Our New Home Office Building Under Construction (Film No. 2)

Date1939 – 1941

Can DescriptionsVideotape copy of New England Mutual insurance company film. FOR REFERENCE ONLY. Footage details received with film: - 'Our New Home Office Building Under Construction.' 1939-1941. Sound. 900 ft. NHF cataloguer's notes: Film 2: B&w. 'Our new home office in construction, June 1939 to August 1941.' 'New England Mutual will build fourth new building on Boylston [Street, Boston] and Copley Square. Scram and Furynor, architect. 'President Smith breaks ground.' Shovel and crane. People watch as 40 foot hole is dug. Grandstand built so people could watch. 'Frederick Johnson, archeologist in charge, found Indian stakes that proved to be evidence for the oldest inhabitants east of Mississippi.' Oyster shells. Indian fishing. 'January 1940 annual meeting.' Visited construction site. Many men trooping down to site. 'Spring 1940.' Steel work beginning. 'Maine quarried granite will be used. August 1940, corner stone.' Agency and home office staff gathered. President Smith gives talk. Smith flanked by insurance company men. 'New England Mutual Life Insurance Company banner. Third oldest policy holder, Mr. Fletcher Clark. 69 years ago he got a policy.' Shots of downtown Boston as building goes up. Finished April 1941. 'Let's swing it.' Quick cuts of building going up. President Smith gives a closing talk about wonders of NEMIC.