![]() Film has made it possible for us to see our century as no other has ever been seen. Just imagine that in archives and vaults the world over are millions of feet of film, pictures of men and women, moments and events frozen forever before the lens - a vast album of heroes and common folk sinners and villains the wonders, cruelties and disasters of our time. The 20 th century and the camera grew up together, with results marvelous and mixed. The exuberance of youth was ours, as was the youthful notion that for us, the colors would never fade.īill Moyers: (STUDIO) I’m Bill Moyers. ![]() We launched this new century - a nation thrilled by new inventions, new ideas, new possibilities. At the beginning of the 20 th century, our century, motion pictures were a brand new thing - a magic lantern in which we could catch glimpses of ourselves as we were - in action and unretouched. ![]() With Roosevelt biographer, David McCullough, at TR’s summer home at Oyster Bay, Long Island, Bill Moyers explores Roosevelt’s brief and golden career which ended after World War I.īill Moyers: (V/O) This is the mutoscope - a kind of oversized flip-card system on which sequential pictures can be arranged. ![]() ![]() Theodore Roosevelt - cowboy, soldier, explorer, hunter, historian, reformer, naturalist and president of the United States - exuberantly led America into the 20 th Century. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |