Liberty's kids [videorecording] : the complete series / created by Kevin O'Donnell, Michael Maliani ; directed by Judy Reilly ; producer, Kaaren Brown ; animation produced by Hong Ying Universe Company, Ltd.
Title from container and disc labels. Walter Cronkite, Kathleen Barr, Reo Jones, Chris Lundquist, Kevin Williams; and, variously, Annette Bening, Warren Buffett, Aaron Carter, Billy Crystal, Michael Douglas, Whoopi Goldberg, Dustin Hoffman, Kayla, Yolanda King, Mario Kreutzberger, Liam Neeson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Maria Shriver, Sylvester Stallone, Ben Stiller, Michael York. Originally produced for television in 2002. Includes booklet with episode guides and chronology (39 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.) and poster (60 x 37 cm. folded to 18.5 x 12 cm). Special features: original pencil test : Midnight ride, Benjamin Franklin's newsbytes, Continental cartoons, Now and then (featurettes), Mystery guest game, A look back at Liberty's kids with the creators.
Contents:
disc 1: The Boston Tea Party / written by Doug McIntyre -- The Intolerable Acts / written by Doug McIntyre -- United we stand / written by Larry B. Williams -- Liberty or death / written by Doug McIntyre -- Midnight ride / written by Cliff MacGillivray & Kelly Ward -- The shot heard round the world / written by Cliff MacGillivray & Kelly Ward -- Green Mountain Boys / written by Jay Abramowitz -- disc 2: The Second Continental Congress / written by Larry B. Williams -- Bunker Hill / written by Robby London and Jim Fisher & Jim Staahl -- Washington takes command / written by Bill Dial -- Postmaster General Franklin / written by Jim McGrath -- Common sense / written by Marc and Elaine Zicree -- The first Fourth of July / written by Jim McGrath -- New York, New York / written by Bill Dial -- disc 3: The turtle / written by Brooks Wachtel -- One life to lose / written by Jay Abramowitz -- Captain Molly / written by Cliff MacGillivray & Kelly Ward -- American crisis / written by Marc and Elaine Zicree -- Across the Delaware / written by Jim McGrath -- An American in Paris / written by Bruce Franklin Singer -- disc 4: Sybil Ludington / written by Jay Abramowitz -- Lafayette arrives / written by Michael A. Medlock -- The Hessians are coming / written by Jim Fisher & Jim Staahl -- Valley Forge / written by Marc and Elaine Zicree -- Allies at last / written by Bruce Franklin Singer -- Honor and compromise / written by Cliff MacGillivray & Kelly Ward -- The new frontier / written by Jay Abramowitz -- disc 5: Not yet begun to fight / written by Brooks Wachtel -- The great Galvez / written by Paul Diamond -- In praise of Ben / written by Phil Harnage -- Bostonians / written by Bruce Franklin Singer -- Benedict Arnold / written by Jim Fisher & Jim Staahl -- Conflict in the South / written by Cliff MacGillivray & Kell[y] Ward -- Deborah Samson : soldier of the Revolution / written by Jim Fisher & Jim Staahl -- disc 6: James Armistead / written by Jay Abramowitz -- Yorktown / written by Jay Abramowitz -- Born free and equal / written by Jay Abramowitz -- The man who wouldn't be king / written by Bruce Franklin Singer -- Going home / written by Jay Abramowitz -- We the people / written by Bruce Franklin Singer.
Summary:
Set in late-18th-century America, tells the story of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of Benjamin Franklin's two teenage apprentice reporters; animated.
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