The absent host : Jefferson, 1781

Duration: 0:19:15

Genre: Adaptation | Biographical | Educational | Historical

Year Published: 1954

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians abridged clasroom version of a Cavalcade of America television series episode, "The Absent Host" (season 2, episode 19), which originally aired March 2, 1954 on ABC-TV. In this historical drama, Jack Jouett, a patriotic Virginian, risks his life to warn Thomas Jefferson that British soldiers are planning to capture him in a surprise attack on Monticello.

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