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A bald eagle hatches from a red, white, and blue egg and flies through a pile-up of American pictures. American Gothic's farmers, the Capitol, the Golden Gate Bridge, Lincoln's cabin, and a bison pass under it. The Statue of Liberty, the Woodstock logo, the Liberty Bell, and Mount Rushmore are printed on top of one another. The three minutes are an impressionistic sprint through those symbols for the Bicentennial.
Cast & crew
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Vince Collins made the short on a Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Project Grant, a program started in October 1974. The United States Information Agency sponsored it and sent it out with six other films: An American Tune, Winter Count, Came to Here From Over There, Homespun, The Strangers, and Apache Bill.
Themes
Background
It was finished in 1975, a year before the Bicentennial celebrations of 1976, and issued by USIA as part of that tribute.
Music
The track is "So Much Alive," a stock instrumental from the Valentino music library.
Preservation
The U.S. National Archives holds the USIA short in its bicentennial holdings. The description used on the catalog record comes from that archive.
Notes
- The National Archives description is the source for the eagle, the egg, and the stacked icons.
- USIA was impressed enough to order six prints of Collins's other films, including Euphoria, which had won a Student Academy Award.
- The music is not an original score. It is the library cue "So Much Alive," from the Valentino catalog.
- Wikidata files the director as Vincent Collins. The film is credited to Vince Collins.
Scenes
- The eagle cracks out of a red, white, and blue egg.
- It passes the American Gothic farmers, the Capitol, and the Golden Gate Bridge.
- The Liberty Bell, Mount Rushmore, and the Woodstock logo occupy the same frames.
Also available
- Internet Archive (200)
- Wikimedia Commons (200 (1975) (raw version).webm)
- U.S. National Archives