[Chute Homestead—home movies] Reel 13

Datecirca 1941

Viewing NotesStage play with music track. Shot on a small gauge railroad probably on the Bridgeton and Saco River line. Footage of people in late 19th or early 20th Century period costumes, with many of the men dressed as train conductors or railroad workers, the majority of women wearing red handkerchiefs on their heads and a woman pushing a carriage carrying a man dressed as a baby. The footage includes people putting on their costumes and make-up, getting on the train, the train departing, people pushing a car off of the tracks, a man holding the train as a horse and carriage cross the tracks, two men clearing a man dressed as a hobo and eating a meal off of the tracks, a cookout, people dressed as Native Americans disrupting the cookout and activities on the train.