Producers Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films took a production trip to Connecticut to gather final footage for their docudrama Sons & Daughters of Thunder. Filming took place at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in the heart of Hartford, where the author lived her remaining years until her death in the house on July 1, 1896. She was 85 years old.
Director Kelly Rundle gathers glimpses of Harriet's elder life in the home she shared with husband Calvin and their twin daughters.
Several of Harriet's still life paintings she created hung on the walls in the home.
Lisa Beede, the Stowe Center Communications Coordinator, toured Tammy (pictured here) and Kelly through the home and shared details about the extensive family archives and the collection on exhibit at the museum.
An image of Lane Theological Seminary hangs above a photo of Harriet and Calvin Stowe.
Footage gathered at the home is planned to be used in Thunder as the framework for the storytelling.
Based on a play by Earlene Hawley and Curtis Heeter, Sons & Daughters of Thunder tells the unforgettable true story of the beginning of the end of slavery in America. In 1834, if polite discussions about abolishing slavery were considered inappropriate among Americans in Northern states, then eighteen days of public student-sponsored debates on the divisive subject at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio (a border community) were scandalous. Organized by Theodore Weld, one of the architects of the abolitionist movement, the shocking oratory sparked intense controversy and awakened a young Harriet Beecher (Stowe) to the realities of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (far right) and her father Lyman Beecher.
Collections Manager Elizabeth Burgess, Lisa Beede and Kelly Rundle in between filming.
Our thanks to everyone at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center for allowing us to film in Harriet and Calvin's beautiful home and for your kind assistance during our work there.
For more information about the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and taking your own tour of this magnificent historical site, visit https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org.
Fourth Wall Films is anxious to share the finished film with you at the premiere in Cincinnati on March 23, 2019 and March 16, 2019 on the National Geographic Giant Screen at the Putnam Museum in Davenport!
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