Home Movies: Prince Edward Island (1940)

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screening notes: Prince Edward Island. Begins in B&W / Empire Caicos name painted on hull and funnel / poster for Variety Concert to be held in D.B.C. Rec Hall, North Dartmouth, April 27 and 28th / INT North Dartmouth Recreation Hall dance / musicians and partygoers / 2 people in blackface / women, babies and others posing / seacoast and ferry / street by Monarch Ford dealership and Superior gasoline station / brief interior of food market / young woman jitterbugging (good) / musicians / man and woman walking on dirt road above town / changes to Kodachrome / people clowning in water / moving shot of steam locomotive, only 6 seconds but good (steam train running seen from car driving alongside) / change to B&W / birdcage / Maritime Central Airways airplane taking off / aerials of coastline, towns, etc. / family and 3 children outside small house / 2 kids approach camera / more aerials / driving POVs on secondary road / drive by radio station CFCY, Campbellton / more driving POVs along country road and in rural area, not visually too clear / back to Kodachrome / 2 boys holding fish on line / aboard S.S. Abegweit, homeport Campbellton / aboard ship / / fast driving POVs, passing sign for Economy Mountain / rural highway shots / steam train running seen from car driving alongside (good) / informal sandlot baseball

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17 minutes

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Prelinger Archives

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