Johnny Tremain, The Sons of Liberty - Disney, 1957

[@JesseNewberry]

A great movie from back when Disney actually cared about America.

[@kathrynmolesa1641]

I learned to love history from watching Disney movies.

[@hebneh]

Whatever grade it was when I read "Johnny Tremaine", we also watched this movie -around 1965. This fairly catchy song is all I remember, over 50 years later. It's awfully wonderful that everyone in this impromptu procession knows the words to this song and can stirringly sing it in perfect unison, especially knowing when to go into the different lyrics of the last verse and all end at the same time.

[@nreynasanchez]

This is a better Disney movie than all those others -_-

[@timcarroll8052]

Saw this in third grade about 31 years ago. Just Watched Sons of Liberty on History channel. This brings back great memories of my childhood. I WAS so proud of the United States. Years later i wish it was the same but time changes. But every person in America is blessed for the Sons of Liberty! Thank you Sam Adams, Paul Revere, and John Hancock and the others who created the greatest experiment of all time. Leading to the greatest country of all time!

[@DanConnieCarroll]

This is great. Love it,

[@CH67guy1]

I last saw this in about 1979, in middle school. It’s exactly as I remember.

[@SabrinaBobenrieth-qy9ze]

I love it

[@mmarston332]

Thanks for uploading this song!

[@calebjared75]

I miss this Disney😪

[@007romryan]

They have a liberty tree in Disney land's Colonial America, and have 13 lanterns hanging from it. Also if you look around, one of the buildings 2nd story windows has two lanterns in it. Nice little easter eggs to find there.

[@moiraruth3190]

I

[@SabrinaBobenrieth-qy9ze]

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[@miguelperez7199]

I watched this in my class Friday

[@Toph_TheUnblind]

Thanksgiving 7th grade history teacher showing me this movie

[@carausiuscaesar5672]

Here in Canada we still bless sweet King George.The American sons of liberty invaded Canada in 1775-1776 but got a very cold reception.Too much snow and ice and gun powder smoke for them!Do not remember this show on tv in Canada.

[@joeman301]

it was a good movie to

[@jjob123next8]

I love the movie and I which it in soshle studys

[@debbie12345able]

the liberty tree!

[@stevepaul6955]

The girl on Johnny Tremain's right at 1:42 is Walt Disney's daughter Sharon.

[@stevepaul6955]

@Ice Cream Trucks, Airplanes, and More You're right. I stand corrected.

[@debbie12345able]

And we are the sons yes we are the sons the sons of liberty

[@joeman301]

I remember this movie to bad they don't have the whole thing on here

[@mixmaster3028]

Too bad they don’t have this version on Spotify or iTunes

[@Thoralmir]

"Always pay what they're asking boys, always pay the Tyrant's Fee" Hint: They don't mean payment as in gold and silver, but steel and lead, if you catch my drift. ;)

[@celemirelewen]

Methinks it's pretty obvious what your drift is, and I couldn't agree more. Would that the American people had the courage to do it again. God only knows we need it.

[@Thoralmir]

Celemir Elewen I agree absolutely! Too bad that my generation is too vapid and selfish to do so.

[@celemirelewen]

Exactly! We've become a nation of slouches, too cowardly or just downright lazy to do what needs to be done. I think I'm the only teenager who's trying to stir up a Revolution, and it's rather discouraging to know I won't succeed. We could easily fix this country if we just got down to it and were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to do so.

[@Thoralmir]

Well, Obama pushing up the minimum drinking age to 25 should help us halfway. :P

[@Themousecastle]

I posted this video clips to relive a favorite movie memory from my childhood, not to stir up a political debate. I respectfully ask that you limit your comments to the movie itself. There are plenty of other places on the Internet to spout politics.

[@mmarston332]

The US is turning 240 this year!

[@nitdiver5]

The US stopped being a nation in 1913 with the creation of the illegal Federal Reserve Bank. It has since been a vassal to the Vatican.

[@ChickSage]

+nitdiver5 Vassal to the Vatican? Please, elaborate.

[@nitdiver5]

Chick Sage: To explain it in any meaningful way would take a long time. The Vatican runs the central banking system to all nation-states and the secret societies and Islam. Ours is called the Federal Reserve Bank. Many people are aware that it is owned and operated by the Rothschild family. Benjamin Franklin said the primary reason for the War of Independence was to prevent the Rothschilds from taking over as they had already done in Europe (watch the documentary titled "The Money Masters). Fewer people are aware that the Rothschilds answer to the Vatican. The quickest way to see this link is to go onto Google images and type in "Catholic all seeing eye." You will see the same symbol of a pyramid, eye, and sunburst that has been on the back of the Federal Reserve Note (i.e. dollar) since 1935 is all over the Catholic Church and Vatican and has been for centuries. This single all-seeing eye represents Lucifer. Those in and associated with the illuminati use symbols to communicate. In John 8 Jesus said, "I am the light of the world..." Lucifer wants to be worshiped so he becomes an imitation light of the world. The sun, the "light of the world" becomes his symbol. It is Lucifer's secret knowledge (occult) that is the source of illumination to the illuminati. So if you do a study on religious (i.e. pagan) sun symbols you will find that almost everything in the Vatican is a sun symbol. The Eucharist is in the shape of a sun disc. The Monstrance is the shape of a sun burst. Any cross that has a circle on it is sun worship. Any cross that flares out on the ends is a sun cross. The sun is usually shown as a disc like behind the heads of subjects in Catholic art. Or it is shown as a sun burst like a monstrance or on the back of the dollar. Or as a star. Stars can be 3, 4, 5, 6, or 8 sided (triskelion, sun cross, pentagram, Star of David (so-called), and I'm not sure if an 8 sided star has a name. But once you familiarize yourself with these symbols and their meaning you will see it in logos and emblems of governments, corporations, nonprofits, churches and so on. Look up the cover for the book "Morals and Dogma" and you will see the same symbols. Then look up the emblem for EMERCOM the Russian military and their version of FEMA. They are practically identical and that is not by mistake. Hope that helps.

[@ChickSage]

+nitdiver5 Octagram

[@kellyoleary3607]

@@nitdiver5 What are you smoking?

[@leandrogeannaccinigimenez3531]

Muito legal O início da Revolução Americana

[@michellesaathoff869]

me too

[@SabrinaBobenrieth-qy9ze]

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[@nreynasanchez]

My favorite character was Paul revere

[@Rykoa]

I saw this in 5th grade, lol

[@debbie12345able]

the girl was one of the daughters of liberty

[@progressiverebel]

A teaching moment I think... Ester Forbes wrote the Book Paul Revere & The World He Lived In. It was rewarded with a Pulitzer Prize In History.(Ester wrote a children's book Johnny Tremain.. Newberry Awards Winner. Best Childrens book as I remember. . I have always loved the song... but check out page 97/. The Liberty Tree on that day, August 14 mades its professional debut. It had been planted some hundrend and twenty years before and was the largest of a group of elms standing in an enclosure at the present corner of Washington and Essex street..The ground under these elms gave ample room for thousands to gather and was known as Libety Hall..(That exprression, come into Liberty Hall and call the cat a bastard....The Liberty Tree was chopped down and used for firewood by British Troops as they occupied Boston. Noitce how the song writers got it all wrong... IT WAS A TALL ELM TREE...Not a tall oak tree... Its nice to learn accurate history...Check out the book by Ester its a must read... My favorite character in Old Boston was and is... the Reverend Mather Byles... In the movied the Patriot by Mel Gibson.. they use a quote from old Mather Byles (the ObservaTory Himself... About 3,000 Tyrants Marchine not a mile away or one Tyrant (The King) 3,000 miles aways... God Love You Mather Byles... wherever you are...and your two Spinster daughters...

[@jaclynirwin6573]

***** They are singing "Tall old tree and a strong old tree" not oak tree

[@progressiverebel]

***** They seem to sing in two verses... They sing ... Tall Oak Tree and a strong Old Tree.. The second verse is clear and the first one is very clear in the second singing... Love Ester Forbes...I have some distant cousins... (The Adams) cousin (John and Sam) who are related to my Pilgrim Ancestors.. who were in the demonstrations. Yes they say Tall; Oak Tree then Tall Old,,, We were born forever Free...

[@cakelady1142]

@jaclynirwin6573... Agreed. As remembered from my childhood until now, listening closely several times, they sing "old" every time, every stanza. What I loved most is bursting with idealistic patriotic pride in this ultimate rendition. I'd love to see symbolic plantings of new Liberty Trees across the nation, to "stand against all tyranny." Surely we don't need another Sept 11 to bring us back to civil unity & patriotic pride. We are so fortunate to call the USA home!

[@sce2aux464]

"The Americans have tarred and feathered your subjects, plundered your merchants, burnt your ships, denied all obedience to your laws and authority; yet so clement and so long forbearing has our conduct been that it is incumbent on us now to take a different course. Whatever may be the consequences, we must risk something; if we do not, all is over." - PM Lord North, to the House of Commons, April 22, 1774

[@lorddonut3000]

Let me guess you're British

[@sce2aux464]

lorddonut3000 Nope, just summing up what the reaction was in Parliament.

[@progressiverebel]

SCE2AUX2 My ancestor Alexander Grant was sold into Chattel Slavery in the West Indies. along with 69 other men of Glenmoriston after Culloden.. We Americans remember....

[@Thoralmir]

+SCE2AUX2 Notice how they refer to "The Americans", already treating us as if we were a separate people apart from subjects of the British Crown.

[@sce2aux464]

lorddonut3000 As a matter of fact, I'm American. I included this to point out that there was no shortage of contempt for us in Parliment as well as Buckingham.

[@petermoriarty6309]

everyone is a bass.

[@marksmith6785]

It's too bad Johnny Tremain went to California and opened the Bates Motel.

[@debbie12345able]

December 16 1773 Boston tea party

[@jeannettejaquish7683]

The book was much more interesting, getting into Johnny's history and personality and his observations and the emotional conflict of two armies of good men having to kill each other. This is OK as Disney movies go.

[@Thoralmir]

Yeah, but the movie is better for ten-year-olds to comprehend. :P

[@Thoralmir]

Tyler Smith Wow, student comprehension must've slipped since I was in school, since I saw this in 5th Grade with no explanations at all.

[@littleraeofsunshine]

It was a terrible adaptation, especially compared to Pollyanna. Love the book though.

[@joellekawaii888]

is that girl a son to? thats what i said when we watched this movie in social studies

[@theplaza8307]

God bless America and our troops and our country and our president and Nation and may god bless those in Florida fighting hurricane Gordon.

[@gregoryss100]

like if u saw a young Tony from West Side Story!

[@Thoralmir]

Sad fact: After the British eventually drove the Patriots out and a very harsh winter set in, the Redcoats got their vengeance by chopping up the Liberty Tree for firewood.

[@billhuber2964]

That's ok. We just planted another one ! Hooyah !!!

[@waterskippers]

Watch Priscilla's hair carefully. It's very distracting how often her hat appears and disappears.

[@ForgottenHonor0]

That's a different girl.

[@racermac1988]

Just now noticed that, along with the random appearing and disappearing 2nd girl... Plus the change in Johnny's make up. That's what happened a lot back in the 50s when the editors are cutting film in dark rooms trying to match cuts and largely not knowing what they had until the final cut... Didn't really have video tape playback then... Hence why movies back then have more of a Broadway type of acting with longer camera shots of scenes instead of "quick cuts"

[@Cipher6i8]

***** we also watched it today and I hated the movie

[@DauntingRedemption]

+TheEnderTaz25 Haters gonna hate.

[@slworking2]

This isn't woke enough. 🤣🤣

[@49er369]

This seems really offensive....

[@MsMalinka11]

You’re poor thing. Lemme give you a tissue to cry into

[@draggedgfk1686]

Sucks