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Clip of Ben Franklin’s time in London as a young man, as well as his move back to Philadelphia and his successful printing endeavors. WS of Georgian exterior in Philadelphia, tilt down. Shots of the street, then cut to an engraving of a street in London. MS of a lion on top of a building in London. Shots of paintings and engravings of London. Rapid zoom out of a press, then more shots of paintings of London. Exterior shots of buildings in Philadelphia, then MS of his own printing press and bookstore in the city. CU of the Pennsylvania Gazette, then shot of the printing press inside the building. Zoom in of a gazette atop the table. CU of some of one of his pamphlets. Zoom in the CU of Pennsylvanian paper money. MS of Franklin’s copper plate press, one of his inventions. Dissolve to a shot of Poor Richard’s Almanac.