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Benjamin Franklin Program
Video Clip List
Clip # Start Time End Time Description
1 5:23 8:33 Description of newspaper business Watch | Back to Lesson
2 8:53 9:17 Information about Libel in the 18th century
3 10:45 11:09 Relationship with son William Franklin
4 11:14 14:55 Franklin's Almanac Watch | Back to Lesson
5 18:24 18:50 Meaning of Philosophy in the 18th century
6 19:30 19:50 Franklin's civic initiatives
7 22:21 24:22 Lewis and Clark's journals
8 24:23 26:16 Thomas Paine's letter to George Washington
9 26:19 27:30 Paine's writings and cartoons
10 27:43 28:16 Franklin's belief in God
11 29:12 29:31 Franklin and views on the publishing technology, including the internet
12 29:39 30:10 Franklin's printing beginnings
13 31:33 32:49 Franklin as the youngest son, relationship with father
14 32:57 33:37 Franklin inventing the autobiography
15 34:43 35:51 Franklin's relationship with John Adams
16 36:17 36:56 Franklin's printing business
17 37:44 39:36 George Webb's poem
18 40:10 41:09 Astrology in Almanacks
19 42:10 42:49 Franklin predicts competitor's death
20 43:47 45:01 Franklin's political party affiliation
21 45:44 46:57 Visual of Franklin's grandfather clock
22 47:00 48:59 Religious texts Franklin published
23 49:46 50:12 Franklin's printing press Watch | Back to Lesson
24 50:13 50:49 Franklin as a freemason
25 51:26 53:00 Franklin gives his papers to Thomas Jefferson
26 53:15 54:00 Franklin and Jefferson's relationship
27 54:03 56:16 Franklin's writing under a pseudonym
28 56:20 57:33 Treaty and document with Ohio American Indian nations Watch | Back to Lesson
29 57:35 59:37 French massacre Native Americans in Lancaster County
30 1:02:30 1:03:27 Franklin's view on higher education and idea for University of Pennsylvania
31 1:06:20 1:07:15 Franklin's presidency of society
32 1:07:16 1:08:44 Interest in water, swimming, and sailing
33 1:08:45 1:10:55 Franklin's diet
35 1:12:53 1:14:52 Franklin's reputation as a "ladies man" Watch | Back to Lesson
36 1:14:53 1:16:54 Wife Deborah and children
37 1:17:01 1:17:25 Franklin's formal schooling
38 1:25:51 1:27:05 Franklin's views on 18th century Pennsylvania's politics
39 1:27:04 1:29:11 Franlin's views on the British empire
40 1:29:39 1:31:18 Franklin's manuscripts
41 1:31:46 1:32:56 Quaker influence
42 1:33:00 1:35:56 Project of moral perfection
43 1:35:57 1:37:16 Pride, temperance
44 1:37:34 1:40:20 Franklin made to leave England; breaks from England; letter controversy
45 1:40:21 1:43:42 Inventions
46 1:45:15 1:49:03 Franklin and Independence Hall Watch | Back to Lesson
47 1:50:04 1:50:11 Franklin's belief in God
48 1:50:12 1:52:11 Sons of Liberty
49 1:52:36 1:54:45 Travelling as he got older
50 1:54:46 1:58:44 Minature of Louis XVI
51 1:59:25 2:01:13 Experiments inventions Watch | Back to Lesson
52 2:02:34 2:03:28 Frankiln and prayer
53 02:03:40 02:04:34 Stove and attitude towards money Watch | Back to Lesson
54 02:05:29 02:06:10 Anti-Semitism
55 02:06:30 02:10:26 Position on slavery
56 02:10:27 02:11:26 Medallion against slavery
57 02:12:16 02:13:54 Lending library
58 2:14:49 2:15:50 Chamber pot with Franklin's picture
59 2:16:10 2:16:59 Creation by God or evolution
60 2:17:33 2:18:04 How did Franklin die
61 2:18:19 2:18:33 Picture of Franklin's Tombstone
62 2:18:34 2:18:57 Age when discovered electricity
63 2:20:20 2:21:39 View on Indians
64 2:22:07 2:22:42 Involvement with Masonic Fraternity
65 2:23:20 2:24:37 Franklin's view of American Revolution
66 2:25:06 2:26:19 First publishing franchise
67 2:26:21 2:27:08 Firefighters
68 02:27:14 02:29:25 Franklin's writings
69 02:30:11 02:30:37 How many languages Franklin knew
70 02:30:38 02:31:41 Story of rising sun

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