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New England Travelogue Movie New England Heritage Trail Md53154 (1965)

1965 · Short film · 28 min

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This 1965 color film about the New England Heritage Trail is presented by New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and produced by Bay State Film Productions. A girl runs to a Colonial two-story house. She looks in the window. Her grandfather fills crystal glasses and hits them to play a song. She plays them. The red goblet has an animated face that narrates the film (:10-4:25). The Seth Warner statue is a memorial to the Green Mountain Boys (5:00-5:10). A person walks across the wooden North Bridge in Concord (5:40). A boy and dog climb over rocks in front of a waterfall (5:53). Plymouth Rock is shown in its enclosure, followed by people in historic 1600s clothing sawing wood and cooking in a kettle at Plymouth Plantation. Mannequins depict scenes of the Pilgrims. A Mayflower reproduction is in the harbor (6:15-7:42). An early settlement includes a clapboard-sided church, two-story barn, cabinet maker, and mill. The millwheel spins up-close (8:00-8:48). A couple explores mysterious stone structures (8:52-9:35). Shown are a marble quarry, a granite quarry, and a stone street (9:36-10:40). The New England Life Building has dioramas depicting early Boston with Indians building fishing weirs; Reverend Blackstone and his house on Beacon Hill; filling in Back Bay; the Boston Society of Natural History, followed by the actual building); and MIT, followed by actual video. The marble building is built on the site of the weirs (10:42-14:05). Paul Revere’s home, gravestone, North…

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Running time
28 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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