Moving Image:New England - Yesterday and Today

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New England: Yesterday and Today is a short film from ca. 1938 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

GS Plymouth Rock and memorial building at Plymouth, Mass.

New England: Yesterday and Today
Produced by	Handy (Jam) Organization
Production company	Handy (Jam) Organization
Distributed by	Handy (Jam) Organization
Release date	ca. 1938
Running time	19:07
Language	English

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Shot List

• 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 clich d 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 Ammonoosuc River
• 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