This silent, black and white travelogue is the second of a two part series (we don’t have part one) on the Regional Geography of New England. Covering Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine and New Hampshire, the film shows overviews of industry, towns and cities, historic sites, and a tour of some of the august institutions of higher learning in the region. Though not dated, we believe this film was shot in the late 1910’s to early 1920’s because at 08:52 we’re shown the Washington Elm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which died in 1923. (Trivia: at 09:11 the statue “The Lexington Minuteman” by Henry Hudson Kitson is misidentified as “The Minute Man” by Daniel Chester French.) Produced by the Society for Visual Education.
00:08 TITLE CARD Men pull fishing net into flat bottomed boat; full nets teeming with fish 00:33 Men scoop fish from nets into boat 00:48 Gloucester, Massachusetts: Fishing boats in harbor 01:12 Boston, MA: Fishermen unload catch 01:31 Provincetown, MA: Caught fish unloaded; crate of fish carried via tram to cold storage facility, men sorting fish 02:15 Lobster trap hauled aboard boat, man shows lobster to camera 02:53 Providence, Rhode Island: State House, Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. factory 03:16 Worcester, MA: Streetcar passes factory 03:45 Hartford, Connecticut: Travelers Tower, skyline from Bulkeley Bridge over Connecticut River 04:07 Connecticut State House, Bushnell Park, Corning Fountain 04:27 Middletown, CT: Connecticut River at low tide, church steeples, smoke stacks 04:54 Main Street looking South; City Hall, South Congregational Church 05:13 Springfield, MA: Court Square 05:31 Portland, Maine: skyline, waterfront 05:50 City Hall 06:08 State Street looking Northwest toward Congress Street, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Monument 06:25 Boston, MA: State Street at Kilby Street, looking East 06:48 Commonwealth Avenue at East Charlesgate looking West; Leif Erickson statue 07:12 Charles Sumner statue, pond in Boston Public Garden 07:31 Massachusetts State House 08:07 Provincetown, MA: Pilgrim Monument from MacMillan Pier 08:28 Plymouth, MA: Plymouth Rock in Hammett Billings-designed canopy 08:52 Cambridge, MA: Washington Elm 09:11 Lexington, MA: “The Lexington Minuteman” by Henry Hudson Kitson (Misidentified) 09:23 Concord, MA: Ralph Waldo Emerson House 09:42 The Old Manse (Nathanial Hawthorne residence) 09:59 Orchard House (Louisa May Alcott home) 10:20 Cambridge, MA: Craigie House (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House and Washington’s Headquarters 1775-76) 10:40 Elmwood (Oliver-Gerry-Lowell House) 11:07 New Haven, CT: Yale University Old Campus Courtyard; Connecticut Hall, Dwight Hall, Phelps Hall, First and Summerfield United Methodist Church, Woosley Rotunda 11:40 Courtyard, Vanderbilt Hall 12:01 Hanover, New Hampshire: Dartmouth College; Rauner Library, Rollins Chapel, Wentworth Hall 12:22 Amherst, MA: Amherst College 12:47 Williamstown, MA: Williams College; Thompson Memorial Chapel 13:08 Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College; Bowdoin College Museum of Art 13:38 Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology viewed from across the Charles River 13:43 THE END
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. In 1620, Puritan Separatist Pilgrims from England established Plymouth Colony, the second successful English settlement in America. Ten years later, more Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars, until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies in America. In the late 18th century, political leaders from the New England colonies initiated resistance to Britain’s taxes without the consent of the colonists. These confrontations led to the first battles of the American Revolutionary War in 1775 and the expulsion of the British authorities from the region in spring 1776. New England was also the first region of the U.S. transformed by the Industrial Revolution in the late 19th century.
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