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A 225 -ton symbol of freedom visited by
more than
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175 million.
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The Statue of Liberty is so iconic.
People don't think of the metal and the
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sweat that went into creating it.
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Her story begins 150 years ago in an
unlikely place with an unknown
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artist. Hell -bent on creating the
tallest statue of all time.
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It's something he has to do with his
life.
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It's a puzzle that takes 20 years to
solve. It was an engineering project,
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like a building than a work of art.
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How does she get her shape?
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Excuse me, Mr. Eiffel?
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The inside of the Statue of Liberty
looks like the Eiffel Tower.
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Her signature color. When it was first
built, it looked like a penny.
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What other secrets does she hold?
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His face is near identical to the face
of the Statue of Liberty.
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And how does it nearly end?
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Stop!
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In disaster.
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We need to really understand what kind
of audacity it took for Bartoldi to keep
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trying to make the statue.
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This is the surprising story of Liberty
Rising.
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It's 1865.
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In the United States, the Civil War has
left 750 ,000 soldiers dead.
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The conflict really pivots on the
question whether the United States can
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be a democratic republic and still have
an institution like human bondage.
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The answer to the question is a
resounding no.
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Six days after it ends, President
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated.
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News that reverberates around the world.
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Especially in France, famous French
author Edouard René de Laboulaye is
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particularly outspoken about his love of
democracy, donating to United States
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anti -slavery efforts and singing
America's praises in his books.
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Laboulaye and his friends were fanboys
of the American experiment.
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There was nothing more important to him
than individual liberty, and the United
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States had it. France did not.
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Seventy -five years after its own
revolution, France is now a
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The very person they elect as president,
the nephew of the emperor Napoleon,
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overthrows the republic to establish
himself as the new emperor, calling
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himself... Napoleon III.
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Those who believed in the original
values of the French Revolution are
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thumb of Napoleon III. And they see in
the defeat of the
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Confederacy the capacity to revive their
values of freedom.
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Laboulaye has regular dinner parties
where he and his guests plot to
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French democracy.
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This time, he's invited an up -and
-coming artist.
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Here he is.
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Friends, meet Auguste Bartoldi.
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Frederic Auguste Bartoldi is a 31 -year
-old sculptor trying to make his mark in
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the art world.
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There are times when a dinner really
changes the course of history, and this
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dinner party was one of those times.
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There is a whole assembly of great men
there, you know, to talk over all the
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ideas of the time. And they're thinking,
we need to send something over to the
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United States that will show how much we
respect Abraham Lincoln and the ending
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of slavery there.
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We'll build them a monument, something
that shows we have a bond with the
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American people.
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And you're going to build it.
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Bartoldi is an unlikely choice.
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So far, he's shown little sign of
greatness.
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He starts his career in the 1850s,
trying his hand at painting.
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Bartoldi was a mediocre painter.
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He was always a visual artist, but
perhaps not the best in class.
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In 1855, Martoldi's mother uses family
connections to get him a job using a
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different skill, building the statue of
a French war hero for a government
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exhibit. But he's in over his head.
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By the time he's done with this thing,
it's about 25 feet, including the
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pedestal. It can barely fit out of the
studio with a one -inch clearance
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the doorway.
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When it was delivered to the venue,
everyone's like, we...
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Don't have that big of a door. We have a
problem. We're going to have to leave
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this at the entrance.
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Oh, that is the most prominent place at
this exhibition.
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For Bartoldi, this is the lesson that if
you build something a little bit too
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big, everyone will notice it.
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Ten years later, Laboulaye's proposal is
too late.
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Bartoldi already has another big job in
his sights.
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Egypt is creating the Suez Canal, the
greatest technological wonder of the
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The Suez Canal cuts the distance between
Asia and Europe in more than half.
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Imagine connecting east and west for the
first time in that way.
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Over 40 years before the Panama Canal,
Bartoldi is pitching the idea of a
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monumental statue for the waterway's
entrance.
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This is a time of enormous growth
intellectually and commercially across
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world, and it is a rediscovery also of
ancient ideas, and that included
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statues. At the time, the ancient Greek
Colossus of Rhodes is considered the
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tallest statue in history, at 108 feet,
or about 10 stories.
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By the 19th century, few structures of
any kind reached that height.
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Bartholdi is an...
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Extremely ambitious person, but it's not
for money. He's coming from sort of
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Mason culture that you didn't have any
kind of afterlife you were going to go
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to. Therefore, you have a lot of people
who have this idea of creating some
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wonder, something that will outlast them
and be their gift of immortality.
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Bartoldi's design shows an ancient
enslaved woman holding a lantern, a nod
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Egypt's recent abolition of slavery.
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The design that Bartholdi comes up with
for the Suez Canal statue is a first
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draft for the Statue of Liberty. There
are many similarities between the two, a
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female holding a torch, wearing a robe.
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At 148 feet, more than 13 stories, it
would dwarf the Greek Colossus to be
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the tallest statue in recorded history.
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Bartoli takes his unsolicited pitch to
the mastermind of the canal, famous
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French statesman Ferdinand de Lesseps.
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It's a terrible idea as far as de
Lesseps is concerned.
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Why does de Lesseps want Bartoli to come
in and somehow be the cherry on top of
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his great project?
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I'm late for a party.
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He's filled with despair that this is
not really going to happen, and he has
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go back to the drawing board, literally.
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This rejection alters the course of
history, putting Bartoldi on the path of
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project that will use over 50 million
pounds of metal and concrete to create
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figure that will greet over 175 million
visitors across 130 years and
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counting.
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But for now, he's at square one.
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Bertoldi thinks about the idea that
Laboulaye had once put out there and
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I'm going to America. I'm going to make
this happen.
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In June of 1871, Bartoli sets out for
the United States on the trip that will
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change his life.
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Bartoli doesn't have a plan.
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He doesn't have the money to do this. He
doesn't even know where the ultimate
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location is going to be.
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And he doesn't care.
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He just wants to put this marker down on
the planet and leave it there for all
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time.
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In 1871, French artist Frédéric -Auguste
Bartholdi arrives in New York City with
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no money or design to pitch his idea of
building the world's tallest statue.
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He had never visited the country. He
didn't know what it looked like. He
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know where to place a statue of this
size.
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But before he even steps off the boat,
Bartholdi spots the ideal location.
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Today, we know it as Liberty Island.
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But in 1871, it's called Bedloe's
Island, a nondescript place New Yorkers
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largely ignore.
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It was a small island that held Fort
Wood. It was a military fort that was no
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longer in use, so it was abandoned.
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Bedloe's Island is situated in such a
place that as you come into New York
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Harbor, it's very prominent.
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To Bartoldi.
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It's the perfect stage for his statue, a
gift from France to the U .S.
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But now he needs to convince the right
people.
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The only letters of introduction that he
has are from Laboulaye and people that
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he knew from the abolitionist struggle.
So the idea that these connections could
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ultimately lead to the approval of the
statue, it almost seems preposterous.
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But after just a few weeks, Edouard de
Laboulaye's contacts lead him to a
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beach cottage.
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Mr. President, thank you for seeing me.
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It's the summer home of President
Ulysses S. Grant, two years into his
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term. You know, one of the striking
things when you look back at that part
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the 19th century was how almost
ridiculously accessible presidents could
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could find the president of the United
States out and about walking the city.
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That would never happen today.
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Bartoldi asks permission to place his 13
-story monument on Bedloe's Island and
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shows the Suez Canal design as a sample
of his work.
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There are dreamers, and then there's
Bartoldi.
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No real idea of how it's going to be
paid for.
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Bartoldi impulsively makes a guarantee.
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The French have the money to build the
statue.
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And he actually gets a commitment from
the President of the United States, no
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less. President Grant said, you provide
the statue and I will see if Congress
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will give you that island.
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Bartoldi just assumes, hey, the
President of the United States has said
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Clearly, I got it made in the shade,
right?
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I think delusion was the key ingredient
of this entire project. Delusion and a
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stubbornness of will.
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Back in France, Bartoli struggles with
no money and no fresh design.
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So he reworks the Suez idea.
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The Suez Canal statue is the prototype
of the Statue of Liberty.
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I mean, there's no question.
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But the veiled headdress isn't right for
his new theme.
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Bartoldi needs a different direction.
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There's a depiction of France with a
diadem crown, and that sticks with him.
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You find it in his archives that he has
a photograph of that. It's a classical
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form that shows this kind of rays of
light.
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Bartoldi calls his creation Liberty
Enlightening the World.
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And amazingly, he decides to go even
bigger. He puts her on a pedestal,
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the statue over 300 feet in total,
nearly three times as tall as the
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Rhodes.
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But Bartoldi still has a major money
problem.
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With the added pedestal, the statue is
expected to cost well over $10 million
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today's dollars.
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So Bartoldi calls in Edouard de
Laboulaye and Ferdinand de Letheps for
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The plan is to split the financing.
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France covers the statue, and America
pays for the pedestal.
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And the Americans agreed to that.
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Not exactly.
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But we've got a commitment from France.
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Yes. if we can pay for it.
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The Statue of Liberty would never be
publicly funded.
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While everyone was enamored with the
idea, no one wanted to pay for it. The
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Statue of Liberty is not practical and
it is not functional.
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Other projects were meant for the
expansion of the modern world, for
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of the economy and commerce. And the
Statue of Liberty served no other
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than... To be a statue.
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The group launches a public fundraising
campaign in France.
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But in the next two years, they can only
raise a quarter of the statue's
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estimated cost.
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And they're at another crossroads.
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Until Bartoldi sees an opportunity
across the ocean.
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In one year, the U .S. will hold its
first World's Fair in Philadelphia,
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100 years as a nation.
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Millions will attend this centennial
exposition, and Bartoldi devises a
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way to harness it.
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So Bartoldi needed proof of concept,
right? If he's going to convince the
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Americans to get involved and to build
this pedestal, he's going to actually
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need to build a little bit of the Statue
of Liberty.
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You can't just build part of the statue.
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People can't imagine the scale of what
we're planning.
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They need to see our vision.
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Or part of it.
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What if we don't raise the rest of the
money?
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We won't if we don't do this.
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What part of the statue do you want to
build?
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It's a risky strategy.
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If the full statue is never finished,
the money they've raised is lost.
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and there's no turning back.
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You heard the man.
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What part?
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It's 1875.
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Frederic Auguste Bartholdi is using what
little money his French partners have
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collected to build part of the Statue of
Liberty, a desperate attempt to
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demonstrate its potential at the United
States' centennial celebration.
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only five months away.
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This would be the perfect time to
showcase what his vision for the statue
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probably get a lot more people behind it
and their pocketbooks.
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He's decided to construct the hand
holding the torch.
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I mean, it's the liberty enlightening
the world, and so to have the torch says
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it all. It's also beautiful, and it's
also dramatic.
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Bartoldi will hammer copper into the
shapes of the flames.
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He plans to gild them with gold.
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and illuminate them with floodlights.
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But he has an even bigger thrill in
mind.
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He was planning to use every fundraising
apparatus that he could, and the way to
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do that would be to sell tickets and let
them go up into the torch and walk
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around the flame.
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Patrons will climb a 40 -foot ladder the
width of a fire escape to a balcony
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surrounding the flame.
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But to build just part of the statue to
scale,
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Bartoldi must figure out how to
construct the whole thing.
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This project was something unlike any
previous sculpture.
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You couldn't just cast it out of bronze.
You couldn't carve it out of a single
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block of marble.
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It had to be constructed. It was an
engineering project, more like a
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than a work of art.
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You need someone who is more or less an
architect in order to make it stand up,
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not necessarily an artist like
Bartholdi.
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Good afternoon, Professor.
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August Bartholdi.
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I have been reading about your statue,
which is why I'm here.
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Eugene Viollet -Leduc is a former mentor
of Bartholdi, and this is the guy who
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knows his math.
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He was charged with creating much of the
statuary in Notre Dame.
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He creates the gargoyles.
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It will be impossible to assemble it as
one solid piece.
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If you'll only look at the plans.
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Show me.
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The statue was tall, about 13 stories.
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and thin.
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At the time, the only structures built
that high, like some churches, have a
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much wider base.
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Bartoldi's Colossus will have to be on
the cutting edge of a new construction
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technique. A traditional building, you
build the walls, and the walls hold up
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the structure.
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The Statue of Liberty, in effect, one of
the first examples of what, in
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architecture, they call a curtain wall.
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You build a strong frame first, and then
you hang the exterior wall from it. The
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wall doesn't hold up the building. The
building holds up the wall.
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Biolay -Leduc needs to figure out
materials for the inner frame and
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exterior.
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And he chooses what he knows, a wood
frame for the inside of the statue,
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with a layer of plaster, and for the
exterior skin, copper.
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It's the most lightweight plentiful
metal available, and a striking color,
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least at first.
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But when it rusts, and its color of rust
is called patina, it has that greenish
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color, and that's just copper oxide.
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This chemical process takes decades to
complete.
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So when it was first built, they called
it the Copper Lady. You know, it looked
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like a penny.
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Violet Leduc has used copper and wood in
statues less than 30 feet tall.
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But this is five times that, requiring 4
,000 square feet and 31 tons of
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hammered copper pushed to its absolute
limit.
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I think this is crazy when you pause and
think about it. You go out to that
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harbor and look at it. That copper
statue is about the thickness of maybe
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pennies put together.
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That's it.
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The thickness of the copper in the
Statue of Liberty is as thick as it
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be. If it's any thicker, it would add an
immense amount of weight.
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But for the statue's engineers, the
question is still, will the whole
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be strong enough?
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It has to face enormous strain and
stress of weather and wind.
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Bartoldi also has a design issue.
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What will liberty hold in her left hand?
If we look at early models of the
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Statue of Liberty, Lady Liberty is
actually clutching broken chains in her
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It's inspired by the abolition of the
formerly enslaved.
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But Bartoli realizes that as the nation
is moving further and further away from
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the Civil War, The tone, the mood has
shifted in the United States. He decides
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instead to pick up on the centennial.
And he has inscribed in the book that
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Liberty is holding, July 4th, 1776.
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Bartoli doesn't abandon the chains idea.
He places them at Liberty's feet.
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But it's a detail only visible from
above.
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If it had maintained its original
meaning of abolition, it would become a
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reminder of unfinished projects and
ambitions that we still struggle with
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this day.
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By March 1876, with the U .S. Centennial
Exposition two months away,
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The wooden plaster of Liberty's 13 -foot
hand is done.
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The next step is a move to where they
will apply the final copper skin.
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Ready?
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Wait.
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Stop! Stop!
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It's ruined.
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And is useless.
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This is not just an inconvenience. It is
a disaster.
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Stop!
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It's March 1876, and the first piece
built for the Statue of Liberty...
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The hand that will bear the torch is
ruined.
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There's no time to rebuild it by the
opening of the Centennial World's Fair
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Philadelphia, just weeks away.
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They still needed funding, and this was
a way to focus light on their project.
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And if they didn't make this target,
most likely the project would be dead.
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But there is one fallback. The Expo
lasts six months.
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If they start to rebuild now, they can
race to try to make its final month.
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As Bartoldi's men get back to work,
around 10 million visitors attend the
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American innovation takes center stage.
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With the debut of Alexander Graham
Bell's telephone, the Remington
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Even Heinz ketchup.
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The Industrial Revolution is finally
allowing them to, if you will, maximize
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incredible wealth and resources of their
country. They are an entire continent
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full of possibility.
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In October 1876, with just a few weeks
left in the exposition, Bartoldi's team
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achieves a miracle.
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The hand and torch of Lady Liberty make
their debut in Philadelphia.
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Liberty enlightening the world. This is
just one section of a much larger... Can
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I climb it?
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Of course.
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50 cents.
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50 cents apiece, which is about $15
today.
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The crowds react to Bartoli's creation
better than he could have hoped.
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Clever move.
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As you exited, where did you come out?
Through the gift shop, where they would
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sell you a photographic print, a
souvenir of where you've been.
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He also brilliantly had little
miniatures, little depictions.
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So yes, in fact, he invented the
souvenir before the actual thing.
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Not only does Bartoldi get an infusion
of cash to keep building the statue in
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France.
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an American committee forms to fund the
pedestal. The Americans are going to
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cover the cost of the pedestal, and the
French will cover the cost of the statue
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itself. After the centennial, the hand
and torch go on display at New York's
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Madison Square Park to keep the project
in the public eye and hopefully
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donations flowing.
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For the first time, Bartoldi's dream
feels like a possibility.
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Bartoldi now has enough money to build
Lady Liberty's head, and he must
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the exact shape and contour of the
statue's most important feature.
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There's this whole debate about who is
the face of the statue, and there is a
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kind of romance to say that it is the
face of his mother. But if you actually
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look at the images of his mother's face
at the time, they don't resemble the
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statue at all.
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And when it was brought up to him, he
didn't say, yes, that is my mother's
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The statue's face could be modeled after
another Bartoldi relative.
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Bartoldi's brother, whom he loves
dearly, is in an asylum because of
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he's having with his mental health.
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Bartoldi talked about wanting to do a
liberty that seemed troubled or, you
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understood the weight of what they were
carrying.
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In his files, there's a picture that he
took of his brother Charles, and if you
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study the face, the face is near
identical to the face of the Statue of
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Bartoldi sells tickets to watch the
statue build in progress.
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When the face is complete, he displays
the head at the 1878 World's Fair in
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Paris.
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And Edouard de Laboulaye makes one final
push to send their fundraising over the
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top. The real crucial thing is he gets
the French government to actually sign
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off on a lottery. That's where things
really move.
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Nearly $5 million in today's dollars is
raised in just months, finally enough to
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build the full statue.
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But in September 1879, the project hits
a devastating setback.
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When Bartoldi's master engineer, Viole
Le Duc, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.
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He's left without an engineer at this
critical time when he has to erect the
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largest statue in the world.
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Not only is he a former mentor, a
friend, he also knows how to run a big
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Without this expertise, the statue may
not happen.
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Now, Bartoldi needs another savior.
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Excuse me, Mr. Eiffel?
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It's 1881.
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The Statue of Liberty's engineer has
died suddenly, shutting down the project
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for months.
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Frederic Auguste Bartholdi may have
found a replacement.
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His name is Gustave Eiffel. Most people
think of Gustave.
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And they, of course, jumped to the
Eiffel Tower.
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That's not going to happen until 1889.
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He's known for building bridges,
arguably the best bridge builder in all
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Europe.
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But the engineer has never built
anything like this.
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And he's already faced with a huge
problem.
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Eugene Viollet -Leduc's inner wooden
structure.
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Viollet -Leduc's untimely death was, of
course, heartbreaking, but it also might
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have... saved the Statue of Liberty
because it's not at all clear that his
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of building the frame out of wood would
have really worked.
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The frame will have to hold Liberty up
amid brutal conditions.
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So the Statue of Liberty with its arm
out and wearing a toga, for lack of a
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better term, a lot of air can push on
this thing.
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This giant copper structure is going to
act like a sail in the wind.
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Eventually the whole thing is going to
come toppling over.
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Eiffel must figure out how to make sure
that never happens.
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Meanwhile, back in the U .S., the
American committee has raised enough
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begin construction on the huge statue
pedestal.
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Charles P. Stone was the engineer chosen
to create the pedestal on the United
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States side.
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As Stone prepares to construct the
pedestal inside the walls of Fort Wood,
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A system of underground bunkers presents
a huge challenge.
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They discovered, to their dismay, it's
meant to stand firm against
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artillery, and we are going to have a
giant engineering challenge to get
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this level of reinforcement just to
build our own structure here.
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How far down does it go?
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Doesn't say.
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Well, this is the spot we'll have to
make do.
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For a Statue of Liberty's size, it will
require a concrete pour of 54 million
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pounds, the largest ever attempted to
this point.
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In France, Gustave Eiffel finds the
solution to building a stronger inner
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in an unlikely structure.
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Eiffel was making his name.
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building iron truss bridges.
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The iron truss bridge was a new
technology.
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Bridges are not statues unless you think
about what the bridges do.
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They undergo enormous strain.
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They are pretty large.
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If you took a bridge and turned it on
its edge, then you might have a tower.
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Eiffel is on the cusp of a
groundbreaking innovation that will have
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far beyond the Statue of Liberty.
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In the next decade, for the first time,
buildings begin to rise past 10 stories
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and far beyond.
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He comes up with a strategy which
revolutionized basically the way we
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which is make an iron scaffolding, and
then the outer cladding is just purely
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creped over that structure.
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The approach will lead to a new class of
building that will dominate the
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following century, the skyscraper.
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It's also the strategy he will use to
build a 1 ,000 -foot iconic structure,
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Eiffel Tower.
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But it all starts with liberty.
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If you don't know what the inside of the
Statue of Liberty looks like, it looks
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like the Eiffel Tower.
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The plan is to build her completely to
prove she's structurally sound, then
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disassemble her to be shipped to
America.
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Over 50 craftsmen, using some 90 ,000
individual measurements, begin to piece
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Liberty together until she's too big to
fit inside.
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Picture an orange -red Lady Liberty,
because she's yet to have oxidized and
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turned green, just rising up.
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I imagine that there were more than a
few people.
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who walked down the street and, like,
rubbed their eyes a little bit because
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they saw this gigantic woman standing in
the street. It's almost like a Godzilla
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movie.
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By November 1884, nearly a decade after
Bartoldi started building the Hand and
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Torch, the full Statue of Liberty is
finally standing.
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but she won't reach her final home
without confronting the same problem
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plagued her from the start.
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It is without a doubt the most fraught
and difficult aspect of making the
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of Liberty happen.
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Tell the man to stop working.
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The U .S. team building the pedestal for
the Statue of Liberty led by engineer
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Charles P. Stone has hit major cost
overruns, leaving them $100 ,000 short.
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Stone and his efforts had to stop.
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Construction halted because the
Americans didn't have the money.
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And Stone is running out of time.
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Because in Paris, the Statue of Liberty
is being disassembled into more than 350
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pieces, packed in crates ranging from
150 pounds to four tons.
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They'll travel in a special 70 -car
freight train to a ship bound for New
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Those are things that people don't
normally think of.
460
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,700
The engineering of it goes all the way
down to, how is it going to travel?
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00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:47,260
The 225 tons of parts will take 17 days
to pack in the ship's cargo hold,
462
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carefully placed not to shift in the
ocean waves.
463
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,080
But they might arrive with no pedestal
to stand on.
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00:35:55,460 --> 00:35:57,940
The press senses a juicy story.
465
00:36:01,380 --> 00:36:04,320
So, I hear you're out of money.
466
00:36:05,420 --> 00:36:08,780
We're just a little behind schedule.
Nothing serious.
467
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:15,629
So... Joseph Pulitzer is a newspaper
owner who has mastered the art of
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00:36:15,630 --> 00:36:20,489
people sensationalized stories that
excite people's passions, for better and
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00:36:20,490 --> 00:36:25,350
worse. Most Americans know the name
Joseph Pulitzer through the Pulitzer
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00:36:25,570 --> 00:36:30,609
which is one of the highest honors given
to print journalists, which is a bit
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00:36:30,610 --> 00:36:35,689
ironic. Given the sort of journalism
that Pulitzer himself practiced, no
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00:36:35,690 --> 00:36:39,090
headline was too tawdry or salacious.
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00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:45,819
Listen, Mr. Pulitzer, I appreciate your
interest, but it's nothing we want to
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00:36:45,820 --> 00:36:46,870
publicize.
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00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,800
You misunderstand me, Mr. Stone.
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00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:52,980
I want to help.
477
00:36:56,260 --> 00:37:03,239
When Joseph Pulitzer is in Paris, he
sees the statue actually as it is coming
478
00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:05,760
together, and he's inspired by that.
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00:37:06,410 --> 00:37:11,349
Pulitzer launches an all -out
fundraising campaign in his newspapers
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twist. He said, people of America, send
in your dollars or your pennies even to
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00:37:17,250 --> 00:37:22,630
build this pedestal and I, in return,
will print your name in the newspaper.
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00:37:23,050 --> 00:37:24,100
You'll be famous.
483
00:37:24,550 --> 00:37:29,010
It was really America's first
crowdsourcing Kickstarter campaign.
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00:37:30,450 --> 00:37:35,270
Pulitzer's campaign raises $102 ,000 in
just a few months.
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00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:37,260
Nearly 3 million today.
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00:37:37,620 --> 00:37:40,480
Stone's men are soon working round the
clock.
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00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:46,370
Come on!
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00:37:53,060 --> 00:37:54,400
You can do this!
489
00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:57,060
But it's not fast enough.
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00:37:57,540 --> 00:38:04,280
200 crates carrying Liberty arrive on
Bedloe's Island and sit there.
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00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,699
This is like leaving a jigsaw puzzle out
in the rain and trying to put it
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00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:14,339
together later. The parts have
misshapen, have been warped due to
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00:38:14,340 --> 00:38:15,390
the environment.
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00:38:15,980 --> 00:38:20,539
The boxes weren't labeled really well.
The worst sort of Ikea bookshelf you can
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00:38:20,540 --> 00:38:25,219
imagine. For months, Stone's men
struggled to make sense of weathered
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00:38:25,220 --> 00:38:27,800
confusing directions, all in French.
497
00:38:28,260 --> 00:38:31,600
With a lot of Americans trying to
interpret this system.
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00:38:31,930 --> 00:38:36,129
There were some panels left over, and
they realized later it was that they had
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00:38:36,130 --> 00:38:40,969
put the arm on slightly wrong, so it was
unstable from almost the beginning, and
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00:38:40,970 --> 00:38:43,590
it was because of a couple of missing
copper panels.
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00:38:43,910 --> 00:38:47,310
The original arm will later be found to
have structural issues.
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00:38:47,610 --> 00:38:52,669
The government closes off the 40 -foot
climb to the torch, and it remains
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00:38:52,670 --> 00:38:53,720
today.
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00:38:59,690 --> 00:39:04,009
Back in France, Bartholdi hears horror
stories about the assembly of his statue
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00:39:04,010 --> 00:39:05,790
and rushes to New York.
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00:39:07,130 --> 00:39:09,830
If anything's wrong, we'll fix it.
507
00:39:13,310 --> 00:39:16,770
If things are as bad as they say, I'll
take my name off liberty.
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00:39:36,710 --> 00:39:37,760
Oh, my God.
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00:39:38,870 --> 00:39:39,920
Auguste.
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00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:12,779
On October 28, 1886, the city of New
York holds an official inauguration
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00:40:12,780 --> 00:40:15,460
celebration for the Statue of Liberty.
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00:40:18,820 --> 00:40:22,800
Lady Liberty is like no statue the world
has ever known.
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00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,940
It's the tallest structure of any kind
in New York.
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00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:32,060
Visible from 25 miles away.
515
00:40:32,540 --> 00:40:34,960
Her shoe size, if she needed one.
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00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,200
would be 879.
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00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:42,400
And it was the biggest event that the
city of New York had ever seen.
518
00:40:42,720 --> 00:40:46,940
The parade was endless, bands and
carriages.
519
00:40:48,220 --> 00:40:53,179
Throngs of spectators board ferries to
Bedloe's Island for the unveiling of
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00:40:53,180 --> 00:40:54,800
Liberty Enlightening the World.
521
00:40:55,240 --> 00:41:00,679
The press is already referring to it as
the Statue of Liberty, but many also
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00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,820
call it the Bartoli Statue.
523
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:20,980
It's like the work of the old Egyptian.
524
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,540
I hope it lasts as long.
525
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:35,199
Frederick Auguste Bartholdi will never
again produce anything approaching the
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00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,080
scale of the Statue of Liberty.
527
00:41:37,620 --> 00:41:40,360
But with it, his legacy is secure.
528
00:41:41,210 --> 00:41:46,769
Really what we have is one person, this
one artist who had this vision, and no
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00:41:46,770 --> 00:41:51,410
matter how many terrible things
happened, he insisted on getting it
530
00:41:52,090 --> 00:41:58,289
I really don't think Bartoldi could have
foreseen how the Statue of Liberty
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00:41:58,290 --> 00:42:02,210
would affect people immigrating to the
United States.
532
00:42:04,940 --> 00:42:10,779
The poem, The New Colossus, with that
iconic phrase, give me your tired, your
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00:42:10,780 --> 00:42:16,819
poor, that poem doesn't get affixed to
the base of the pedestal until
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00:42:16,820 --> 00:42:18,440
1903.
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00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:25,439
But for so many people, for generations,
the first they glimpsed of America, of
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00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,780
course, would have been arriving by sea.
537
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:33,859
And that initial welcome, that very
first thing that sent a message about
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00:42:33,860 --> 00:42:39,059
kind of place you could risk everything
to make as your home, would have been
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00:42:39,060 --> 00:42:41,000
this extraordinary statue.
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00:42:45,180 --> 00:42:49,800
So the Statue of Liberty has become the
emblem of American identity.
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00:42:50,330 --> 00:42:55,149
And it's not just Americans. The idea of
liberty and democracy and the light of
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00:42:55,150 --> 00:42:59,709
the world has transcended our national
borders. It's become something more.
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00:42:59,710 --> 00:43:06,190
become human. It's become the idea, the
perfect version of human conduct.
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00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:10,790
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