Both the giant camera and the picture had their beginnings in a decision made four years ago by Walt Disney, famed creator of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, to produce a feature based on a well-known folk tale. âSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs,â a movie version of Grimmâs famous fairy tale filmed by the multiplane camera, is the result. Heretofore, movie cartoons have been series of photographs of drawings and paintings on oblong pieces of celluloid held in a single plane.
On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted to approve a Virginia motion calling for separation from Britain. The dramatic words of this resolution were added to the closing of the Declaration of Independence. Two days later, on July 4, the declaration was formally adopted by 12 colonies after minor revision. New York, the 13th colony, approved it on July 19. On August 2, the declaration was signed. The American War for Independence would last for five years.
The document was ultimately spoken to the British government, declaring the independence of the colonies from Britain and the creation of a new United States of America. Not all people were immediately in favor of it. Some of the colonists wanted to remain loyal to Britain, and the result was the American Revolutionary war, which raged on for 7 years until 1783, until Britain finally recognized the United States.