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Supplemental Materials to Public Grant App for Financial Assistance for Five Flags Fund Prject_06.27.73MUG OEM 711111 FlUND June 27, 1973 National Endowment for the Humanities 806 15th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 RE: Five Flags Center Fund Dubuque, Iowa Gentlemen: In response to your recent request I am pleased to submit the attached material to supplement the Public Grant Appli- cation for financial assistance for the Five Flags Civic Cen- ter Fund Project. Two copies of this material are enclosed and thirteen addi- tional copies are being forwarded to your office under separate cover. We are prepared to further supplement this application to 'assure that all necessary data is made available for your consideration. Sincerely, Wayne A. Norman General Chairman WAN/GhTW/vt Enclosures EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Robc t 1 D,c,. Geo.gc A F Do old B. G�ur. F mnk T H n.l:e Mrs. F. Benlomin Mc ... l Wayne A. Nnrmar R obc,t W. Ronde Lo Vernc 1. Sch.ln R¢hord 1. Patlen Genf M. Writenbeq William Wood=: THE FIVE FLAGS CENTER SUPPLEMENTAL DOCUMENTATION Resume and Statement of Principal Consultant as to the nature of the Audio Visual Presentation. Resume of Personnel Assigned to the Audio Visual Presentation. Script of miniature multi -media presentation describing the form and content of the Audio Visual Presentation. Listing of Resources for the Historical Data for the Audio Visual Presentation. F Audio Visual Presentations PERSONNEL AUDIO VISUAL PRESENTATIONS ASSIGNED TO FIVE FLAGS CENTER PROJECT Audio Visual Presentations i _i A Division of "i he Des Moines Register and Tribune 715 Locust St eet -,A, Des Moines, Iowa 50304 ;,Area Code 515/234-8232 Roy C. Follett, General Manager Audio Visual Presentations A Division of the Register and Tribune Company A graduate of Iowa State University in Technical Journalism with additional education at the National Broadcasting Company -Columbia University and Harvard Business School. He was chosen outstanding advertising man of Iowa, 1964. He has been president of the Des Moines Advertising Club and is currently president of the 1200-member International Newspaper Promotion Association. His working career includes public relations and advertising directorships with Cherry - Burrell Corporation, Drake University and the Des.Moines Register and Tribune Company. His audio visual organization has won numerous awards for its multi -media presentations. He lectures on multi -media presentations to college and professional groups. . .the most recent to the National Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers at its national conference in April and to the International Newspaper Promotion Association's inter- national conference in May. AVP (Audio Visual Presentations) has produced dozens of multi -media presentations for such accounts as Meredith Publishing Company (publishers of Better Homes and Gardens), Massey Ferguson, Winnebago Industries, the Iowa BiCentennial, numerous advertising agencies and regional and local clients. The organization has traveled and shown major presentations in the past two years in Montreal, New York, Orlando (Florida), Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, and many smaller communities. The most recent presentation "Wind Song" which utilized a 74' portable screen, 16 slide projectors, a 16 mm motion picture projector and numerous programmers was shown this month at a national conference in San Diego. Similar presentations can be seen in San Francisco (the San Francisco Experience) and Disney World and in Montreal's former Expo '67 facility. Robert L. Barkley Cumming School of Art, 1948-51. Art Director Parrot Film Studio, Des Moines, Iowa, 1951-53. Artist -designer, movie trailer ads and animated TV commercials. Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, 1953- present. Artist, designer, illustrator. Named art director in 1962. Awards: Silver Award for best TV commercial, Art Directors Association of Iowa; Silver Award for best newspaper campaign, Art Directors As- sociation of .Iowa; First place, Best Newspaper Campaign, Des Moines Advertising Club; Best in Midwest, best newspaper campaign, International Newspaper Promotion Association. Thomas L. Weinman Drake University, 1955-59. Bachelor of Fine Arts Artist/Illustrator (Commercial Art). Delta Phi Delta art fraternity, vice president. KRNT-TV, Des Moines, Iowa, 1958-59, designer/ i lush trator. Office Outfitters, Des Moines, Iowa, 1962-65. Interior designer, dimensional layouts and perspective drawings. Iowa Employment Security Commission, Des Moines, 1965-70. Artist designer, educational materials. Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, 1970- present. Artist/illustrator, audio-visual presentations. Frank R. Davenport Washington University, Art School, St. Louis, Missouri Artist/I I I ustrator Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, 1940- present. Illustrator cartoonist. Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1940-present. Illustrator cartoonist. Currently illustrating golf series by Lee Trevino. Produced panel cartoon, "Open Season." Special commissions: Izaak Walton League, Notional Wildlife Fedenrtion, Lewis and Clark Trail (trail marker), Dan Cambridge University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 1966-70. Programmer Bachelor of Arts. Major: Journalism. Phi Beta Kappa. Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, Des Moines, Iowa/ 1 0-present. Audio-visua presentation script writer and programmer. Coordinates scripting and photography in multi -media presentations. Larry V. Williams Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara, Chief Photographer California, 1958-61. Degree: professional photo- graphy. Major: Motion Picture Product ion/Cine- motography. Minor: Illustrative Photography/ Color Printing. Rex Fleming Productions, Santa Barbara, California, 1961-62. CrossWill Productions, Hollywood, California, 1962-64. Roy Rogers Enterprises/Rexford Corporation, Beverly Hills, California. /Vbitland Stewart Productions, Claremont, California, 1965-66. Vihiene Productions, Studio City, California, 1966-68. Mt. San Jacinto College, Gillman Hot Springs, California, 1968-69. Head illustrator/photo technician. Walla Walla Community College, Walla Walla, Washington, 1969-71, Media production director. Video Realities, Inc., Walla Walla, Washington, 1971-72, Director of Production/Vice President. Walla Walla Union Bulletin, Walla Walla, Washington, 1972-73. Chief Photographer. Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1973-present. Chief photographer, audio- visual presentations. Mary Rigg Whitehurst Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, 1969-70. Photographer Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1970-present. Photographer, studio and location. Studio set-up designer. Lab technician -- color processing, black -and -white printing, transparency duplicating. Albert M. Rockwell Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, 1937-38, 1946-49 Director KRNT and KRNT-TV, Des Moines, Iowa, 1948-69. Air personality, radio, 1948-55. Music director, 1955-69. Operations manager, 1960-69. Production manager, 1960-69. Rapport Communications, Des Moines, Iowa, 1969. Ueneral Manager. Audio Visual Presentations, Des Moines, Iowa, 1970-present. Operations Manager. Lecturer, Drake University; president, Mid -America Chorale Corporation; Advisory Council, Department of Adult Education, Des Moines Public Schools; Consultant (advertising), Wesley Day and Co., Jacobs-Ambro Agency. Steven L. Hug Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 1964-68. Technical Director Bachelor of Science (Telecommunicative Arts). WOI-TV and WOI-FM, Ames, Iowa, 1966-68. Television cameraman and radio announcer. Iowa State University Film Production Unit, Ames, Iowa, 1968. Editor, educational films. KDIN-TV, Des Moines, 1968. Cinematographer - editor, children's films. Iowa State Conservation Commission, Des Moines, Iowa, 1969. Cinematographer -editor, educational films and public service announcements. Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, 1969-present. Cinematographer -editor -programmer, television pro- ductions and audio-visual presentations. John H. Schacht University of Colorado, 1958-61. Bachelor of Arts. Copywriter Majors: Engli;;h Literature, History, Journalism. Meredith Publishing Company, Des Moines, loAa, 1961-68. Advertising and promotion copywriter. Named Assistant Promotion and Publicity Manager in 1966. Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1968-present. Company publication editor, advertising saps promotion supervisor, audio-visual presentation script writer. Wrote script for the Iowa State Fair multi -media presentation "The Second Shot Heard 'Round the World". used to hiiiIA niihll, r+ �, \d-1A C__, THE FIVE FLAGS CENTER SCRIPT OF MINIATURE MULTI -MEDIA PRESENTATION AUDIO DUBUQUE BICENTENNIAL CENTER PRESENTATION Final Script 1/25/73 Approved They call him the Paul Revere of the Mississippi . . . . Like the other Paul Revere, he worked in metal. He was a lead miner. His name was Jean Marie Cardinal. The lead mines were on the west bank of the Mississippi at the place where Julien Dubuque was later to found the city that bears his name -- a city that was to become one of the great steamboat ports of Mississippi commerce -- Dubuque, Iowa. . . The year was Seventeen Eighty -- the fourth year of the American Revolution. Jean Marie Cardinal and the Iowa lead mines were providing precious bullets for the Kentuzky riflemen fighting under George Rogers Clark -- possibly even for the soldiers under George Washington who had survived the winter -it Valley Forge. The British were gathering forces and supplies VISUAL AUDIO 2 at Prairie du Chien for a surprise attack on St. Louis, which, if successful, would threaten the entire western frontier. Before moving south to St. Louis the British and their Indian allies fought their first battle on the Upper Mississippi at the Iowa lead mines, capturing seventeen prisoners and fifty tons of lead ore. But Jean Marie Cardinal escaped. He began the day -and -night ride of the second Paul Revere. In a birch -bark canoe from the Iowa lead mines to St. Louis, four hundred miles, Cardinal carried the warning of the impending British attack. The British were defeated at St. Louis and gave up their attempt to hold the western boundary of the American colonies. Jean Marie Cardinal was killed in the battle at St. Louis. The treaty of Seventeen Eighty-three might well have fixed the western boundary of the United States along the Alleghenies instead of at the Mississippi, but for the warning of Jean Marie Cardinal. . . . VISUAL AUDIO 3 Jean Marie Cardinal and the Iowa lead mines play a significant part in the brilliant opening chapter of the history of the United States. They are also part of a much older history of exploration, discovery and settle- ment that goes back three hundred years on the Upper Mississippi. To preserve this unique heritage, we propose to make it a significant part of the American Revolution Bicentennial. . . We propose a cultural and historical Center for the Upper Mississippi valley, embodying the development of our great heritage and commemorating the Revolutionary battle at the lead mines of Dubuque. . . The Center will house a most unusual theater. . .a theater with a multiple screen, multiple -image, multi-r.iedia presen- tation that will recreate the wl;ole landscape of the Upper Mississippi's past and the story of the pioneers who gave it We. In the interest of understanding what it is we VISUAL AUDIO 4 propose, a few pertinent facts about multi- media presentations seem well advised -- simply because the equipment in this room today cannot possibly demonstrate the true impact of a full scale multi -media presentation. The first and perhaps most important aspect of multi -media presentations is -- sheer size. It can be simply awe inspiring. The second aspect is the motion of multiple images -- the experience of watching historic events unfold in a series of rapidly changing bigger - than -life images, each image creating a new perspective for the viewer. And the third aspect -- memorability. The feeling you ore there, surrounded on all sides by the signts and sounds of history. . . . Jean Marie Cardinal and the history of the lead mines. . .the spectacular sight of seven hundred and fifty British troops and Indian warriors southward bound on the Mississippi under the Union Juck of Great Britain. . .these and hundreds of other images from the past will be projected into VISUAL AUDIO 5 the present in the panoramic proportions of the Center's "total environment" theater. . . the walls dissolve into a wilderness, then a bluff overlooking the Mississippi. And, in the distance, two canoes. Once carries a French fur trader and the other a Jesuit missionary. . .Joliet and Marquette in the year Sixteen Seventy-three become the first white men to see the broad waters of the Upper Mississippi and sense the vastness of America. We, too, see it for the first time and sense some of the vastness. . . . Across the historic landscape of the Upper Mississippi also will walk some of the people who were here in the beginning. . .Black Hawk. . . Decorah . . . Peosta . . . Wi nnesh i ek . .Keokuk. . . . Now the scene changes to early winter in Seventy Sixty. . .one of the final scenes of the long French and Indian wars in which England defeats France. Louis Lionard Beaujeu-Villemond leads the last French expedition down the Mississippi past the VISUAL. AUDIO b bluffs of present-day Dubuque. The Fleur cle Lis hangs sadly above the last remnants of the once powerful French forces in America -- four officers, two cadets, forty- eight regulars and seventy-eight militia. France departs from the Upper Mississippi forever . . . . The scenes constantly change, surrounding the viewers with the sights and sounds of mighty colonial powers struggling for possession of the Upper Mississippi and the story of how they eventually lost it to men like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, George Rogers Clark and Jean Morie Cardinal. . . . The Center will also have an outstanding exhibition hall -- twenty thousand square feet. During the Bicentennial year, the exhibition hall will house an historical display of Mississippi memorabilia provided by state historical societies and private donors in all states bordering the Upper Mississippi . . . . VISUAL AUDIO J One of Dubuque's oldest and most archi- tecturolly significant theaters, already a National Historical Site, will be restored and connected to the Center's exhibition hall. On this site a theater has been. in continuous operation since Eighteen Forty, longer than anywhere west of the Mississippi. The theater has excellent acoustics and, when restored, will seat an audience of one thousand. Its stage will be spacious enough to accommodate symphony, ballet and opera. An early cultural center on the Mississippi, Dubuque once boasted twenty legitimate theaters in operation at one time. A play will be commissioned for the Bicen- tennial to commemorate Dubuque's brilliant theater history -- and usher in a new era. . . At the conclusion of the Bicentennial year, the exhibition hall and two theaters will serve the surrounding three-stcte area as a permanent, regional center for the arts, crafts, festivals, theater and -i wide range Of cultural and entertainment events. VISUAL AUDIO 8 We envision a permanent Center for the Upper Mississippi that goes to the very heart of the basic principle for which the Revolution was fought: FREEDOM . . .to explore . . .to discover new horizons . . .to develop . . .to participate After the Bicentennial year, we envision a Center that will give form and expression to a new Spirit of Seventy-six -- restless, inquisitive, active. The Center's activities will take many forms -- an art gallery housing a permanent collection. . .other galleries for touring collections and craft exhibits. . .modular meeting rooms. . . audio visual presentations portraying the history of art, music, theater. . .studios and workshops for future generations of pioneers and explorers on the Upper Mississippi . . . . VISUAL VISUAL u We propose a name.. A name symbolic of the heritage. A heritage that glows in the colors emblazoned on banners that have flown over Dubuque and the Upper Mississippi valley: The Fleur de Lis of France, the Royal Flag of Spain, the Union Jack of England, the French Imperial Flag of Napoleon, and the Stars and Stripes of the United States of America. We propose to name the Center -- FIVE FLAGS. . . . Nineteen Seventy-six will be a truly memorable year for visitors to Dubuque and the Bicentennial Center. Dubuque and the Upper Mississippi valley surrounding Dubuque are'filled with milestones or the road from yesterday to tomorrow. . .g-)thic cathedrals and humble log cabins. . .it river harbour that once was described by steamboat pilots as the best harbour on the Upper Mississippi. . AUDIO 10 the historic shot tower -- molten lead was dropped one hundred and fifty feet into water, thus forming the round shot used by Union soldiers in the Civil War. . restored Victorian homes, picturesque churches and distinctive public buildings that have been subjects for many artists. . .and the shortest cog railroad in the world. The past is just around the corner in Dubuque. . .a regional city that has. not allowed progress to destroy sites and buildings that recall our national heritage and early statehood. . . . The tomb of Julien Dubuque overlooks a vast panorama of the Mississippi which today looks much the way it looked when explorers, missionaries, fur traders, soldiers and miners used the river as a highway for empire all the way from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Thirteen hundred acres surrounding Julien Dubuque's tomb, considered to be one of the most beautiful sites on the Mississippi, are available for a possible Bicentennial National Park. . . . VISUAL AUDIO 11 We are ready to begin. . . . The Center has been the subject of careful study and planning by the Five Flags council which represents a broad cross section of the community -- colleges, business, labor, government, the arts and historical societies. We are of one mind: to build a Bicentennial Center worthy of the proud heritage of the upper Mississippi valley. . .the faculty and students of Dubuque's three colleges. The Dubuque symphony orchestra. . .all of the people and organizations in our part of the country who have found a way to express their passion for freedom will make significant contributions to the Bicentennial celebration on the Upper Mississippi. . . . The people of Dubuque have pledged over seven hundred thousand dollars in private funds toward the constructicn of the Center, and they are anxious to begin building. The Iowa Bicentennial Commission has enthusiastically endorsed the Center. . . VISUAL AUDIO ,2 We are ready to begin -- now. All we need is the endorsement of the National Bicentennial Commission and the funds to finish the Center by Nineteen Seventy-six . . . . So let us begin. Where history began and the Revolution was fought on the Upper Mississippi, under Five Flags. VISUAL