The Boston Tea Party

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1955

Creator: CBS Television Network.

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Reduction print of the 35 mm. motion picture made for the CBS television program You are thereWith film users' guideDescribes the efforts of the Boston Sons of Liberty to force ship owner Francis Rotch to send his ship back to England without unloading its cargo, the first shipment of tea to arrive in Boston harbor under the new tax act. Rotch is unable to get a pass from the Governor to let the ship through the British guns and men-of-war. The Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawks, leave for the wharf and the famous dumping of the tea into the harborProducers, William Dozier, Ben Feiner, James Fonda; director, Bernard Girard; writer, Arnold Schulman; narrator, Walter Cronkite

Complete Record: Reduction print of the 35 mm. motion picture made for the CBS television program You are there With film users' guide Describes the efforts of the Boston Sons of Liberty to force ship owner Francis Rotch to send his ship back to England without unloading its cargo, the first shipment of tea to arrive in Boston harbor under the new tax act. Rotch is unable to get a pass from the Governor to let the ship through the British guns and men-of-war. The Sons of Liberty, disguised as Mohawks, leave for the wharf and the famous dumping of the tea into the harbor Producers, William Dozier, Ben Feiner, James Fonda; director, Bernard Girard; writer, Arnold Schulman; narrator, Walter Cronkite