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To shed light on otherwise unknown figures in his story was the greatest joy of making this film.
His 2 mothers were so important to him. And telling their story seems essential in understanding his.
Filmically, one of my favorite parts was depicting his blossoming education. And showing how it changed him. Forming a special bond with his teacher, making friends with classmates and being introduced to great texts all, oddly, seemed cinematic. At the time, the books that completely opened his intellect were Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, Aesop's Fables, A Thousand And One Arabian Knights, and The Bible. He devoured all of them, and carried them with him all his life.
He would often work neighbor's fields to get a book from them for his pay. Interestingly, the books shown in the film are editions that were published around the years that Lincoln would have read them. I bought them online through overseas dealers (or American ones too, there was one from Philadelphia). That's a little bit of trivia that I am proud of. Those aren't reproductions, those are the real deal.
On the topic of the school sequence when he finally begins his education, the voiceover in the picture was taken from George Washington's text "Rules of Civility." He wrote it when he was 14 years old, as a handbook for how young boys could become gentlemen.
George Washington actually wrote a book on common etiquette. I have a copy in my guest bathroom. Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation.