- Title: F-6406
- Summary: ROBERT FROST: ROBERT FROST LOVED NATURE AND NEW ENGLAND, AND THIS DEEP INTEREST IS REFLECTED IN MUCH OF HIS POETRY. THIS BEAUTIFUL SENSITIVE FILM PRESENTS ROBERT FROST READING HIS POEMS AT HIS NEW ENGLAND HOME AGAINST PICTORIAL BACKGROUNDS OF THE FOUR SEASONS. BIOGRAPHY. POETRY. AMERICAN AUTHORS. LITERATURE
- Description:00:00:15 - AUTUMN COUNTRYSIDE. FALL FOLIAGE. SMALL HOUSE. FROST WALKS ON HIS PROPERTY. LOG CABIN. ROBERT FROST READS POEMS. SOLITARY MOUNTAIN CABIN 00:01:13 - 2 HORSES PULL WAGON THRU FOREST. CU WAGON GOING THROUGH MUCK, PUDDLE 00:02:02 - POV DRIVING ON WAGON THROUGH AUTUMN WOODS. 00:02:37 - REFLECTION OF HORSES IN PUDDLE. FARM HOUSE 00:02:54 - WAGON PASSES HORSES IN FIELD. FARM. 00:03:15 - ROCKS IN A FIELD. FROST READS POEM. 00:03:41 - MAN LIFTS HEAVY ROCK. MAN WIPES SWEAT FROM HIS FOREHEAD. HORSE PULLS BOARDS FILLED WITH BOULDERS. 00:04:26 - NEW ENGLAND STONE WALL. 00:04:42 - APPLE TREES. APPLES ALL OVER THE GROUND. 00:05:19 - NEW ENGLAND COUNTRYSIDE. FALL FOLIAGE. HORSES GRAZE NEAR RIVER 00:05:46 - MAN PLOWING FIELD WITH WORKHORSES. ROBERT FROST WATCHES WITH INTEREST 00:06:11 - TREES REFLECTED IN WATER. LAKE. BOY WALKS ALONG LAKESIDE. THROWS STONE IN WATER. RIPPLES. SKIPPING STONES AS COUNTRY BOYS ARE WONT TO DO 00:06:45 - NEW ENGLAND BIRCH TREES. BOY CLIMBS TREE. TREE FALLS DOWN. BOY BENDS TREE DOWN, SENDS IT BACK UP BOY LYING ON HIS BACK. LOOKS UP AT THE SKY, SMILES. LIFE IS GOOD. BOY DAYDREAMING. FROST READS "BIRCHES" 00:08:03 - YOUNG MAN WALKING IN WOODS. FALL FOLIAGE 00:08:20 - 2 PATHS MEET. FORK IN THE ROAD. FROST READS HIS POEM "THE ROAD NOT TAKEN" 00:09:07 - ROBERT FROST MEETS A FRIEND IN THE WOODS, TAKE A WALK TOGETHER 00:09:20 - BOY RAKING WITH OLD FASHIONED RAKE. WHEELBARROW FULL OF LEAVES. 00:10:04 - 2 OLD MEN WALKING AND TALKING BY OLD BARN. ROBERT FROST AND FRIEND WALK DOWN DIRT ROAD. 00:10:29 - APPLE ORCHARD. MORNING FROST ON LEAVES. 00:11:19 - LOTS OF YOUNG MEN AT UNIVERSITY. NEW ENGLAND CAMPUS. STUDENTS. 00:11:45 - ROBERT FROST TALKING TO YOUNG COLLEGE STUDENTS. SITTING IN NICE SITTING ROOM WITH FIREPLACE. BOYS LAUGH. "ORIGINALITY IS THE WILD PART OF OUR NATURE" BOY NODS HEAD IN AGREEMENT. "MY DEFINITION OF ORIGINALITY IS FEATS OF ASSOCIATION" 00:13:37 - FROST WALKING WITH STUDENT OUTSIDE. 00:13:51 - COLLEGE BOYS PLAYING GAME OF FOOTBALL. 00:14:29 - SNOW ALL OVER COUNTRYSIDE. VERMONT. WINTER IN NEW ENGLAND. TIMBER. MOUNTAIN. EVERYTHING COVERED WITH SNOW. 00:14:49 - HORSE PULLING SLEIGH. SLEIGH BELLS. MAN STOPS TO TAKE IN NATURE. FROST READS POEM "STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING" 00:15:47 - SNOW ON NEW ENGLAND FARM. ICE OF TREE LIMBS OLD FARM EQUIPMENT. RIVER FLOWS THRU ICE & SNOW. FROST READS POEM 00:16:47 - RIVER, MOUNTAIN STREAM. 00:17:03 - NEW ENGLAND SPRING. NEW ENGLAND FARM 00:17:08 - SPRING FLOWERS BUDDING. REBIRTH. HUMMING BIRD. 00:17:23 - TRACTOR PLOWS FIELD. BARE-CHESTED FARMER 00:17:28 - CALVES COMES OUT OF BARN. 00:17:36 - HORSES ROMP. FOAL. COLT. 00:17:39 - BIRD SOARS 00:17:42 - COWS GRAZING IN THE FIELD. FROST READS POEM "...A CLOUD COMES OVER THE SUNLIT ARCH..." 00:18:00 - NEW ENGLAND STONE WALL 00:18:05 - NEW ENGLAND COUNTRY ROAD. PAN, FARMS. SILO. BARN 00:18:26 - FARM CHORES. FARMER AND SON PITCHING HAY. FARMER'S WIFE MILKING COW. 00:18:40 - FARMER TILLING SOIL. TILLER CULTIVATES SOIL 00:18:47 - NEW ENGLAND COUNTRY SIDE. LS FARM 00:18:49 - NEW ENGLAND SPRING. RUNNING STREAM. FROST READS A POEM 00:19:08 - MAN WITH SCYTHE IN FIELD. WIPES FOREHEAD WITH BANDANA. 00:19:39 - FROST WALKS ALONG NEW ENGLAND ROAD. RIVER. WHITEWATER. TAKES OFF JACKET AS HE WALKS. DIRT ROAD. PAN UP TO SKY. CLOUDS. 00:21:17 - NEW ENGLAND STONE WALL. FROST READS "...GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS..." POEM 00:22:36 - POV COMING OUT OF THE WOODS INTO CLEARING, MEADOW 00:22:56 - NEW ENGLAND MEADOW, TREES. MOUNTAINS IN B/G 00:23:05 - ROBERT FROST AND FRIEND WALK THROUGH THE WOODS 00:23:20 - FROST WALKS TOWARD STONE WALL, PICKS FLOWER MAKING HIS WAY HOME, STOPS TO TAKE IN NEW ENGLAND BEAUTY, MOUNTAINS. SIMPLE LOG CABIN HOME 00:24:29 - FILM ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1962
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: F-6406