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This clip contains some shots inside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, done up to look like the eighteenth century as the VO talks about Benjamin Franklin. MS of desks with candles, quills, and books atop. Zoom in on a document on one of the tables, dissolve to the Declaration of Independence. Dissolve to a still of Benjamin Franklin in a painting. Zoom out MS of a chair, cut to a table with books on top at the State House. Cut to other shots of the desks and chairs in the room, some with slow zooms and pans. Wavy transition as the VO starts to discuss Ben Franklin’s childhood, there is MS of the Old South Meeting House in Boston on Milk Street with a tilt down to a lantern outside of it.