Mount Rushmore Was Supposed to Look Very Different
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- It took more than 14 years for Mount Rushmore to be completed. During it's construction, unstable stone forced the the sculptor to dynamite Jefferson's original face.
From: AERIAL AMERICA: The Dakotas
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The fact a team of non-artists using jackhammers lead by one artist (Gutzon Borglum) built this 60 ft awe inspiring colossal structure in 14 years is beyond mind blowing.
14 years for an unfinished job with awkward placement? Yeah, mind blowing.
ouncy And yet the average person could never do it, so yes. Awe inspiring.
And nobody mentioned that this was a sacred place of the natives. But Muricans once again didnt care and thought everything they see is theirs
yawn
HEY THAT WAS WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAU
Crazy how nature make that
Yay for artificialism
Cher, is that you?
richnable LOL 4HEad
*r/whoosh*
Cher, is that you?
The Hokages do look different tho.....
I literally just had a thought about how the Hokage Rock looks like Mt. Rushmore lol.
And the fourth one is a hashira with his own movie.
2:39 look at Roosevelt's forehead it has a face on it
Its an alien 👽 face lol
No, it's Joseph Stalin
Naruto just messing about again
Axel Ayala I just see some eyes on his forehead.
Axel Ayala i also saw it I was like meh it might just be me
Make sure to tune in to #AerialAmerica The Dakotas tonight at 8PM to hear the story behind Mount Rushmore.
Smithsonian Channel My class is working on Meriweather Louis and William Clark a.k.a Louis and Clark
There's a spelling error in your description. Good work, Smithsonian.
I'm disgusted you didn't mention the plan to include the TEN COMMANDMENTS. Instead, you said 'a tablet inscribed with an inspirational text"
Religious cleansing.
Now, just imagine how the ancient wall carvings and statues in Egypt and Mesopotamia and the cliff cities were made.
"Ancient astronaut theroists say yes"
Egyptian carvings weren't done on stolen land.
@@johngalt8279 cope
@@CEOofSleep how did you know though ?
I actually think these carvings are so amazing
The aerials in this footage make Mt. Rushmore look so small and insignificant but when you are there it is quite magnificent and awe inspiring! There is a hiking trail that goes right under the faces and it makes you feel small!
Little known fact, Mt Rushmore was virtually unknown to the public until the movie North by Northwest made it famous.
It also seems very few have seen the pics of The "Six Grandfathers" mountain in 1927. It was magnificent! They should have shown it!
the hokages lol
onegonzalezzz 😂😂😂
onegonzalezzz I’m ded
Asupreme Rocket yea
onegonzalezzz good one!
Kid: "Mom look!" Its Hashirama, Tobirama, Hiruzen, and Minato!
People used to have pride In our country. Not everything we did, but pride in our country.
@Ella Some people are loyal to the country they live in and aren't having an identity crisis where they're torn between two countries. Obviously you can't say the same.
@Ella say what?
@Zeek Banistor or a rabid trumpster cult member...
Ryan Edwards - I might be proud that I got a B+ in a difficult course , BUT , might still want a A +. I might be glad that I rushed for 100 yards in a game , but , was even happier when I got 140 yards . Many of the people who want significant change , are proud of the USA , but think that it can do better .
@@pbradics3670 The lies perpetuated by the south , after their terrible Civil War losses , through a fantasy called the "Lost Cause" , are believed by many , and still being taught in some circles . This is a huge failing for any education system ,and should be thoroughly cleansed from schools and from society. The Confederate monuments are part of that massive LIE . It is beyond the pale that 40,000,000 black Americans are expected to walk by statues of men who absolutely despised them , such as Jefferson Davis , Alexander Stephens , Robert E. Lee , Jubal Early , Braxton Braddock , Leonidas Polk and Nathan Bedford Forest . It would be like asking Jewish Americans to put up with statues of Adolph Eichmann , or to ask Ukrainians to celebrate Joseph Stalin . ( These men started a war to allow rich southern planters to stay rich .( see the Letters of Secession ) Then , when they lost , they made up a fairy tale to serve their needs .)
The original plans were to have the figures bodies carved out to their waists (if you look, theres room) but the old man died and WWII came along and money ran out. If you visit there, you can see a huge wax model by Borglum as how it was supposed to look.
I wonder how ol' Teddy feels about being constantly hidden in Lincoln's shadow.
N R - He’s dead.
He would be honored to be hidden by his shade.
Wasn´t this a holy site for the Natives? I mean they were protesting to at least leave them that untouched, right?
Nobody in Australia, doesn´t matter how bold or great, didn´t curve Uluru out and still handle it with respect since its sacred to Aboriginals.
hyup.
2:19 "Jefferson's revised image received its recognition" *deep voice* "IN NINETY THIRTY SIX"
A little Rushmore trivia: Gutzon Borglund actually had 3 sons. Their names were Lincoln, Mercury, and Ford.
That’s a neat lil fact
Where did you get this info from? He had one son Lincoln & one daughter Mary & one other child
mt. Rushmore is so very beautiful, I can close my eyes and can still see the beauty
It really doesn't look complete...
It isn't complete. Look at a picture of the model of the mountain, before the faces were carved.
We carved the faces and Borglum's dead, time for us to go to bed.
Aviator, Tribune of the Plebs you need to clean your bifocals ...
Your right
They should add Presidents FDR and Reagan.
Very well narrated.
Certainly one of the greatest acts of vandalism ever perpetrated.
Agreed. And all the rubble under it isn't very pretty either
Tf
Actually the monument was never finished, only declared as finished, because WW2 and fundings, so they had to declare it as "finished". Look at Abe's head/har - obviously needed much more work.
Yes, we need to add Trump!!! MAGA!!!
@@barchetta575m Just no
barchetta575m No trump is the worst president
@@barchetta575m bro are you trying to get the entire monument bombed??? How selfish to think Trump a home alone hollywood star belongs with the greatest presidents of our history.
@@kanedawong The Ex Jihadist President is
It makes me sad to hear that the the designer never got to see the finished result. I bet he would be proud though.
Honest Man
Shut up
its not finished
@@eliegbert8121 ...
Honest Man the fact that you even think of that makes you gay.
Eli is correct. The original designer wanted the president’s to have bodies and reportedly wanted to build a room behind the heads where the Declaration and the Constitution would be stored.
When we all disappear and there’s nothing left of our infrastructure and technology. Only Mount Rushmore will be left to show this period in history. In time it will weather like the Sphinx but should last thousands of years.
Went to the black hills, pretty cool
Click bait title! I came here to see what it would have looked like! You just showed what there is now, not even period footage of when it was being built! 😠
Where’s Team America’s base?
I'm blown away, beautiful, outstanding, a work of art. Too far for me in the UK, especially as I get travel sick, shame
sadly this place and rock was belong to the natives which like US always does stole it and break the treaty
It is a work of art.
*It’s a work of vandalism on ancient land.*
Let's go add some graffiti to it
@@madvillain5732 Do you try to make every joyful thing sad?
@@bradykim8438 seems like our forefathers did😁
@@madvillain5732 Conquest and colonization has been around since the dawn of man, but it seems you guys always go after the trail of tears.
Crazy horse is awesome too!!
They need to finish the Crazy Horse Memorial... 🐎
They just gotta stop building statues altogether then..😔
Yes it is a sacred mountain. They should never have graffiti it.
Sacred? yeah ok.
The SD state historian who started it all was Doane Robinson... NOT Duane. He's the person who first contacted Gutzon Borglum
Mount Rushmore is never coming down, period. Anyone who says it should has no right to say so.
stanfordite exactly
correct
So, it was designed, built and maintained as a tourist trap.
Just like every monument around the globe. So?
Yes, on land stolen from Native Americans.
@@Bildgesmythe So? They stole land from other tribes. This isn't something new.
Bildgesmythe who stole the land from the previous inhabitants and so on and so forth....
@@Bildgesmythe It's the Murican way. :(
That was absolutely mesmerizing
God Bless America 🇺🇲❤️🗽🌹🕊️
Something's seriously wrong when you have to instruct the Smithsonian about the possessive of "it" and its distinction from "it is."
Cursive isn't taught anymore, the education system is broken.
Cursive was phased out because AI can't read it. Welcome to the hive.
I'm glad I got to see it in 2003, never imagining that people in 2020 would talk of removing it.
aboctok roflmfao don’t get out much or watch tv either.
Share our thanks for the USA daily 😊🇺🇲❤️
I often use this theme on my work computer screen. It used to be at PT Harindotama Mandiri in 1993-2016 'Exactly a song that has no title' Thank you
Great monument, Really mesmerizing.
How can it be great, when it was created on stolen land? The Black Hills, including Mt. Rushmore, legally belong to the Lakota Sioux people, like it or not.
@@johngalt8279 It legally belongs to the American people.
@@johnlocke4695 no, it does not. Legally, it belongs to the Lakota Sioux people, per the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, which grants legal ownership of the entire Black Hills, including Six Grandfathers (what you Europeans call Mt. Rushmore) to the Lakota. You people are trespassing and squatting on Lakota land, cupcake. Try and keep up with harsh reality. But of course, if you believe that the law of the land...YOUR law...should not be extended to the rights of Native Americans, then come on out and admit that you're a hopeless bigot, as well as an invasive foreigner living on stolen land.
@@johngalt8279 American belongs to Americans by right of conquest. The principal of democracy this represents inspires all of humanity and will continue to do so for thoousands of years. Cope and seeth
@@saltycoffe1631 sorry, puddin', but those plethora of treaties that your people drafted and signed, acknowledging legal land ownership by the tribes, negates the validity of your argument. The US Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that indeed, the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie is valid, so the Black Hills legally belong to the Lakota Sioux people. All such violated treaties...none of which has a statute of limitations...need to be revisited by an army of attorneys. You are living on stolen land, rendering you a squatter. Deal with it.
Why are all the comments so negative?
Asshurt injuns.
More like white folk getting offended for the sake of red folk. The libs don't realize it, but they're only reinforcing the noble savage stereotype as they do so.
@@TheBoldImperator The tribes were always opposed to this monument. This particular mountain was part of their tribal origin story and is sacred to them.
@@the_endgame
EXCUSE FOR INDIAN SAVAGERY: sacred land
RUSHMORE, when it was just a rock face, went back and forth between tribal warfare...
Denibeus because people are such losers
Its awesome.genius .bright ideas,one of a kind,exquisite.sculpture.I salute the people who sculpture this rock mountain.skillful..thanks fr the video.
I love america ❤🇺🇸❤
No mention in this video of the fact that the land belongs to the Lakota, and is sacred to them. They proved in the Supreme Court that it is theirs by treaty right - and the Court offered them monetary compensation. Not much. They want the land, not any money they may be offered for it.... It is theirs by Treaty right. That is equivalent to it being in the US Constitution.
If you can't defend your land, then someone else is going to take it. That's just history, nobody is perfect.
@@fiammanerapatrick3215 so if China invaded the US you’d be okay with it because the US couldn’t defend its country?
@@hunkpapa5843 If that happens, then that happens. I assume the United States is able to stop a Chinese invasion, but that's just another example of what I was saying. If were are not able to defend the land we sit on, someone else will come in and try to take it.
There 1 million dollar that growing in banks i remember mention they have not pick up.
@@fiammanerapatrick3215 I mean communist china took over. The rea china went nope and went tawain.
In 2,000 years, future people will be wondering how the monument was created with such primitive tools, and speculate it could only be built with help from Ancient Aliens.
In 2,000 years there won't be any humans left to wonder about anything. Maybe then the Earth can begin to heal . . .
Stone W
Oh you’re one of those. Heil Greta Thunberg!
I think they'll look to Mount Rushmore like we do with the Sphinx. It's said 10,000 years from now, this monument will still be recognizable.
@@stonew1927 Lol, you really believe that?😂😂😂
@@makteko Yes, I do! It certainly is a possibility at the rate of degration of our environment and Planet. Things are happening now extremely fast. But I'm not interested in trying to convince people who aren't in touch with reality "😂"
Black Hills get Treaty Broken, natives slaughtered then scar their most sacred of all Lands for all time. A forever reminder of injustice
reminds me of the videos you watch at many of the national parks before taking a tour/entering the park. gave me goosebumps thinking about when I visited rushmore. amazing trip that you really need to make if you are an american
it took my whole lifetime to make this
good job, i'm proud of u, and thank u for your service to THE FOUR WHITE MEN
Obama , Malcom x and rev. Luther kin faces will be added soon to celebrate the beginning of the end ofthe racial Oppression
Crazy how the UA-cam algorithm suddenly recommend this to me after freaking. 6 years
If they carved one of these in Russia, they'd call it the "Mount Rush B".
Batman should be added to the mountain.
lol
DarthCipient : added Bin Laden better.
Add Donald Trump
Ultimatevapor918 If that orange turd is added to Mount Rushmore, all the other presidents will move to a different mountain
I will destroy it and monuments of me will be everywhere earthling
Amazing monument, amazing country!. Congrats USA! Great nation on earth.
Stole this land from the real Americans, slaughtered them and then scared their most sacred of all lands.
It’s such a disgrace that they carved those into the sacred mountains
there just mountains you stupid injun.
Sacred? What's so sacred about rock and dirt that nature carved over thousands of years, maybe millions? What about what was there millions of years ago that got eroded away? Who should be punish for that? Mother Nature? God? Lol ridoculous
chemicalsam I hereby claim the Chartreuse mountain range for my people and declare it our scared land. My people being my immediate family of course.
You see how easy this is?
It feels strange to look at among rocks mountain
Wonderfull storry, ill definately have to go and see it some day.
_"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism."_
_"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."_
_"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."_
_"It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present, precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises."_
There's a secret plumber base back there.
I see you're a man of culture
Thank goodness they address the topic of the video's title
drouble dogma ball is an *apple* quenched
HISTORY LESSON: The Lakota KILLED many then took the territory of the Black Hills from the Cheyenne in 1776, in fact there have been several who called this area their's, the Arikara arrived by AD 1500, followed by the Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa and Pawnee. The Lakota (also known as Sioux) arrived from Minnesota in the 18th century and drove out the other tribes, who moved west. They claimed the land, which they called Ȟe Sápa (Black Mountains). The mountains commonly became known as the Black Hills.
American alpha males kicked as^ same as the others in order to gain this territory the difference is no one has been or will EVER be able to kick American patriots as^es!
If this was an ancient monument we'd probably assume that the civilization collapsed before it was finished.
Climate change => collapsing civilizations. So, be patient...
@@paulpaschulke8636 The neanderthal's cave fires caused the climate change that ended the Ice Age, so I guess you are right.......
snowflake.
@@paulpaschulke8636 Lol, I doubt we are the generation that will see the collapse of this civilization.
Mount Baldy would look much better without the white faces on the stone.R.I.P. CRAZY HORSE
FIRST NATION FOREVER 🔥
Also the first losers :)
@@saipanbrad Black Hills legally belong to the Lakota, you putz. Learn our history, if you want to live in our 'muriKKKa.
I saw the movie North by North West, Hitchcock film which was very much impressed me to see this clip. Thanks lot to Smithsonian.
How about the fact that the original plan was to have their full bodies too, not just their heads?
It looks better with the heads
They couldn't find enough granite for Roosevelt's "stones"
I mean, I like it the way it is, because if it was completed, the heads wouldn't be the main focus as they are now.
If you go around the back you'll find that they're all kneeling.
*Itwould look better destroyed tbh*
mount rush B
i don't get it
Big time rush?
Mount Rushmore is an awesome monument and powerful symbol in American History.
it's true about the motorcycles. Coming from MN myself.
Such a nice little tribute. Wonder how the natives felt about this
Dan Trebune people who care about other people. Duh 😒
@@tdubblz And why should I care about the natives?
Fiamma Nera Patrick you need prayer, colonizer. What goes up always comes back down. Your words and your attitude, and that of scores of humans such as yourself, will be the burden of our whole nation. We won’t be on top forever. You always pay for your sins.
@@tdubblz You still haven't answered my question.
Fiamma Nera Patrick either you can’t read or you can’t interpret.
I love this country! The USA!
FDR should be next on MT. RUSHMORE . He got us out of the great depression/ ww2. created social security and only president to serve 4 terms.
Daniel Nelson Franklin Delenoe Rominoski? Kramers nemesis in Seinfeld. I agree.
@Councilman Les Wynan I believe Daniel meant that FDR should be added next to the existing sculptures.
It was originally supposed to go down to the presidents' waists. You can see the rough carving of what would've been Lincoln's hand on his coat.
Someday, i'll go visit that :)
This comment section is so toxic.
unAMERICANess has its polarity increasingly matched by the right... the right has been catching up...
1st, 3rd, 16th and 26th Presidents, all all selected for notable reasons.
If it were being constructed today, would any America choose and additional presidents?
F.D.R and maybe JFK
@@CumLordGary
According to Napoleon Hill in his book Think and Grow Rich, Lincoln was a failure at every thing he did until he met the love of his life Ann Rutledge.
They should finish it. When you visit it they have a model of the original plan. It would have had more detail, of clothing etc. The Great Depression slowed funding and caused the monument to not be completely finished.
Shag Wellington - No, you don’t finish another artist’s work. It would be like finishing Stuart’s portrait of Washington. Unthinkable!
The four Presidents on Mt. Rushmore, each one lived on the planet the SAME time as the other at one point:
George Washington was 11 years old when Thomas Jefferson was born.
Thomas Jefferson was 17 years old when Abraham Lincoln was born.
Abraham Lincoln was 49 years old when Theodore Roosevelt was born...
I live there love seeing the tourist
When my parents were born, none of the carvings existed yet. Whoa.... Not until they were 9 & 11 years old, was the first one on there... trying to get my head around that...
Legend says near Mount Rushmore is a hidden village. I believe a leaf village..
I found gold in a very secret place in and around Mount Rushmore
Where will Trump be carved?
Maybe a prison cell
On his gravestone
Then native Americans will point the middle finger at the monument and people will confuse them with Latinos
Quest Cooks Did I say I know anything about the native Americans? Also why are you so triggered? I just got this from a Reddit post. Don’t turn this shit into a fight
Granite wow beautiful
finally a good narrator
its very fitting
I wonder if we will ever create anything like this ever again in America.
count on it! america is brimming with idiots
Dunno...do the Native Americans have any land left for the US to steal, in order to create another such carving on stolen land?
@@johngalt8279 the land never belonged to them.
@@KFrost-fx7dt 😂
Where’s Jebediah Springfield?!? The man killed a bear with his bare hands!!!!
I saw Mount Rushmore from A helicopter one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen not only Mount Rushmore but the landscape around it
I’m Filipino and I wish to see Mt. Rushmore and the Lincoln memorial with my own eyes someday because Abraham Lincoln is one of my heroes 😍
Check out the Crazy Horse carving on a mountain nearby. It's worth a look if you have come that far.
Why?
@@JihadBunnydick its wonderful
@@JihadBunnydick Filipinos have inferiority complex towards those who colonized them
Konoha's great stone faces 😂
Lind hiden in the guns
@@mwplayer3778 😂
Such precision
What if one missed
The Original is on the Deep Purple Album cover call In Rock
I’m sick of the Democrats trying to shame this Great Nation. Our Hero’s fought and many Brave Americans died for all of us to have this Great Free Nation, and opportunities for everybody. They deserve honor and respect. Times were different and all Nations were conquered with a violent History. It took courage and strength,we must celebrate our Heroes. Punk Kids are being paid to destroy them by jealous Communist and Enemies. We are Proud, and will never be shamed! “God BlessAmerica,” “Land of the Free”.
Good thing they didn't put the 10 commandments on it, as they would need to tear it down in this day in age.
I loved Mount Rushmore. I wished that I be born in United State of America
If I could sit on my grandfathers head?
Go see Crazy Horse
Its awesome
Agreed!
its only looking about 5% complete
We will never see it finished.
Unfortunately, the work also represents the US blatant disregard & disrespect for the 1st People of this land.
Tell me who that was
David Freeman
"US"
Facts disprove that ,sorry
David Freeman
Facts:
The "Laramie Treaty" of 1851 & the "Sioux Treaty" of 1868 were both broken by the US.
Congress passed an appropriations bill in February 1851 to allow Commissioner of Indain Affairs Luke Lea to negotiate with the Native Americans. The Fort Laramie Treaty was developed to prevent further harm of the natural resources in the Black Hills.
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The Black Hills of Dakota are sacred to the Sioux Indians. In the 1868 treaty, signed at Fort Laramie and other military posts in Sioux country, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people.
@@saint6563 - nice. It's 2019 and nothing we can do about all that now. I refuse to be punished or blamed for shit that happened 200 years before i was born. This is now, move on.
Borglum was an active member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons (the Freemasons), raised in Howard Lodge #35, New York City, on June 10, 1904, and serving as its Worshipful Master 1910-11. In 1915, he was appointed Grand Representative of the Grand Lodge of Denmark near the Grand Lodge of New York. He received his Scottish Rite Degrees in the New York City Consistory on October 25, 1907
A piece of real Art! Wauw!
Awesome stunning carvings of gutzon borglum and his son what great talent