VACHEL LINDSAY AND LINCOLN'S SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS - 1977
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For licensing inquiries please contact Historic Films Archive (www.historicfilms.com / [email protected]) VACHEL LINDSAY'S SPRINGFIELD: PAN OLD SUBURBAN RESIDENTIAL HOMES WITH PORCHES IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. HOME OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND POET, VACHEL LINDSAY. 00:47:16 CU "A. LINCOLN OFFICE AND COURT", WRITTEN ACROSS ENTRANCE TO OLD BRICK AND STONE BLOCK LONG BUILDING IN SPRINGFIELD WHERE LINCOLN PUT OUT A SHINGLE, PRACTICED LAW. STATE CAPITAL WHERE LINCOLN SERVED IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IS SEEN ACROSS STREET, FROM OFFICE WINDOW. CAPITAL BUILDING. 00:47:42 BUST SCULPTURE OF VACHEL LINDSAY, POET, ARTIST, DREAMER OF AMERICAN DREAM. LINCOLN MADE DEEP IMPRESSION ON LINDSAY THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. 00:48:00 ZOOM IN ON LINDSAY'S HOME, AS NARRATOR QUOTES FROM 1922 LINDSAY WRITINGS ABOUT HIS LIFE. PAN OF INSIDE HOUSE WITH ITS OAK STAIRWAYS, MOULDINGS, WOOD FLOORS, FURNISHINGS. ZOOM IN ON OLD CHANDELIER. HOME WAS BOUGHT FROM MRS. C. M. SMITH, SISTER TO LINCOLN. 'PARTIES WERE GIVEN TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN THERE" QUOTED LINDSAY. 00:48:43 PAN MONTAGE OF QUAINT OLD HOME OF JOHNSON LINDSAY, UNCLE TO VACHEL. LOCATED NEXT DOOR TO LINCOLN'S HOME. PAN OF LILAC BUSH, USED AS CHRISTMAS TREE IN SHADOW OF LINCOLN'S HOME. PAN SHUTTERED WINDOWS, IRON BALCONY RAILING ON UPPER PORCH. 00:49:03 CU SIGN ON LAWN, "HOME OF ILLINOIS POET NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY, 1879 - 1931". YOUNG VOLUNTEERS OF SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL, CLEAN AND CULTIVATE LAWN AND GROUNDS OF HOME. PAN OF STAINED GLASS WINDOW. 00:49:34 CU FACE OF BESPECTACLED TEENAGE BOY READING LINDSAY'S POETRY IN LINDSAY'S LIVING ROOM. PAN TO TEENAGE GIRL, ELDERLY ELIZABETH GRAHAM, SITTING, LISTENING. GRAHAM TELLS WHY SHE LIKED POETRY, GESTURING WITH HER HANDS. 00:49:55 GRAHAM, FORMER TEACHER OF ENGLISH AT SPRINGFIELD HIGH, SITS, SPEAKS TO GROUP OF YOUNG ADULTS, TEENS, SPEAKS. DETERMINED TO KEEP UP LINDSAY'S WORK IN FINDING OUT, SOUNDING OUT, ABOUT WONDERS OF SPRINGFIELD. SHE DEVOTES ALL TIME TO PRESERVE WORKS, LEGACY OF LINDSAY, AS WELL AS HIS HOME. 00:50:18 DENNIS KEMP, PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE AT SAGALON STATE COLLEGE, SITS IN LIVING ROOM, CHATS WITH MRS. GRAHAM. HE IS COMPILING BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COMPLETE WORKS OF LINDSAY. MRS. GRAHAM IS IMPORTANT SOURCE FOR KEMP. 00:50:41 CITIZENS GATHER IN LINDSAY LIVING ROOM, MAN RECITES HIS POETRY, AS OTHERS SIT IN CIRCLE, LISTEN. CU PAN TO EACH PERSON IN ROOM. NARRATOR RECITES LINDSAY POETRY AS CAMERA PANS BUSHES, HOME, FURNISHINGS IN COURT HOUSE, LEGISLATURE, OLD OFFICE DESK WITH QUILL PEN IN INK WELL, CANDLE, SEAT, WHICH LINCOLN ONCE USED, LIVED. 00:52:15 PAN STATUE OF LINCOLN STANDING, HUGE BUST OF LINCOLN ALONGSIDE STATUE.
