00:01:50 31 |
MONTAGE VARIOUS SCENES FIRST MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
RAILROAD IN THE WORLD WITH VINTAGE LOCOMOTIVE PUSHING OLD TIME PASSENGER CAR CARRYING VISITORS UP TRACKS TO FOOT OF MOUNT WASHINGTON. VIEW OF NEW ENGLAND FROM TOP. VARIOUS SCENIC VIEWS OF LAKES, FALLS. |
00:02:36 77 |
GREAT NATURAL STONE FACE LOOKING DOWN FROM PERCH ON
PROFILE MOUNTAIN. MONTAGE MORE SCENIC VIEWS INCLUDING QUAINT COVERED BRIDGE, SEA POUNDING ON ROCKS. LIGHT HOUSE. |
00:03:04 105 |
CU PLYMOUTH ROCK WITH "1620" ENGRAVED ON IT.
BEAUTIFUL PORTICO SHELTERING THE ROCK. VISITORS ON BALCONY INSIDE PORTICO LOOK DOWN ON ROCK. |
00:03:38 139 |
REPLICA OF PILGRIM LOG CABIN WITH THATCHED ROOF.
MONTAGE RECONSTRUCTIONS OF PRIMITIVE WIG-WAMS, HUTS AND DUG-OUTS OF OLD SALEM. CU WINDOWS MADE OF OILED PARCHMENT. |
00:04:22 183 |
VIEW OF OLD SALT WORKS WHERE SEA WIRE WAS EVAPORATED
IN SHALLOW PANS TO OBTAIN SALT. CU MAN RUNNING HANDS THROUGH THE SHALLOW PANS. CU BED OF STONES USED TO DRY FISH BEFORE SALTING. |
00:04:35 196 |
REENACTMENT: WOMAN IN TRADITIONAL PILGRIM DRESS
APPROACHES MAN WITH HEAD, HANDS IN PILLORY, PROCEEDS TO LECTURE HIM BY WAVING HER FINGER AT HIM, THEN WALKS ON. |
00:04:53 214 |
PILGRIM FAMILY OF THREE, IN TRADITIONAL COSTUME EXIT
THATCHED ROOF HOUSE ON WAY TO GOVERNOR'S HOME WHICH WAS USED FOR RELIGIOUS SERVICES. COSTUMED GOVERNOR MEETS THEM AT DOOR. TYPICAL FLOWERS, HERBS FROM DAYS GONE BY, STILL GROW IN FRONT OF HOUSE |
00:05:26 247 |
REPLICA OF PILGRIM SHIP "ARABELLA" WITH COSTUMED CREW
SITS IN FIELD. |
00:05:47 268 |
HOUSE BUILT BY JOHN ALDEN WHO MARRIED PRISCILLA
MULLENS IN 1653, IN ONE OF FIRST ROMANCES OF PLYMOUTH COLONY AT WHAT IS NOW DUCKSBURY, MASS. VIEW OF THE ALDEN KITCHEN. CU TABLE SET WITH CRUDE WOODEN DISHES. FIREPLACE WHICH WAS SOLE COOKING, BAKING IN PURITAN HOMES. |
00:06:10 291 |
GOOD SHOT OF PILGRIM WOMAN IN COSTUME AT SPINNING
WHEEL. PILGRIM MAN MAKING SHOES. |
00:06:35 316 |
PHARMACIST STIRS MEDICINES AS FEMALE CUSTOMER WAITS
AT COUNTER IN EARLY APOTHECARY SHOP |
00:06:44 325 |
FLOCK OF SEA GULLS FLYING ABOUT AT SEASHORE
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00:06:55 336 |
FISHING BOATS AT PICTURESQUE GLOUCHESTER. FISHERMEN
UNLOADING BUCKETS OF FISH FROM BOATS AS SEA GULLS FLY AROUND. FISHERMAN IN RUBBER OVERALLS, HELPS LIFT HUGE BUCKET OF FISH FROM HOLD OF BOAT AS WINCH DOES REST. SEA GULLS FIGHT FOR SCRAPS OF FISH ON GROUND. |
00:07:27 368 |
HIGH ANGLE TWO, PROTECTED BY LAW BABY SEALS, CAUGHT
IN NET, SWIM ABOUT |
00:07:37 378 |
VARIOUS VIEWS "DERBY WHARF" IN SALEM, MASS, PROBABLY
OF GREATER SIGNIFICANCE IN AMERICAN WORLD TRADE THAN ANY COLONIAL LANDMARK. HERE RICHARD DERBY BUILT LUCRATIVE TRADE WITH EUROPE. |
00:07:56 397 |
AMERICAN EAGLE STATUE ATOP "CUSTOM HOUSE" WHERE
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE HELD TITLE, "SURVEYOR OF THE PORTS". VIEW OF HISTORIC BUILDING |
00:08:26 427 |
OLD "TANUEL WILL" HALL WHERE, "TAXATION WITHOUT
REPRESENTATION IS TYRANNY" WAS CRY OF PATRIOTS THAT RANG THROUGH THE HALL, KNOWN AS "CRADLE OF LIBERTY". BELL TOWER ON HALL. |
00:08:43 444 |
QUAINT BOSTON'S OLD STATE HOUSE WHICH ALSO FIGURED
PROMINENTLY IN HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY TIMES. BALCONY OF STATE HOUSE, FROM WHICH DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS PROCLAIMED. |
00:09:25 486 |
SEVERAL VIEWS HOME OF PAUL REVERE IN BOSTON. OLD
"NORTH CHURCH" WHICH ALSO PLAYED PART IN REVERE'S RIDE. CHURCH STEEPLE FROM WHICH LANTERNS WERE DISPLAYED, SIGNALLING ADVANCE OF BRITISH TROOPS ON LEXINGTON AND CONCORD. |
00:09:45 506 |
REENACTMENT: SEXTON ROBERT NEWMAN ON APRIL EVENING OF
1775, PREPARES LANTERNS. "ONE IF BY LAND, TWO IF BY SEA". "ROBERT NEWMAN", LANTERNS IN HAND, CLIMBS LADDER TO STEEPLE. |
00:10:11 532 |
MONTAGE "REVERE" ON BORROWED HORSE RIDES AT NIGHT
THROUGH COUNTRYSIDE TO SPREAD ALARM. (REENACTMENT) |
00:11:30 611 |
LARGE STONE MARKS LINE WHERE HAND FULL OF MINUTEMEN
DREW UP TO OPPOSE THE 800 BRITISH REGULARS. CU INSCRIPTION ON ROCK. "IF THEY MEAN TO HAVE WAR, LET IT BEGIN HERE". |
00:11:58 639 |
NORTH BRIDGE IN CONCORD, WHERE FIRST ARMED RESISTANCE
TO BRITISH TYRANNY, THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE. POET EMERSON WROTE, "HERE ONCE THE EMBATTLED FARMERS STOOD, AND FIRED THE SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD" . |
00:12:30 671 |
FAMOUS BRONZE STATUE OF "MINUTE MAN", COMMANDS
APPROACH TO BRIDGE. |
00:12:39 680 |
BUNKER HILL MONUMENT IN CHARLESTON, COMMEMORATE
ANOTHER EARLY BATTLE OF REVOLUTION. |
00:12:45 686 |
HIGH ANGLE OF BOSTON COMMON, THE OLDEST CITY PARK IN
AMERICA. WHERE BRITISH TROOPS MUSTERED, AND EMERSON TOOK HIS MOTHER'S COW TO GRAZE. CHILDREN FEED SWANS IN POND. PEOPLE RIDE ON EXCURSION BOAT ON LAKE IN PARK. |
00:13:16 717 |
GOVERNOR'S FOOT GUARD, FOUNDED IN 1775, WITH RED
COATS, TALL BEAVER HEADWEAR, LIKE BRITISH PALACE GUARD, PARADE IN NEW HAVEN'S HISTORIC PUBLIC GREEN. |
00:13:47 748 |
VETERANS SQUARE RIGGER SAIL SHIP AT OLD PORT IN
MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT. THREE YOUNG GIRLS IN SWIM SUITS AT HELM OF SQUARE RIGGER. GIRLS CLIMB ROPE LADDER TO TOP OF MAST, WAVE TO CAMERA |
00:14:12 773 |
VARIOUS SCENES WHALING SHIP "CHARLES W. MORGAN" ALSO
BERTHED AT MYSTIC. VIEW OF THREE MASTS WITH RIGGING U.S. FRIGATE "CONSTITUTION", ("OLD IRONSIDE") STILL FLOATS AT BOSTON'S NAVY YARD. LONG ROW OF DECK CANNONS. HELM OF SHIP. |
00:15:21 842 |
MONTAGE VARIOUS BUILDINGS AT HARVARD COLLEGE STATUE
OF JOHN HARVARD SEATED IN CHAIR, IN FRONT OF UNIVERSITY HALL. |
00:15:51 872 |
"CONNECTICUT HALL" BUILDING IS STILL IN USE AT
HARVARD. MONTAGE OTHER BUILDINGS AT SCHOOL. |
00:16:17 898 |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON'S STUDY, PERSONAL EFFECTS, ARE
PRESERVED AT "ANTIQUARIUM" HOUSE IN CONCORD. |
00:16:26 907 |
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S WEATHER BEATEN "HOUSE OF SEVEN
GABLES" HE IMMORTALIZED IN HIS NOVEL OF SAME NAME, STANDS ON EDGE OF SALEM'S HARBOR |
00:16:40 921 |
ORCHARD'S COTTAGE WHERE LOUISA MAY ALCOTT WROTE
"LITTLE WOMEN" WHERE MANY INCIDENTS IN HER BOOK TOOK PLACE. |
00:16:49 930 |
CU CHILD IN NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC SCHOOL READING POEM,
"MARY'S LAMB", WHICH BECAME PROBABLY THE MOST WIDELY KNOWN CHILDREN'S VERSES COMPOSED BY JOHN ROLLSTONE IN 1798 WHEN TRUE INCIDENTS OF POEM TOOK PLACE. |
00:17:06 947 |
SUDBURY, MASS. CHILDREN WEARING COSTUMES OF THAT
PERIOD REENACT ACTUAL INCIDENT. BOYS, GIRLS IN COSTUME OF 1798, PLAYING OUTSIDE RED SCHOOL HOUSE. |
00:17:17 958 |
YOUNG "MARY" SKIPS DOWN DIRT ROAD TOWARDS CAMERA, IS
FOLLOWED BY WHITE LAMB. CHILDREN SIT ON STOOP OF SCHOOLHOUSE, WHICH WAS EVENTUALLY PURCHASED BY MR., MRS. HENRY FORD IN 1927, PET AND CODDLE MARY'S LAMB. |
00:17:46 987 |
SIGN "LONGFELLOW'S WAYSIDE INN. "1983" AT TOP, IS
INCLUDED AT FORD'S RESTORED VILLAGE OF SUDSBURY. THE SETTING FOR "TALES OF WAYSIDE INN", LONGFELLOW'S POEM OF FABULOUSLY FAMOUS PEOPLE HE MET AT STAGE COACH STOP OVER FOR TRAVELLERS. VARIOUS VIEWS OF INN. |
00:18:00 1001 |
REENACTMENT GEORGE WASHINGTON EXITING STAGECOACH AT
WAYSIDE INN. LAFAYETTE ALSO STOPPED THERE IN 1894. |
00:18:31 1032 |
LONGFELLOW HOME AT 105 BRATTLE STREET IN CAMBRIDGE.
LONGFELLOW'S STUDY. CU LONGFELLOW'S DESK WHERE HE PENNED MOST OF HIS FAMOUS POEMS. |
00:19:26 1087 |
CHILDREN, BACK TO CAMERA, LISTEN TO TEACHER STANDING
NEXT TO BUST OF LONGFELLOW. |
00:19:44 1105 |
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