Maine scenes and New York trip, circa 1940--Vernard I. Pierce--home movies

Datecirca 1940

AbstractHome movies shot by Vernard Price of 1940 travels to New York City, the Caratunk, Maine, Centennial Parade, and his logging operations in the woods near Bingham, Maine.

Viewing NotesNew York City, 1940. Reel opens with scenes of cars, taxis, and buses seen from above a busy street. Globe. Good footage of many neon and animated signs around Times Square, including the Cotton Club, Gillette blades, Chevrolet, Jack Dempsey’s Broadway Bar, McGinnis of Sheepshead Bay, Old Gold Cigarettes, Coca Cola, Wrigley's Spearmint, the Astor Hotel, and the Globe Theatre. Many shots of city streets and buildings. Shots from a moving car driving on the Riverside Highway approaching the George Washington Bridge. Cut to footage of the 1940 Centennial Parade and celebration in Caratunk, Maine, including scenes of the cars, floats, and horse-drawn carriages and wagons making up the parade to the town center, where people are seen watching the parade and participating in the celebrations in front of Clark’s Store. Among them are town officials and a man and woman in “Indian” costume and make-up. Cut to winter footage of Pierce’s logging operation in the woods near Bingham. Scenes include workmen removing logs from sled skidder, stacking logs and loading them on trucks, unloading logs into the river, riding a new tractor and a horse-drawn sled to pull loads over snow through the woods, and working on log piles in the river.

Creator

• Vernard I. Pierce

• Vernard I. Pierce