From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/21/25 14:47, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   > In article <10i8qtn$2n9rf$1@dont-email.me>,   
   > Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >> THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (2025): For THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, Ken   
   >> Burns did not have the benefit of photographs, or films of people   
   >> who lived through the Civil War and survived long enough to be   
   >> filmed. So he had to rely on paintings, and on "recreations", but   
   >> these recreations were very carefully filmed; most consist of legs   
   >> marching or charging, or arms and hands firing muskets, rifles,   
   >> and artillery. You never see the faces of the re-creators. This   
   >> makes the whole series less engaging than THE CIVIL WAR. (And of   
   >> course most of his other documentaries are set in more modern   
   >> times.) He has historians that provide some faces and movement,   
   >> but none are as charismatic as Shelby Foote or Barbara Fields or   
   >> Ed Bearss.   
   >   
   > [Hal Heydt]   
   >   
   > I don't suppose he included a Capt. William Hall and the ship he   
   > commanded, the Brig'o'War Notre Dame?   
      
   Given that Google and other searches turn up no references to a captain   
   of this name commanding a ship of this name at all, I doubt it was included.   
      
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   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn   
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