Fifth Catholic History and Heritage Presentation: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Here are the notes, filled with many links to further background material.

A bridge across the years:

Here's the very first motion picture made of a pope -- Pope Leo XII in 1896.  The soundtrack contains the first and only sound recording (an acoustical wax cylinder) of him singing "Ave Maria" in 1903, shortly before he died.

This is a brief clip of Pope Benedict XV, the only known motion picture footage of him, I think.

And here's Bishop Sheen on the 1950s TV Program, "What's My Line?"