- Title: P-16-19
- Summary: EARLY AMERICA: HOME & COLONY: HISTORICAL RECREATION. EARLY AMERICA. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOUNT VERNON. JAMESTOWN: A COLONY REBORN.
- Description:00:00:14 - FILM BEGINS 00:00:28 - PEOPLE APPROACH MOUNT VERNON, HOUSE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. WALK THROUGH GATE. 00:00:38 - VARIOUS VIEWS OF MOUNT VERNON ESTATE IN VIRGINIA 00:00:48 - INTERIOR. HEARTH, FIREPLACE. COOKING UTENSILS, ETC. 00:01:03 - GEORGE WASHINGTON'S TOMB 00:01:08 - WASHINGTON'S SARCOPHAGUS 00:01:18 - XLS MOUNT VERNON 00:01:53 - XLS MOUNT VERNON (DIFFERENT ANGLE). 00:01:58 - CU TOP OF SPIRE WITH WEATHER VANE. TOURISTS, VISITORS ENTERING BANQUET HALL OF MT. VERNON. HEARTH, FIREPLACE. 00:02:13 - VISITORS DESCEND STAIRCASE WITH THEIR CHILDREN. 00:02:23 - CU PEOPLE HOLDING THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN, BABIES. 00:02:28 - HARPSICHORD IN MUSIC ROOM. 00:02:33 - WASHINGTON'S BED, HIS WASH STAND, BASIN. 00:02:38 - DOOR OPENS TO REVEAL THE WEST PARLOR. COLONIAL VIRGINIA INTERIOR. TABLES AND CHAIRS, FIREPLACE, HEARTH. 00:02:48 - CHIPPENDALE-TYPE GAME TABLE. 00:02:58 - WASHINGTON'S DINING ROOM. ELEGANT. 00:03:03 - LITTLE BOY PEEKING OVER RAIL TO LOOK, THEN GOING UNDERNEATH RAIL. CURIOUS. 00:03:13 - WASHINGTON'S LIBRARY. HIS CHAIR, ROLLTOP DESK. FURNITURE. 00:03:18 - CU FEATHER QUILL PEN AND INKWELLS (?) 00:03:23 - WASHINGTON'S GLOBE. 00:03:28 - VIEW OF POTOMAC RIVER THROUGH WINDOWS AT MOUNT VERNON 00:03:43 - SAME VIEW FROM OUTSIDE BUILDING, HOUSE. 00:03:48 - WASHINGTON'S HOME AT MOUNT VERNON. 00:03:53 - MORE DISTANT SHOTS OF SAME. SHOT FROM OUTSIDE GATE. 00:04:08 - DOORS OF FRONTIER TYPE FORT OPEN. SOLDIERS, GUARDS, KNIGHTS ARE OPENING DOORS. IT'S JAMESTOWN, AMERICA'S FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH, BRITISH COLONY, SETTLEMENT. 00:04:13 - MEN IN TRADITIONAL, HISTORICALLY RECREATED COSTUMES. CU MAN WITH SPANISH STYLE HELMET WITH FEATHER. LOOKS LIKE A KNIGHT. MAN WITH MUSKET, RIFLE OVER SHOULDER. HE WALKS AWAY FROM LENS. 00:04:23 - MORE VARIOUS SHOTS OF MEN DRESSED AS GUARDS. THEY PATROL, MARCH, ETC. SOME CARRY HALBERDS (BATTLE AXES, AND PIKES MOUNTED ON LONG HANDLES). 00:04:48 - HISTORIC RECREATION OF MAN BUILDING CABIN OF WATTLE AND DAUB. TWIGS AND BRANCHES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER, THEN MIXTURE OF CLAY AND STRAW ARE TAKEN FROM BARREL AND SPREAD OVER BRANCHES TO FORM WALL. 00:05:08 - WORKMEN USING TWO-MAN SAW TO CUT LOGS INTO TIMBER, LUMBER. 00:05:18 - CU SAW CUTTING THROUGH LOG. 00:05:23 - MAN BEING LOCKED INTO STOCKS, PILLORY. CU HANDS BEING TIED. FEET ALSO TIED. CRIME & PUNISHMENT. SEX BONDAGE. KINKY. IMMOBILE. 00:05:38 - LS INDIAN (NATIVE AMERICAN) LODGE, DWELLING, HOUSE. WOMAN LOWERING, CLOSING DOOR. 00:05:43 - WOMAN AS HISTORICAL RECREATION OF COLONIAL TIMES INDIAN, TIES UP ANIMAL SKINS TO BE DRIED. 00:05:53 - SHE JOINS MAN DRESSED AS INDIAN WHO IS CARVING OUT CANOE FROM LOGS. CU SAME. HE IS USING SHELL AND FIRE. 00:06:08 - LS COLONIAL SETTLEMENT HOUSE. GLASS HOUSE. INTERIOR SAME. 00:06:13 - VARIOUS SCENES OF GLASS MAKING, GLASS BLOWING. FIRES, OVENS. WORKERS. EARLY FACTORY. 00:06:23 - CU TURNING THEN TAKING OUT BLOB OF MOLTEN GLASS FROM OVEN 00:06:33 - LS MAN IN TRADITIONAL COSTUME BLOWING GLASS. CU PUTTING GLASS IN MOLD. 00:06:48 - CU TAKING COOLED GLASS OUT OF MOLD, PUTTING BOTTLE ON SHELF WITH OTHERS. 00:06:58 - VARIOUS VIEWS OLD SAILING SHIP. FULL SIZED REPRODUCTION, RECREATION, REPLICA OF THE SUSAN CONSTANT, WHICH LED ARMADA OF SETTLERS. IT IS DOCKED. VISITORS, TOURISTS CLIMB ALL OVER SHIP, VESSEL. 00:07:08 - TILT DOWN FROM CROW'S NEST. 00:07:18 - LS SHIP AND GANGPLANK AS PEOPLE BOARD SHIP. 00:07:23 - LS FULL SIZED REPLICAS OF SMALLER SHIPS, BOATS 00:07:27 - BOY HOLDING ONTO ROPE ON DECK OF SHIP. 00:07:33 - XLS SAILING SHIPS. DOCK. 00:07:43 - FILM ENDS.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1953
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: P-16-19