1950’S HOME MOVIE “ A TRIP TO NEW ENGLAND ” BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS ELLSWORTH MAINE 44534

This silent home movie shows a trip to New England in the late 1940s or early 1950’s. It provides footage of notable land marks such as the Woodlawn Museum, Acadia National Park, the Bok Amphitheater, and the House of Seven Gables among others. It opens with footage of the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine constructed sometime around 1824 to 1827 (:18). This two-story historic estate is also known as the Black Mansion and had been owned by three generations of the Black family. Silver birch trees are filmed in the area (:37). The film travels to a lobster pound in Maine (:50) with shots of a man holding two live lobsters (:57) as well as weighing them for a customer (1:11). The cooked lobsters are prepared for a meal (1:23). The town of Bar Harbor follows with shots of the rocky water line (1:45). Shots of Sand beach are shown which is ringed by mountains (2:13). Cadillac Mountain is located within Acadia National Park on one of the small islands (2:55) called Mount Desert Island. A view is filmed from acro