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Norman Rockwell's World: An American Dream.


A dreamer indeed, Norman Rockwell paintings portray

American life at its best. Born in New York City in 1894 back

when horse and buggy was the main transportation, along with the

trolleys that filled the streets. Fun in those days was simple,

a picnic in the park, play baseball in the street, or shoot

marbles. His heroes when he was a kid were all illustrators.

When Norman Rockwell went to work doing covers for the

Saturday Evening Post his career took off, as the nation began

to see his work regularly, his popularity boomed. Not bad for a

kid from New York City that dropped out of high school. At the

time of this film 1987 Norman Rockwell had already lived through


World war's I and II, the Korean conflict, Vietnam. Also

Lindberg's first flight and the First flight to the moon.

Norman Rockwell's paintings are a history of American

culture. He painted things common to all......

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