Canoeing in Maine

0661.0001
Museum of Modern Art Collection
Bemis, Moosehead Lake, Mount Kineo, Maine
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circa 1906
Actuality. Horse drawn carriage and wagon carrying canoes down carriage road through woods as men walk behind. Shot of river bank and logs floating in water. Carriage and wagon pull up, four men set up four canoes and leave shore. Cut to lake with high bluff in background Mt. Kineo) and approaching steamboat, blowing steam and docking. Boats are Twilight and Margarita. MCU of boat, LS of men loading canoes onto it. Boat pulls away. Boat reaches another dock and canoes unloaded back on wagon. Canoeing in lake and river, poor camera work. Men fish from canoe. In one view, a mountain is visible in background. Men and steamboat approach big group of logs and begin to gather them.

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