Is Anybody There?

A montage and visual poem on American freedom and the progress ideals can bring. Accompanied by the song "Is Anybody There?" sung by William Daniels and featured in the musical 1776, by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone. Directed By Peter Hunt

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Is
• Anybody
• There
• 1776
• John
• Adams
• William
• Daniels
• Independence
• Liberty
• Service
• Sacrifice
• Congress
• Senate
• Supreme
• Court
• Executive
• Glory
• Giamatti
• Wilkinson
• Delaware
• crossing
• Homestead
• King
• Towers
• Purgatory
• gloom
• distress
• Francis
• Scott
• Key
• American
• soldier
• chamber
• politicians
• immigrants

[Flowbee79]

Go Obama

[blondbmshll04]

you can picture John McCain singing this about oil indepedance

[Flowbee79]

Not really. McCain is not exactly the guy I see when listening to this, but rather John Adams himself or rather the spirit he espoused for his countrymen through his work, brilliance, and character. Kind of like a guiding spirit overseeing the United States or rather the American of today, man or woman.

[Flowbee79]

Anyway, yeah, at the behest of someone in the Nixon Administration or someone who was friendly towards the Administration, the TV channel that was showing the movie nixed that scene, because Nixon saw the parellels between conservatives then and conservatives of his time, that it mocked his base. Nixon worked for the HUAAC, so attacking a piece of art just on its content, rather than just changing the channel, was a natural reaction for him. I am glad he at least saw the parallels.

[rcibnmd]

Did you see the complete version on AMC on July 4th? I didn't realize so much of the movie was cut out after Nixon's screening.

I always wondered why 'Cool Cool Considerate Men' was on the soundtrack but not in the movie.

I was reading today how Salt Peter is actually made. It's a disgusting process:

Gather together a pile of cow dung and drain urine over it for a year, collect the dried crystals and refine it to gunpowder.(And John was complaining about finding a few "pins" haha) Rich

[Flowbee79]

Yeah, I've seen the complete movie version about 5 times. I love that movie. Oddly enough, I am not a fan other the "Cool Cool Considerate Men" scene anyway. I think it's a little unfair to say that Dickinson and all his ney-sayers were motivate solely by their wallets. Dickinson made a respectable argument in real-life. He thought the Mother Country had over-stepped her bounds, but he wanted alterations not seperations. He did actually command a unit of Am. troops after the Declaration.

[ZeitgeistWI]

The only patriots left in our nation are not politicians or Democrats or Republicans or from the left or the right, they are the people of our nation. Not hyphenated Americans but AMERICANS joined in one struggle to preserve our union and the ideals that founded our nation. If you can go without labelling yourself as anything other than American, you too can be a patriot and God knows, we need patriots now. Protect our liberties, protect freedom and our nation be an American again!

[Pfisiar22]

I think most Republicans need a refresher course on what America is.

For most of them, I think, America exist only to serve Christian fundamentalists.

[netcinema]

Oh No! A Zeitgeist!!! Ruuuunnn!

[warblerab]

"Does anybody see what I see?" Yes Mr. Adams, I do!

[postaldragon123]

OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!

[CassandraMotou]

mchngwa63: True, but it still applies today, does it not? I know many, on both sides of the proverbial fence, who seem to have lost the ideals that inspired this song and others. John Adams was right when he said that our government would tear itself to pieces with partisanship.

Flowbee79: Fantastic montage, this. Well done.

[Flowbee79]

You're right

[chachi09321]

GO REPUBLICANS