New England: Yesterday and Today

New England: Yesterday and Today

Rejissyor: Handy (Jam) Organization. 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

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