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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm Uncle Sam, that's who I am!
Been hiding out in a rock'n roll band!
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I'm Uncle Sam, that's who I am! (Original Post)
Blues Heron
Jul 2016
OP
Actually, this video was done by an animator comissioned by the Carter admin
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2016
#3
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)1. Love it. I always play this song on July 4.
Thanks.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)2. They even acknowledge
the eye in the pyramid, a sign of the Illuminati.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)3. Actually, this video was done by an animator comissioned by the Carter admin
for the bicentennial, IIRC.
It looks a lot like the animation for the Grateful Dead movie- not the same guy (see attribution post below)- but it's a different video.
Either way the guy who did this was definitely influenced by psychedelics, lol.
Here's the animated sequence from the GD Movie:
cojoel
(957 posts)5. not the same animators
200 was animated by Vincent Collins. The Grateful Dead Movie was animated by Gary Gutierrez.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)6. Thank you!
Both are great pieces of work.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)4. Hunter also wrote "Franklin's Tower" for the Bicentennial
I dual paean/plea to his nation and a message to his newborn son.
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/fauthrep.html
note that this song appeared in 1975,
the year after my son was born and the
year before the American Bicentennial.
Both facts are entirely relevant. The
allusion to the Liberty Bell and the
situation of the Philadelphia Congress
in the hometown of Ben Franklin has not
gone unnoticed by other commentators.
This song is a birthday wish both for
my son and for my country, each young
and subject to the winds of vicissitude.
Individual and collective freedom,
liberty, conscience, all that is conjured
by those concepts, is suggested
in the image of the tolling bell.
the year after my son was born and the
year before the American Bicentennial.
Both facts are entirely relevant. The
allusion to the Liberty Bell and the
situation of the Philadelphia Congress
in the hometown of Ben Franklin has not
gone unnoticed by other commentators.
This song is a birthday wish both for
my son and for my country, each young
and subject to the winds of vicissitude.
Individual and collective freedom,
liberty, conscience, all that is conjured
by those concepts, is suggested
in the image of the tolling bell.