The Bill of Rights
1939-08-19 | 21 minutes
Plot Summary
This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.
Cast
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Ted OsborneJames Madison
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Moroni OlsenRoyal Governor Dunmore
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Leonard MudieMoreland
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Vernon SteeleThomas Jefferson
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John HamiltonColonel George Mason
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Tom ChattertonRichard Henry Lee
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Sidney BraceyColonist
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Creighton HaleNew York Congressman
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John HarronCarter
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William HopperCourier
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Olaf HyttenKing George III
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Boyd IrwinCaptain Collins
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Glenn LanganNorth Carolina Congressman
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John LitelPatrick Henry
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Jack MowerVirginia Congressman
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John RidgelyMassachusetts Congressman
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Russell SimpsonFrontiersman
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