1950’S Home Movie “ a Trip to New England ” Boston Massachusetts Ellsworth Maine 44534 (1950)

Synopsis

This silent home movie shows a trip to New England in the late 1940s or early 1950’s. It provides footage of notable land marks such as the Woodlawn Museum, Acadia National Park, the Bok Amphitheater, and the House of Seven Gables among others. It opens with footage of the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine constructed sometime around 1824 to 1827 (:18). This two-story historic estate is also known as the Black Mansion and had been owned by three generations of the Black family. Silver birch trees are filmed in the area (:37). The film travels to a lobster pound in Maine (:50) with shots of a man holding two live lobsters (:57) as well as weighing them for a customer (1:11). The cooked lobsters are prepared for a meal (1:23). The town of Bar Harbor follows with shots of the rocky water line (1:45). Shots of Sand beach are shown which is ringed by mountains (2:13). Cadillac Mountain is located within Acadia National Park on one of the small islands (2:55) called Mount Desert Island. A view is filmed from across Penobscot Bay (3:28). In the town of Camden, the Bok Amphitheater is spotted on Penobscot Bay (3:46). Stone steps are shot in the parks around the amphitheater (3:59). Boats bob in the harbor of Penobscot Bay (4:04). A car rides down a roadway towards Brunswick (4:30) as the Bowdoin Pines are seen. Two towers of the Bowdoin College campus peak over the tree line (4:37) and the red brick buildings of the campus follow immediately after (4:49). The Androscoggin River…

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Running time

14 minutes

Collection

Ephemeral Films

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• Stock Footage