New England: Yesterday And Today

Creator: Handy (Jam) Organization

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: GS Plymouth Rock and memorial building at Plymouth, Mass.; CU Plymouth Rock with 1620 engraved on it; Superimposed images over Rock: Pilgrims arriving by boat; Pan over Plymouth cemetery on Burial Hill at sunset; VS Boston: Beacon Hill; CU street sign at intersection of Louisburg Square and Pinckney Street; Montage of Revolutionary War scenes: statues, battlefield scenes, Lexington and Concord, Minutemen, Bunker Hill monument, troops ascending hill; Pan down Bunker Hill Monument, later superimposed with battlefield scenes; Continue pan down Bunker Hill Monument; LS U.S.S. Constitution “Old Ironsides”; VS Constitution; VS old sailing ships (clippers) in harbor and sailing at sea; CU mariner’s compass in cockpit; Gloucester harbor: GS boats coming in and out; VS fishing boats in Gloucester harbor, workers winding, inspecting, drying fishing nets; Windmill wipe to windmill rotating (good shot of rotating blades of old windmill); Windmill at Eastham, Cape Cod, Mass.; CU shaft of windmill grinding; Cliffs of Martha’s Vineyard; Indian potters at Oak Bluffs, Mass.; CU glass artisan admiring work; MCU, CU Old sailor talking to young boy on dock (VS); CU hand writing on pad; Writer Joseph C. Lincoln sitting in armchair looking over water; Shavings and wooden toys in Cape Cod; CU steam whistle; Ship pulling into Nantucket; CU lifering:”Wharf Rat Club”; Wharf Rat Club in Nantucket; VS street scenes on Nantucket, cobblestoned streets, buildings with sign “1772”; Vignetted scene of woman walking back and forth on “widow’s walk”, looking for sailor; LS lighthouse in evening; CU rotating light at top of lighthouse at night; LS lighthouse at dusk; LS Provincetown; VS shops, houses in Provincetown; LS town crier walking past houses in Provincetown; CU: sign for “Jethro Coffin House” on Nantucket; Interior scenes at Coffin house, including spinning wheel, horseshoe on fireplace, etc.; Old wooden figures by bench and well; VS clichéd interiors of New England replete with antiques, redolent of the past; VS homes and Colonial buildings of New England (good); CU knocker at Jared Coffin house (1823); VS Summer houses at Siasconset, Nantucket, Mass.; Emily Post picking flowers outside New England house; VS Diners eating at New England-style restaurants; Wipe to lobster pot being pulled out of water; VS lobsters being pulled from pot; Chef puts lobster into broiler; CU trays with hands eating and shaking salt; VS diners in railroad car]; LS streamlined New Haven RR engine on curve; VS interiors of passenger cars; VS POVs from railroad window, showing countryside; VS mansions at Newport, Rhode Island; Pan from mansion lawn to beach; LS Charles River with Harvard buildings in background; Pan up chapel at Harvard Yard; Pan down Yale University Library tower; Pan down Harkness tower at Yale University; LS Julius ___, painter of New England scenes; MS he paints; VS painters making pictures of female model and nature scenes; CU riders on train looking out; From train window, moving shot of beaches at or near Niantic, Conn.; VS swimmers on Long Island Sound, Casco Bay, etc.; People stepping into power boat; Power boat pulling away from dock (VS); Small harbor with small boats (VS); VS small sailboats in cove; Larger boats; VS Racing sloops off Newport, R.I. (shot from water); LS golfers on golf course with mountains in background; Tennis players on tennis court in Berkshires; Horseback riding in Berkshires; Hikers near Mount Mansfield, Vermont; Hikers against sky on mountain; Cannon Mountain aerial tramway, people on car passing by; POVs out of tramway car; Passengers mounting car of Mount Washington Cog Railway; VS trains on Cog Railway; Pan from top of Mount Cadillac on Mount Desert Island, Maine; VS Mount Desert Island; Pan of rocks along Maine Coast, spectators looking down at sea; LS Stowe, Vermont, church steeple visible (good New England town); Smugglers Notch, New Hampshire; Falls of Amonoosic River (check spelling); Waterfalls; Fisherman up to his waist in stream; Hikers at Moosehead Lake, Maine; Boat and fisherman on Lake; MS canoeist netting fish; Row of fish hanging on stick; Deer by lake in evening; People dancing at night in lodge; People hanging around campfire; Chefs cooking lobster at beach party; People eating at beach party; Bonfire on sand in middle of beach party; End sequence: VS superimposed over dancing flames: train, ship, old Nantucket streets, Plymouth Rock, many scenes from earlier in film