"Victory or Death"- Washington Crossing the Delaware

On December 25, 1776, George Washington lead a surprise attack on the British and Hessians in Trenton, New Jersey, turning the Revolutionary War back to the favor of the colonial Americans.

I am the official videographer for Washington Crossing Historic Park, and I got to cross over for free. This is a montage of some of the footage I took during the day, and the official crossing will take place on Christmas- this footage is from the rehearsal.

Please note: This is made with footage I compiled while making a documentary for them. In the documentary, catching glimpses of spectators, other photographers, etc, wasn't a problem. I did my best with the footage I had, but you can spot a couple anachronisms in this (i.e. the Washington Bridge, Staff shirts...).

Filmed and Edited by Tom Lynskey
George Washington played by John Godzieba

http://www.youtube.com/washingtoncrossing1

Music- Final Cut Pro, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (less than 30 seconds used for a non-profit film- free-use)

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[Master22RC]

At the end I thought it would say "coming soon... to a theatre near you" lol

[Zdragonball12]

one kid in a war why a kid ones to be in a war

[uzijohn]

@ehhdatzbunk,

Most environmentalists have their hearts in the right places, but these organizations have been infiltrated by people with other agendas.

A few are anti-progress extremists, for others it’s a good paying steady job, but the worst are those with plans to become RICH and POWERFUL, carpetbaggers like Al Gore appear throughout history.

[ehhdatzbunk]

@uzijohn Bunk!

[a55kiker]

The army looks pretty clean to have been continuously hit in the mouth by the British and Hessians for the last six months. The crossing was a big ordeal, but the march to Trenton in the night would have been the more trying part of the ordeal if you ask me.

[uzijohn]

@Kaesoism,

Thank you, glad to see I'm not alone

[Kaesoism]

@uzijohn : Omg, I can't believe someone else knows this. I love you.

[wizard37773]

like if you saw the canadian next to the cannon

[uzijohn]

This reenactment records a historically overlooked fact, this river has no ice and old timers who pre-date the industrial revolution have never seen it ice-up!!!

Yet in Washington’s day it was choked with ice, that’s because the earth has been slowly warming, even before man was a factor, temperatures change is a normal cycle; it increased and decreased as the "Little Ice Age" arrived and retracted.

BUT that won’t enrich the “Carbon Credit Scammers” Gore & Soro$ will it?

[MetalGrim93]

@Dirtboy101 for real man me too