Lobstertown

Can DescriptionsNOTE: 'Lobstertown' is on WEGA Productions tape that also contains On the Road/Chronicle, WCVB story about Gouldsboro (which includes 'Lobstertown' excerpts). See ProCite record 11526 for description of the WEGA tape. ONSITE REFERENCE ONLY. Viewing notes for 'Lobstertown': Shot MOS; all sound (narration and orchestral music and effects) added. Lobster sorting inside the state hatchery in Boothbay Harbor. Tanks, lobster eggs, tiny lobsters CU. Barrels of ice, full of lobster, loaded on trucks. Corea: '175 people live here.' Pan of harbor. '55 licensed fishermen, every man but the storekeeper.' Uniformed 'warden' checks size of lobsters at dock. Dwinal Bartlett in a rowboat; boy stands up and rows. Father, Bernard Bartlett, man making wooden traps on wharf. Interior of Bartlett home, kitchen, woman at table. Darrell, older brother. Dwinal paints cedar lobster buoys. Grange hall dance, interior. Older people dance sedately, young couples dance in following sequence. Woman feeds chickens, laundry on line. Nancy Bartlett, young daugter, goes to elementary school--20 students. Boys go to high school by car in neighboring town. Interior of elementary school, one room for 1 - 6 grades. Whittling pegs for lobster claws. Children leave school on bicycles. General store interior, many men wear checked shirts. Men play horseshoes, women watch. Minister arrives (once or twice a month.) Interior of church, organist in a hat. Congregation rises for hymn. Views of lobster, under warter, entering trap. Bernard Bartlett rows to lobster boat. Motors away. Trap hauling; narration describes risk. Bartlett wears gloves, uses pegs to close lobster claws. Puts lobsters in barrels. No motorized winch, uses pulley.