Under the Great Stone Face in the White Mountain National Forest

Date1920

Can DescriptionsVideotape copy of USDA film. Summary supplied with the videotape: Highlights scenic sights in Crawford Notch and Franconia Notch, including a walking trip to The Flume and the Old man of the Mountains. Log notes supplied with videotape: (1:00:33) Fade up from black. (1:00:52) ''Men hang out their signs indicative of their repsective trades. Up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that -- here He makes men' -- Daniel Webster.' (1:01:23) 'Here, within a day's journey of thirty million people, is a playground which offers every form of outdoor enjoyment. One may tramp and camp...' (1:01:39) Party of people near auto at a roadside pointing to mountain peak. (1:01:53) '...and at night take shelter in rustic huts.' (1:01:57) View of Appalachian Mountain Club's Pinkham Notch Camp. (1:02:13) 'Or one may sojourn at magnificent hotels.' (1:02:19) View of the Mount Washington Hotel. (1:02:36) Pan of the Franconia House Hotel? (1:02:41) View of the Randolph House Hotel. (1:03:05) 'The professor was an enthusiastic camera hunter.' (1:03:08) Man setting up photograph of hiking party beside stream. (1:03:19) 'He brought his party to Saco Lake in Crawford Notch where 'land and water mingled, and the one seemed melting in the other.'' (1:03:34) Wide shot of Saco Lake in Crawford Notch -- taken from lawn of the Crawford House Hotel. (1:03:47) 'To Ammonoosuc Falls -- where 'beauty and life and motions as of joy greet them.'' (1:03:58) Ammonoosuc Falls off the Cog Railroad baseroad. (1:04:13) 'Echo Lake in Franconia Notch. 'Lake of the northland! Keep thy doer of beauty still, and while above thy solemn mountains speak of power. Be thou the mirror of God's love.' -- Whittier.' (1:04:53) Echo Lake, Franconia Notch. (1:04:56) 'A quaint inn marks the road to the Flume.' (1:05:00) House and entrance to the Flume, Franconia Notch. Party of people walk past house, down road toward flume. (1:05:18) 'The little torrent rushes on between frowning walls.' (1:05:30) Group on walkways in the narrow Flume passage. (1:05:40) 'Its icy waters struggle to reach the sunshine...' (1:06:11) '...swirling, curling, ever falling.' (1:06:34) 'On picturesque highways, distances are all too short.' (1:06:40) Auto drives down dirt road, toward and past camera. (1:06:54) 'Delicate and graceful in beauty and sweetness are the little mountain tarns...' (1:07:04) View of pond in Carter Notch, with edge of AMC Carter Notch hut in background? -- looking south. (1:07:25) Views of sandy beached lake with group walking the shoreline -- site unknown? (1:07:37) '...mirroring their pine-clad shores in placid waters.' (1:08:36) 'Peabody River near Gorham. 'In wild and virgin freshness its waters foam and flow.'' (1:08:47) Views of Peabody River from roadside. (1:08:58) 'Beauty, sublimity, wilderness make the scenery attractive, grand, exalting.' (1:09:06) Crystal Cascade in Pinkham Notch. (1:09:39) Pan of the Eaglets in Franconia Notch (a low ridge of Mt. Lafayette). (1:09:47) Wide shot from valley of peaks (site unknown). (1:10:36) 'And here nature has sculpted a great stone face, more ancient than the Sphinx -- the old Man of the Mountains.' (1:10:54) Views of the Old Man of the Mountains, Franconia Notch from Echo Lake. (1:10:57) 'Fifteen hundred feet above -- 'The giant image looks on them/full human profile, nose and chin distinct/mouth muttering rhythms of silence up [to] the sky.'' (1:11:35) 'Come with us and spend your next vacation in your own playgrounds -- the White Mountain National Forest.' (1:11:44) Fade to black.