- Title: VM-1494
- Summary: BOSTON: 1930s BOSTON TRAVELOGUE
- Description:00:21:49 - AERIAL PAN BOSTON COMMON IN HEART OF BOSTON 00:22:11 - GOLDEN DOME ON MAGNIFICENT STATE HOUSE ON BEACON HILL. 00:22:22 - AERIAL VIEW PUBLIC GARDEN ALONGSIDE THE COMMON. CONTAINS LOVELY LAKE, FLOWER BEDS & FINE WALKS. 00:22:30 - GREAT STATUE OF WASHINGTON ON HORSE STANDS IN PARK. PEOPLE WALKING UNDER IT. 00:22:39 - VARIOUS VIEWS PEOPLE RIDING ON STATELY SWAN BOATS ON WATER OF LITTLE LAKE OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN. 00:23:00 - LONG ROW OF OLD FOUR & FIVE STORY ATTACHED HOUSES OF BEACON STREET FACING THE COMMON. 00:23:14 - AERIAL PAN DOWNTOWN BOSTON WHERE HISTORIC BUILDINGS OF OLD BOSTON RUB SHOULDERS WITH MODERN SKYSCRAPERS OF TODAY. 00:23:25 - KING'S CHAPEL AS SEEN FROM ACROSS BURIAL GROUND 00:23:37 - ABOVE VIEW BUSY STATE STREET, THE WALL STREET OF BOSTON, IN HEART OF OLD DISTRICT. POLICEMAN DIRECTING TRAFFIC. TROLLEY WIRES OVERHEAD. 00:23:51 - VIEW OF OLD STATE HOUSE AT HEAD OF STATE STREET STILL BEARS THE LION & UNICORN OF GREAT BRITAIN (ON ROOF) 00:24:04 - AERIAL SLENDER TOWER WITH CLOCK OF CUSTOM HOUSE RISING HIGH ABOVE CITY. TILT DOWN TOWER. 00:24:16 - CUSTOM TOWER RISES BEHIND HISTORIC FANEUIL HALL, "THE CRADLE OF AMERICAN LIBERTY". FULL VIEW FANEUIL HALL 00:24:37 - FISHING BOATS WHICH BRING COD FISH TO BOSTON DOCKED AT TEA WHARF WHERE BOSTON TEA PARTY WAS HELD. 00:24:47 - OLD NORTH CHURCH WITH VIEW OF TOWER WHERE PAUL REVERE WATCHED FOR SIGNAL. "ONE IF BY LAND, TWO IF BY SEA". 00:25:15 - OLD HOUSE ON VILLAGE GREEN WHERE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON WAS FOUGHT. 00:25:27 - BRIDGE IN CONCORD WHERE EMERSON WROTE "HERE THE EMBATTLED FARMER STOOD AND FIRED THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD". 00:25:45 - STATUE OF MINUTE MAN. 00:25:53 - THE WAYSIDE INN AT SUDBURY WHERE LONGFELLOW WROTE MANY FAMOUS POEMS 00:26:04 - BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. AERIAL & VIEW OF AS SEEN AT END OF LONG STREET OF ROW OF ATTACHED COLONIAL HOMES. 00:26:30 - AERIAL PAN OF MODERN BOSTON WITH SHADOW OF PLANE GLIDING ALONG COMMONWEALTH AVENUE. 00 2- -- TRAFFIC ON COMMONWEALTH AVENUE. STATUE IN PARK ALONG COMMONWEALTH AVENUE. 00:27:05 - IMPRESSIVE PUBLIC LIBRARY FACING COPLEY SQUARE 00 27 -- TRINITY CHURCH AT OTHER END OF SQUARE 00:27:19 - AERIAL VIEW SPLENDID VIEW OF BOSTON'S CHIEF ARCHITECTURAL CENTER. 00:27:29 - MOTHER CHURCH OF CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS 00:27:43 - MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE TEAMING WITH TRAFFIC 00:27:51 - MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT) AS SEEN FROM HARVARD BRIDGE 00:28:00 - AERIAL VIEW OF MIT 00:28:10 - BEAUTIFUL HOUSE OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW IN CAMBRIDGE 00:28:18 - HARVARD UNIVERSITY WHICH CAMBRIDGE IS MOST NOTED. AERIAL PAN SHOWS HARVARD BUILDINGS ON BOTH BANKS OF THE CHARLES RIVER. 00:28:50 - WEIDNER LIBRARY AT HARVARD 00:28:56 - AERIAL STATELY OLD ELM TREES SURROUNDED BY DIGNIFIED COLONIAL BUILDINGS FORM THE "YARD PROPER" OF HARVARD COLLEGE 00:29:11 - MASSACHUSETTS HALL. IVY COVERED WALLS OF BUILDING. 00 29 -- STATUE OF JOHN HARVARD SEATED IN CHAIR. 00:29:38 - HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL IN BOSTON. 00 29 -- BRIDGE OVER CHARLES RIVER AT NIGHT. 00:30:06 - AERIAL VIEW BUILDINGS & SHIPPING ALONG CHARLES RIVER. 00 30 -- CU PADDLE BOAT
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1930
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-1494