HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY 1960s HUMBLE OIL PROMOTIONAL FILM MD46144

“The Land Called New Jersey” is a color film that portrays 300 years of progress in New Jersey and the contributions of the citizens of the state to the history of the United States. Produced by Humble Oil & Refining Company in the early 1960s, it includes sequences on the granting and the naming of the state, on the colonial period, on early industry and transportation, and on Thomas Edison and the age of invention. The program describes the industries, educational system, cities, recreational areas, landmarks, historic sites and other features of 20th century New Jersey. It opens in 17th century England and a re-enactment at mark 01:18 of how King Charles II, who gave his brother, the Duke of York (later King James II), the region between New England and Maryland as a proprietary colony. James then granted the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River (the land that would become New Jersey) to two friends who had remained loyal through the English Civil War: Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkeley of Stratton. Scenes of New Jersey’s natural wonders are interspersed with illustrations and re-enactments of the region’s pre-Colonial days - including the Steuben House (a noted example of Bergen Dutch sandstone architecture) in River Edge, shown at mark 04:40, and a cedar plank log cabin at Hancock’s Bridge, shown at mark 04:57. Eastern New Jersey eventually became the new home for settlers from New England, with much of that influence still apparent in New Jersey architecture and Colonial churches, as viewed at mark 06:27. Western New Jersey, settled by the Quakers, still shows their influence, such as homes with patterns of glazed brick. Mark 09:09 takes the viewers into Colonial times and shows the Teaburners' Monument in Greenwich Township, commemorating the 1774 Greenwich Tea Party. We learn some of the five major battles of the Revolutionary War fought in New Jersey, and how George Washington (famously) crossed the Delaware River and participated in the pivotal Battle of Trenton (mark 10:00). At mark 13:07 the viewer is shown Ford’s Mansion in Morristown, which served as Washington’s headquarters from December 1779 to June 1780. Re-created scenes from post-Revolutionary War New Jersey follows, including tributes to its history as an iron producer, and at mark 19:45 learn of John Stevens’ contribution to transportation via the creation of the first steam[-powered locomotive - which took place in Hoboken in the 1800s. New Jersey soon became a railroad leader, helping smaller communities develop into more thriving locations. Perhaps the film’s greatest tribute is reserved for inventor Thomas A. Edison, introduced at mark 21:07. (It was in Menlo Park, New Jersey, in 1879 that Edison demonstrated the first successful light bulb model). As the film connects the past and the present while drawing to a close, the narrator reminds the viewer that New Jersey continues to be a leader in all aspects of research and development.
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[@MillerMeteor74]

Excellent film about this state. 4:01 - The Lenni Lenape are not gone. There is a significant population of them in Cumberland County, and probably a little bit in Salem County as well. 4:38 - The Steuben House- we visited that on a class trip around 1976.

[@chiarac3833]

We used to go to the Von Steuben house every year.

[@mitchdakelman4470]

This was one of the last of a series of travel films, sponsored by Standard Oil (Esso) and produced by John Bransby Productions of New York. For their time, they were outstanding films and reflect the era that they were made.

[@nycurbanist3616]

I went to Rutgers in New Brunswick and I always wondered why there seemed to be a belt of major town/cities running right across the middle of the state, can't believe I never thought about how it would have acted as a highway system connecting NYC and Philly. That's awesome

[@EdwardAmesCastellano]

So.. always thought it was Lake Apackon. But that's because I was hooked on Phonics. Then many years later on a return trip while driving out to Roseland we passed by a roadside marker and I saw that it said Lake Hopatcong, and by the way, yes.. it is Taylor Ham.😆

[@allenrosenblum3654]

I moved away from Northern New Jersey in 1978 and never look back. I live in Massachusetts now out in the country where everything is peaceful and quiet.

[@pattiec8156]

Born and raised in Bergen County NJ. So many towns are dumps now. It's unreal. Taxes are unreal. House prices and rents are unreal. The toxic waste is unreal. I left when i was 54 yrs old and came to Fl in 2001. Not only could i afford a house but i was able to buy a lot and build one. No state taxes or vehicle inspection.

[@Jonathanbroder]

Florida is no paradise either. Not by a long shot.

[@RIFFRAFF104]

I lived in NJ for 35 years. I left and moved to NC. Best thing I ever did. The only thing I miss from Jersey are friends and great pizza and bagles.

[@GandlafTheWhite]

@@Jonathanbroder better than NJ by far. That state like CA and NY is an utter shithole mess. Ill take FL anytime

[@johnorlitta]

@@RIFFRAFF104 and the pork roll?

[@lowell5561]

@@RIFFRAFF104 And Taylor ham and cheese sandwiches.

[@lovly2cu725]

They should have shown this to us in school

[@margaretbonanno654]

They did show us these educational films in elementary school in NJ

[@briansmith9439]

Reminds me of my school education in NJ and now that I know more, it is easy to pick out all the oversights and errors - like the misogynistic undertones: the Leni Lenape was a matriarchal society and colonial women did a lot more than make candles and spin wool. As for Edison powering the nation and designing the light bulb - complete fabrication. It was Westinghouse using Tesla's inventions that powered the nation - still does. Tesla was AC current; Edison was DC which was dangerous, the current hard to move any distance and needed power stations every few blocks, expensive, and unreliable. Odd that these things were well known when this was made but given the conservative times and backwards society, putting out crap like this that bent or broke the truth seemed perfectly fine.

[@iwthswlosl]

Watching this from old Jersey.

[@falconinflight6235]

Let NJ in 1984 and visited the state through the years and the political corruption has overwhelmed everything that was nice that I remembered growing up in a small town.

[@chasedirtbike4155]

I'm so glad Nj is the inventor of toll roads.

[@bscottb8]

"Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They've all come to look for America ..."

[@ronyeahright9536]

yeah and the pot hole

[@ikkenhisatsu7170]

NJ has a great history, but its present is a disgrace.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

Lafayette joined Washington's troops at the Moland House in Warwick Twp., Bucks County, PA in August 1777.

[@savagecub]

The people from New Jersey are all geniuses - just ask......they’ll tell you !

[@fp5495]

They'll even tell you that you need to lose weight and call you fatass behind your back, cub.

[@joeshmoe7789]

Yes, we will.

[@joeshmoe7789]

@@fp5495 WRONG! We'll call you fatass right to your face.

[@edwinsalau150]

@@MeeMee-gz5vp We knew it in the 50s! Look at it now in 2022! Let’s go Brandon and Company!

[@randycollins7910]

Thanks for posting this interesting video, I thoroughly enjoyed this history lesson. If the founding fathers could only see it now what would they think? Lived for a short period of time in Camden and was treated unbelievably nice by the people that I befriended at that time so many years ago. God bless the Stutzenberg family who were so kind and gracious to me and took me in for a short while. You will never be forgotten. A heartfelt thank you !!!

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[@gunnarmathes2803]

I love learning about my state. Also love that batsto is 10 min away and is a flashback to these times.

[@michelebeck4311]

1 thing about quarantine that is positive...... the large number of uploads by you. I'm never bored watching them. Most of this type of thing is gone or nobody's interested. I watch every single one. Kind regards from New Zealand.

[@bridgetc.taylor257]

Thank you

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[@phampshire6864]

Most densely populated state in the USA.

[@gnap3376]

With the most protected and undeveloped land , do your homework.

[@joeshmoe7789]

@@gnap3376 20% of the state are the protected Pinelands.

[@Markos581973]

you can smell it between Elizabeth and Newark Liberty Airport. The Jersey smell

[@jimmartin7881]

@@gnap3376 And the most EPA superfund sites courtesy of the chemical industry, lol.

[@lindabingham394]

most dense populationnin us duh huh duh

[@shannonbradley4699]

My high school is named Henry Hudson Regional after the explorer, Cool film.

[@inmeditatewetrust]

Fascinating history

[@Markos581973]

Nothing fascinating about NJ

[@geralderdek282]

I grew up in the tiny Boro of millstone where I'd heard of the leni Lenape Indians. We played around the millstone rock that was in front of the Dutch reformed church. The natives had ground their corn in it. Been in fla.since 76 the year we had the bicentennial celebration. The taxes were becoming to much to bear for the average working man even then but I'll always cherish my memories of growing up there.😊

[@ShortBusScotty]

This should be subtitled A Very Brief History.

[@ericellis7431]

Even though this film is probably older than me(or close to it) I love the history of the state

[@titusrider7948]

I remember seeing George Carteret and Berkley in Studio 54 in the seventies 😮

[@Felix-M.]

Camden Burlington Willingboro Trenton the Town Brick City Jersey City East Orange Hoboken Pirth Amboy Every Where Else too Shout out to Sea Side AC Asbury Park too

[@Markos581973]

You just named off every shit hole in Jersey, missed Paterson, Newark,

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

The history of your state is amazing, though. I wonder how many citizens there in those places you’ve named are aware of it all? Did you all have to take a NJ History 101 class in schools?

[@cathleenroberts4218]

@@Markos581973 brick city is newark and those of us who are from NJ don't feel it's a shit hole ty

[@petertothRC-FPV]

The Garden State🗽

[@rider65]

#statist

[@chasedirtbike4155]

This is an awsome video about NJ. I never knew some of the information presented here.

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[@Cha-y412]

The Democrats have destoryed everything theyve touched in NJ Essex County born and raised.

[@johnnyboy55]

Agreed. Born and raised in Burlington Co. Living in Camden Co. My younger brother said screw NJ and moved to Alabama 6 months ago.

[@robothunter1035]

It was the land called New Jersey, and it rode alone.

[@stuartb9323]

👍

[@cindydott452]

Edison's only real invention was the modern research laboratory. As founder and creator, he slapped his name on everything to come out of it.

[@donnatlaw6172]

And Tesla.

[@jimmartin7881]

I had a few great bumper stickers on my old truck, 2 that stuck out were "Go Falcons!!......and take the Braves with you!! The other was "Kiss her where it stinks,.....take her to New Jersey!" Got a lot of single finger salutes back in the day.

[@Markos581973]

Nowadays you get the single barrel salute

[@fromthesidelines]

Narrated by Norman Rose.

[@arturovaldes546]

No talk about the refineries built , and when you are in the nj Turnpike, you know you are passing Elizabeth if your car windows are rolled down.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

John Fitch, the inventor of the steamboat, was from Bucks County, PA. He was from Warminster.

[@ramel7792]

Walt Whitman_Camden, NJ.

[@sageywavey]

NJ died on October 3rd, 1965

[@coripuckett5596]

A little racist much?....

[@sageywavey]

@@coripuckett5596 I have no respect for people that use that meaningless term

[@mikehunt3436]

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASED!

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

What a hoot.

[@markiangooley]

Amazing that there was no Arrogant Oil…

[@shannonbradley4699]

I never knew that we were divided into West and East New Jersey. WOW!

[@Markos581973]

Shannon, you look like a stereo typical south jersey Cherry Hill gum-smacking girl

[@shannonbradley4699]

@@Markos581973 Ha! WRONG. I grew up at the shore. I am now a 56 year old woman.

[@Markos581973]

Yes Shannon. Of course you have to divide the side that stinks from the side that doesn't. Duh....

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

What’s it like growing up there? Did you have mandatory NJ History classes in school? What were class field trips like?

[@jamesgoetzke8393]

I never knew I was from East New Jersey. Lol.

[@RIFFRAFF104]

I got arrested at Washington's winter headquarters in Morristown for sleigh riding. Yup. Arrested for sliding down a hill covered in snow. But hey, that's Jersey for ya. Forgot about it.

[@sysuiu4533]

Hey wasn’t that Rusty Irish at the bottom of the Passaic River Falls?

[@anonymousjohn386]

This is taking too long, just get to the part when taylor ham gets invented.

[@cindydott452]

Yum!

[@teenchy]

That's pork roll to you!

[@anonymousjohn386]

@@teenchy communist south jersey blasphemer.

[@johnorlitta]

Pork Roll

[@mrExcellent101]

Is that Laurence Harvey as narrator?

[@redthepost]

Hilarious! The power of the Passaic River?

[@ernestpaul2484]

At one time, yes.

[@lovly2cu725]

there are waterfalls still there to this day

[@anonymousjohn386]

What a majestic river it is. Once the whippany and rockaway flow into it, the lovely smells begin.

[@gangmemberhack3717]

The thumbnail looks like its the title of a spongebob episode

[@bennydemario4624]

I've wondered what Atlantic City was like 200 years ago.

[@johnorlitta]

The Lenni Lenape Indians opened the first casino there

[@LiberalinOregon]

It was a misquoted infested sand pile.

[@maryannscribner1922]

Watch boardwalk empire

[@musicom67]

See folks, Winston Sharples, of Popeye cartoon music fame, COULD compose real, different music. WHY the hell he couldn't make anything this descriptive and subtle and professional to those damn crappily orchestrated Popeye scores is beyond my comprehension. Maybe more oil $$$ got him a real orchestra and perhaps hired an arranger, because this was well done.

[@mitchdakelman4470]

THE LAND CALLED NJ does indeed an original score by Mr. Sharples. Many of the films made in this series by John Bransby Productions often used prepared music library pieces, but not this NJ film which is long forgotten. The print you are seeing sits in my film closet.

[@user-lq9oi5jq3n]

Please

[@dirtlevel]

William Coventry looking like Bill O’Reilly lol

[@888jackflash]

Two terms: Crime-ridden and Polluted.

[@herbpalmerjr5562]

esso reptail money

[@Ua_Conchubair]

Ah new Netherlands now the recycled everything with jack Nicholson as a resident state i live in.

[@jayonez137]

Born and raised in Dirty Jersey in the 70’s and 80’s. Great place to grow up. Horrible place to stay. Cost of living is thru the roof. Regulations and taxed to death. NJ is the arm pit of this country And over population

[@jojohns1949]

When NJ was 90 percent white

[@savagecub]

“You from Jersey ?”.......”What exit ?”

[@gnap3376]

And where might you be from little boy?

[@mitchdakelman4470]

Originally I was off exit 9 of the NJ Turnpike which opened 1951-1952. I now live between interchanges 8 and 8A.

[@TyJamal]

GSP Exit 148.

[@mitchdakelman4470]

@@TyJamal That would be Bloomfield. Aunt Lil and Uncle Larry lived in Caldwell and we would get off exit 148 to visit them. GSP, I am off exit 130 and NJT it is 8A

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

What exit? Sorry I don’t get it. Must be an in-joke I guess 🤷‍♀️ At any rate, I wanted to ask did you have to take any classes that primarily focuses on the history of New Jersey in school? What’s school like there? Any interesting field trips to historical NJ sites in school?

[@padistedor]

I grew up in NJ and moved out in 1999. My heart breaks for they way NJ has been mismanaged and destroyed by liberal policy over the past 30 years.

[@novaseline4u]

Closer to the last 50 years, but yeah. Liberals have destroyed it beyond the point of no return. Damned shame.

[@MegaBait1616]

@@novaseline4u , agreed........

[@daughterofgod1211]

What was it like. I love learning about New-Jersey. I’ve lived in nj my whole life. I’m 13 now

[@CarStory]

@@daughterofgod1211 When I was 13, I could be out all day during the summer months and my parents never had to worry. I could walk or ride my bike to school without fear. There were more wooded areas and not so many houses and apartments everywhere. There was much less traffic on the highways and tolls weren't so expensive.

[@MegaBait1616]

@@daughterofgod1211 , N.J. was a nice state many years ago as in this video. Now with a 1 party blue system and all the stealing of tax paying people's money it sucks. Everything is so expensive from car insurance, property taxes, schools failing, super fund sites, N.Y. dumping off our beaches, too many people n traffic we live like rats. Only going to get worse do ur self a favor when old enough move out you will thank me, Be Well. btw, just name 1 good thing about N.J. just 1 ????

[@NewarkMale973]

Fail to mention the slaves that worked the lands....seriously just learning how slavery was widespread in nj from Cape May to Bergen County....

[@asuraazoth7137]

NJ. The most expensive state. The most densely populated. The strictest gun laws. Only state in the country where bb guns and paintball is illegal. And Phil Murphy. What a dump.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

A very "Humbling" film on "Joi-sey!"

[@timpriddy349]

ugh..........a place you CANNOT turn a semi around........n-e-v-e-r again

[@Markos581973]

From the looks of it West New Jersey got robbed

[@Thecorgially]

No mention of Freehold or Englishtown.

[@deewilson888]

So what happened to all those Indians who’s land was taken?

[@billhosko7723]

Or the Indians whose land was taken by those Indians... In the end, pale-face woman... the European tribe won and put a stop to the non-stop Indian conflicts...

[@deewilson888]

@@billhosko7723 Makes sense…thanks blue-face man 😬😀

[@kenk7451]

Lose the fake actors and fake videos.

[@nickt1262]

Then democrats (on the whole) changed all that for the worst because it was too good.

[@lindabingham394]

we gonna hear there funny talk?

[@alexifernandez6304]

We don't talk funny at all

[@ernestpaul2484]

Not until you compose your question correctly and use the proper words. Then we might just have a sit down and tawk about it.

[@alexifernandez6304]

@@ernestpaul2484 is talk not tawk

[@kenk7451]

Lose the f*cking time clock.

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[@EdKazO-Vision]

Everyone complaining about the current state of New Jersey should stop and think about the Native Americans driven from their homes. This is quickly glossed over in this feel good propaganda flick.

[@sageywavey]

No. I don’t care.

[@billhosko7723]

Ideat... u don't care about the Indians that were drive from their homes and lands by those Indians... The European tribe came and won, and put an end to the unending Indian conflicts...

[@bubbafudpucker397]

Most folks call it "The Garbage State" instead of "The Garden State" for a reason. What a dung heap.

[@allandavis8201]

Unfortunately I have never visited New Jersey, in fact I have only visited Georgia so I can’t speak from experience, but have seen documentaries showing the state, and I thought it looked very beautiful (in summer) and was a good place to live, obviously you have first hand experience, what is It really like? What is the reason it’s called the “garbage state”?.

[@RPenn-si2pr]

If you are calling North Jersey a dung heap, then I can't argue. South Jersey on the other hand is a nice place to live.

[@RodeoRides]

She ain’t what she use to be 👎🏻

[@mitchdakelman4470]

Lets consider I am sure you will find pro and con of all the states you live in, but NJ has a lot to offer, rolling hills and the beaches. Sadly, I do not like seeing the overbuilding in this state, its now the asphalt state, not the Garden State, a lot of apartment complexes adding traffic to the rails and highways. Despite this, I live in lower Middlesex County where there is still a lot of preserved open space. As to the film, it was made in 1964, and showcases the history of the state of NJ.

[@gregggoss2210]

N.J. was once a beautiful state. Unfortunately, urban sprawl, greed, and crooked politicians are destroying it. I live in south Jersey where the farms and forests are being replaced with townhouses and shopping centers. It does not resemble the state that I grew up in.

[@PatrickChewing]

If you start a documentary about New Jersey and don’t mention the people who were here first then it’s not a real documentary.

[@billhosko7723]

Ideat. Make your own Doc then... ideat. No one knows who was here First. Ideat. For thousands of years various Indian tribes were in conflict and war... among Themselves... The European tribe then won and put a stop to it. .

[@kennethbrown2438]

They did say that The Europeans We're met by The native people. So yes.

[@davidcarroll8735]

And, if you had watched it, the Lenei Lenape received two significant sections.