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Introduction / Guidebook Groundbreaking "Cinema '76" - Illustrated Script with Audio Pavilion Guide Revised 3.02.07

Continental Insurance Pavilion. A war breaks out every day at the Fair . . . and you can join right in. It's the American Revolution at the Continental Insurance Pavilion. The American Revolution comes alive in a short musical cartoon, in dioramas and paintings, and in displays of arms and artifacts. View the Industrial Area Map Locate It: B14 Outside the pavilion, a life-sized tableau of The Spirit of '76 is suspended before a huge flag. On both sides of the viewing platform fly 13 battle flags of the Revolution. A PARADE OF HEROES. "Cinema '76" is screened continuously in a comfortable theater. Cartoons and songs tell of Revolutionary War heroes such as Henry Knox, Baron von Steuben, John Glover and his Marblehead fishermen (who saved George Washington's defeated force from Long Island and later rowed it to success at Trenton), and General Washington himself. BATTLES AND PAINTINGS. Dioramas show the winter encampment at Valley Forge; the Battles of Bennington, Fort Moultrie and Long Island; and John Paul Jones's ship Bonhomme Richard fighting Serapis rail-to-rail. Patriotic paintings commissioned by Continental Insurance are also on display. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book