Corbit-Sharp House, The

Genre: Educational

Creator: Van Dyke Willard

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: In 1772, a Quaker tanner, William Corbit, built a Georgian style house at Cantwell's Bridge (now Odessa), Delaware. This jewel of 18th century architecture is explored. Starting in Philadelphia in Corbit's time, moving to the "pocket of the past", that is Odessa, and finally through the house itself, room by richly filled room, history is viewed. With a superb musical score and no costumed actors, the film brings to life a house as typical of America as the log cabin of the frontier. Based on John A.H. Sweeney's book, "Grandeur on the Appoquinimink". "...in a man's house is the image of the man himself." 16mm film in excellent condition, color, sound, complete, 600', a film by Wheaton Galentine, music by Irwin Bazelon, 1965


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