of '76,' was the inspiration of that glorious emblem" — and from a cloud of smoke emerge the battered figures of Willard's well-known painting. With fife and drums a-playing, the three patriots march resolutely past and out of the picture.
Uncle Sam and the boy now stand on the shore, gazing out over the water, where is visualized a scene on the forward deck of a frigate. Attended by a sailor, a dying captain points to the flag flying challengingly from the mast-head, while the words he gasps slowly take form upon the screen — "Don't give U[j the ship!" Says Uncle Sam: "The 'Spirit of 1812,' my boy, shone forth in Captain Lawrence's last words as he lay mortally wounded on board the Chesapeake. They form the motto of our navy today."
Up the bank of a peaceful little stream crawls a spent form in gray, while along the path stumbles another wounded man wearing the Union blue. As the soldiers struggle and fall, the boy hears of the "Spirit of '61," aroused by civil strife, when brother fought brother. Suddenly there stands before us Abraham Lincoln — "homely hero born of star and sod." As he speaks, the familiar words of his unforgettable address at Gettysburg — "A new nation, conceived in liberty'' — shape themselves against the trees behind. These words fade out and the fig(Conclucled on Page 54)
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Figure 6
The Man of the Ages speaks at
Gettysburg
Figure 7 The charge up San Juan Hill
Figure 8 His lesson learned