[Everett Greaton--home movies] Reel 83, Accession 2114

Date1947 – 1959

AbstractIntertitles: “Maine The Land Of Remembered Vacations” “Official State Picture, Maine Development Commission, State House, Augusta, Maine” Reel 83 is a promotional film about Kennubunk and Kennebunkport, ME, known collectively as the Kennebunks, with intertitles throughout. The footage includes houses along the water, fishermen pulling a net into a boat, boats on the water, people standing on a pier, a lobster shack, a woman painting a house, the George W. Bourne House, or the Wedding Cake House, a dilapidated sailboat, an artist with a row of paintings along a bridge, the rocky coast, people on the beach, men digging for clams with a pitchfork, or clam hoe, and putting them in crates, a line of boats full of crates of clams, a man arriving at a dock in a boat, unloading a basket of lobsters and dumping them in a holding tank, men unloading a truck full of crates and baskets with lobsters, corn and clams, men pitching seaweed onto hot coals, putting a sheet over the seaweed, dumping lobsters, bags of clams and corn on top of the sheet, putting another sheet over the food, pitching more seaweed onto the sheet, dumping water on the seaweed and putting a tarp over the whole pile, men unloading the pile of food and people being served by maids eating at rows of picnic tables. Donor Notes: “Kennebunk Beach/ clambake”

Creator

• Everett Greaton
• Maine Development Commission

• Everett Greaton
• Maine Development Commission