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==In film and the arts== {{Main|Scouting in popular culture}} The Scout Movement has been a facet of culture during most of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in many countries; numerous films and artwork focus on the subject.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dubill|first=Andy|year=2005|title=Scouts on the Silver Screen|journal=International Scouting Collectors Association Journal |volume=5|issue=2|pages=28β31}}</ref> Movie critic Roger Ebert mentioned the scene in which the young Boy Scout, [[Indiana Jones (character)|Indiana Jones]], discovers the Cross of Coronado in the movie ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'', as "when he discovers his life mission".<ref name=Ebert>{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|title=Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |date=May 24, 1989|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19890524/REVIEWS/905240301/1023|access-date=November 30, 2012}}</ref> The works of painters [[Ernest Stafford Carlos]], [[Norman Rockwell]], [[Pierre Joubert (illustrator)|Pierre Joubert]] and [[Joseph Csatari]] and the 1966 film ''[[Follow Me, Boys!]]'' are prime examples of this ethos. Scout are often portrayed in a humorous manner, as in the 1989 film ''[[Troop Beverly Hills]]'', the 2005 film ''[[Down and Derby]]'', and the film ''{{ill|Scout Camp (film)|lt=Scout Camp|qid=Q126370056}}''.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1288505|title=Scout Camp|work=IMDB}}</ref> In 1980, [[Scottish people|Scottish]] singer and songwriter [[Gerry Rafferty]] recorded ''I was a Boy Scout'' as part of his ''Snakes and Ladders'' album.<ref name="I was">{{cite web |year=1980 |url=http://www.thelyricarchive.com/song/781952-105849/I-Was-a-Boy-Scout |title=Gerry Rafferty β I was a Boy Scout |work=Song lyrics |access-date=December 8, 2006}}</ref>
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