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This Is New Jersey (1956)

1956 · Short film · 32 min

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Synopsis

This Technicolor color film was produced in 1956 for the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, and based on a 1953 John T. Cunningham book This is New Jersey. The film opens with a bird’s eye view of New Jersey (1:00), bordered by Philadelphia and New York City (1:12-1:28), Cape May (1:33) and High Point (1:40). Reminders of the past include a Revolutionary War cannon (4:03), Washington’s Headquarters at Morristown (4:06), Washington’s pistol (4:22), the McConkey Ferry Inn (4:40), where Washington crossed the Delaware at night (4:48-5:26) to secure his Trenton and Princeton victories (5:27). Oxford Furnace was built in 1742 in Warren County (5:46-6:00). The Mount Hope mining operation is shown (6:03-6:26). Steel cables are manufactured in Trenton since 1854 (6:44-7:17), and used on the George Washington Bridge (7:17). Steel goes into Singer sewing machines (7:24), tin cans made in Jersey City (7:31-7:46), irrigation pumps made in Harrison (7:48-8:00), the USS Hartley (DE-1029) made in Camden and launched November 24, 1956 (8:02-8:15), and merchant ships (8:17-8:29). Industrialization began in 1791 along the Passaic River (9:17-9:50). New Jersey is called “the Garden State” due to dairy farms that support 4H and the FFA (10:17-10:47). Various vegetables are picked (10:49-11:14), as are fruit trees (11:15-11:42). New Jersey has Thoroughbred horses (11:52-12:18), orchid farms in Middlesex Borough (12:22-12:43), and eggs sold at Flemington Auctions (12:47-14:11). Cumberland County…

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Running time
32 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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