This clip contains drawings of early printing presses, people, and a reenactment of Benjamin Franklin. Begins with drawing of a man working a printing press. Dissolves to drawing of a man reading by candlelight. Cuts to drawing of men looking at a paper, a boy in the back smiles. Dissolves to an article written by Franklin under the pseudonym, ‘Silence Dogood’. Dissolve to front page of ‘The New-England Courant’. Cuts to various black and white CU of men’s and women’s faces. Dissolve to painting of Philadelphia in the 1700s. Dissolve to B&W drawing of a man at a printing press. Dissolve to painting of an early ship. Dissolve to B&W drawing of men at a printing house. Dissolve to CU of ‘The Pennsylvania Gazette’ dated October 2, 1729. Dissolve to a painting of Franklin writing with a quill. Goes back to reenactment of Benjamin Franklin, a shot of the ‘Poor Richard’s Almanac of 1733’ visible as Franklin talks to a boy.