00:03Tonight, we present a landmark in television entertainment, Roots, the true story Alex Haley
00:10uncovered in his 12 years' search across the seven generations of his ancestry.
00:16After two years of production, we present this incredible saga in an epic motion picture.
00:22Roots, the current number one best-selling novel, is the television event of the year.
00:27From primitive Africa to the Old South, Roots sweeps across the panorama of a young America,
00:35bursting with all the dreams, all the joys, and all the hardships of a vibrant country and its people
00:41through the years of slavery.
00:46The Civil War.
00:51Reconstruction.
00:55And the struggle to survive.
00:58What do you want, you nigga?
00:59A film spanning more than a hundred years, generation to generation,
01:05continent to continent, slavery to freedom.
01:09Hear me, oh African.
01:12The flesh of your flesh has come to freedom.
01:17We are free.
01:21Roots, starring Ben Vereen, Edward Asner, Lorne Green, Cicely Tyson, O.J. Simpson,
01:27Linda Day George, Chuck Connors, John Amos, Leslie Uggams, Lloyd Bridges,
01:32Burl Ives, Louis Gossett Jr., Vic Morrow, George Stanford Brown, Ralph Waite,
01:38and introducing LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte.
01:40Today, now, we are proud to present the triumph of an American family, Roots.
01:46I am a real comme uma caresw incluso.
01:46I'm a foreign lecturer of my wife.
01:48I'm your company.
01:49I am a virtual creature of my life.
01:49I play on earth vim.
01:49Don't you not see me, do we have fun?
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