THE LURE OF NEW ENGLAND 1940s BOSTON, CONCORD, CONNECTICUT VALLEY & MYSTIC 63184

The Lure Of New England, directed by Bon D. Grussing and produced by Martin Bovey Films in the mid-1940s for the Minneapolis-Moline Company, takes viewers on a short tour of America’s northeast. The film opens with shots of New England food, statues, beaches, rocky coasts, and covered bridges. Rural snow-covered New England (01:22) beckons to visitors with its scenic houses, fields, and churches. People check and empty buckets of sap on tapped maple trees (01:57). A man drives a tractor to plow the ground in spring. Another man plows a field with yoke and oxen. The film shows blooming flowers and apple blossoms (03:12), as well as several bird species nesting in the spring foliage. Next, the film takes viewers to Plymouth Harbor (03:56) and Plymouth Rock. In Boston, viewers are treated to Charlestown Navy Yard and the old naval frigate Constitution. Other highlights of Boston include Faneuil Hall (04:40), Bunker Hill Monument, the home of Paul Revere, and Monroe Tavern. The film then visits Lexington Green, the site of America’s “shot heard ‘round the world.” Concord, MA is where the homes of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott are located. In Cambridge, the film shows Henry Longfellow’s home and Henry Ford’s grist mill. Viewers then see the famous House of Seven Gables (08:44) in Salem. The film also shows the campuses of Harvard and Yale, and farms and villages of the region. It then takes viewers to Litchfield, CT, where Harriet Beecher Stowe was born. Historic Deerfield, MA features beautiful old houses (10:06), while the Connecticut Valley is home to large tobacco farms. Water is a major attraction in New England, and the film provides footage of rivers, covered bridges, people canoeing on a river, and waves of the Atlantic Ocean hitting a sandy beach (11:28). Viewers also see the rocky coast of Maine, a couple relaxing on sand between rocky outcroppings, and the rotting hulls of old ships. Old whaling ships are preserved at Mystic, CT (12:53). From there, the film moves to Gloucester, with its famous statue and the harbor where men unload baskets of fish. Viewers are treated to shots of the lighthouses (14:13) that dot the New England coast, as well as the dangerous rocky reef of Norman’s Woe. Lobstermen fish New England’s waters and pull up a lobster pot (15:00). People prepare a clambake on the shore of Moosehead Lake, ME (15:48). Men remove the baked clams, and people feast while sitting at long picnic tables. There is footage of children playing on the sandy beaches and in the water. A piping plover watches her young chicks. Two women sunbathe after landing their plane on the beach. Aerial footage shows the lighthouse on Nantucket Island, a view of the Five Fingers, and a sailboat race. A sailboat race is underway at Marblehead, MA. The film then visits the scenic village of Wellfleet on Cape Cod (19:44). A “pilgrim” greets visitors as they arrive at Cape Cod (20:44). A man harvests Cape Cod cranberries in one of the island’s bogs. Footage shows the region’s colorful autumn foliage. Men participate in a fox hunt (21:44), others use saws to cut ice on a lake. Other highlights of the film include the Old Man of the Mountains, the farm in Franklin, NH where Daniel Webster was born, granite and marble quarries, and mountains. Dartmouth’s campus is decorated with large ice sculptures (23:25). Skiers speed down the slopes in a race at Mount Moosilauke (23:48). Men compete in a cross-country ski race. Crowds gather to watch a ski jump competition (24:50). The film then ends with footage of rural New England during winter.
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[@Specter1065]

Brilliant! I love these kinds of films...

[@rickrickrick5317]

Those old colour films provide such an interesting experience

[@Sennmut]

Windows into another time.

[@johnshields6852]

Born in Boston in 1960 in 1st grade we'd salute the flag and pledge allegiance to the united states 🇺🇸🙏

[@rickybobby6579]

i love the 40's style of this

[@dl6732]

What a wonderful simpler time it was.

[@newenglandhoodstv4643]

I film places in New England today . Crazy how things have changed

[@SmericanthaEnzaenza]

would love to see old footage of when new england was mostly under the plow rather than forest

[@canaldoliliko3233]

Love it

[@christianbonneau5681]

What, is Rhode Island not good enough for the film? I mean, sure we're the smallest state in the Union but we have pretty sights here as well. We have Newport, Providence, Westerly, rural Foster and Gloucester, and my hometown of Warwick, birthplace of one of America's greatest generals, Nathanial Greene.

[@heatherr0420]

I've only been through Rhode Island on a trip up to Maine, but the little I saw of it it was very pretty

[@maximusaugustus6823]

I agree I am from Connecticut, we can't ignore Rhode Island

[@barringtonbryant1949]

Most marvelous , except for t00 short Summe ☀️ ✨️ 😍 ❤️

[@antipyrene]

0:57 that view hasn't changed much

[@Jiji-the-cat5425]

The only major difference is today you can see the skyline of UMass in the distance.

[@dabprod]

Love it.

[@sullysullivan1282]

Home!

[@sheremi91]

From Russia with love

[@stevenfromer3816]

Home

[@Thadsell23]

So no one noticed this is the plot of FALLOUT 4 a video game set in massachusetts for people that dont know

[@paulietteburnett7270]

Queen Neferterria Odom Catacombs

[@FloridaFotoDude]

I grew up right in the middle of all of this history in Massachusetts. I have to say that it all is so very beautiful. That said, thank goodness I got out of that 💩hole state. The place is disgusting. Certainly not what our Founders intended it to be.

[@comradebanana3392]

back when new england had industries, low taxes and snow.

[@amirouchethelionofnumidia7092]

What a beautiful voice what a beautiful country what a beautiful time what a beautiful 🇺🇸 America, all gone now. And we’re left living in a time where men don’t know they are men and women are as evil as can be !!!

[@imti7593]

Most people in this video are dead now.

[@thomaspenderel]

NH was once a friendly state but times have changed. The state motto in NH used to be "The Scenic State" aptly named due to many parts of the state are in fact very scenic. Now the state motto is "Live Free Or Die", militaristic sounding harsh words. I prefer the friendlier earlier motto instead. When I lived in NH there was no death penalty but now there is. Times for have changed in NH and not for the better.

[@Cameron5540]

NH isn't friendly anymore because that friendliness is what brought in all the idiot new yorkers, massholes and other city slickers.

[@mkvenner2]

Actually New Hampshire abolished the death penalty in 2019.

[@chrdvr6480]

Little men brought me herr

[@Zeta4]

the KZbin algorithm brought me here lol

[@gyromatical]

films for the disenfranchised boomer

[@helentrove620]

I enjoyed watching up to them burning those poor lobsters alive.. how inhumane!

[@helentrove620]

@Oliver Viehland I know it is a common thing/tradition but that doesn't make it right or acceptable. I realise we humans have to kill to eat but boiling a creature alive! ??

[@Sennmut]

@@helentrove620 How does the carrot feel when you boil it? Does the ear of corn hurt when picked and shucked?

[@helentrove620]

Poor lobsters, culdn't watch no poor

[@helentrove620]

No MORE I meant to say, just seems such an inhumane to kill to eat any of God's creatures....not supposed to anyway as states in the Holy Bible. Leave well alone!

[@ogxj6]

What page is that on?

[@Sennmut]

@@helentrove620 Acts 10:13 "Rise, Peter. Kill and eat." Genesis 9:3 "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things."

[@lightmarker3146]

The funny part is the clambake is on Moosehead Lake which is 80 miles inland . Those clams and lobsters would have been transported there ,and the seaweed too.

[@markleblanc3447]

Ahhh New England, the good ole days, Before it became the Bastion Of Communism.

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

You don't know what communism is.

[@markleblanc3447]

@@crixxxxxxxxx having traveled to the former Soviet Union many times in the Eighties I can assure you that I know Exactly what Communism is.

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

@@markleblanc3447 So you think that the states of New England control all means of production and that all property is publicly owned?

[@CarlaGates247]

@@markleblanc3447 If you know exactly what Communism is - that *all* property is publicly owned; there is no individual ownership - then you know that there is no place in New England (nor the rest of the US) where this exists.

[@markleblanc3447]

@@CarlaGates247 yes Carla, we all know about the Textbook Terminology of Communism, I’m talking about the erosion of Constitutional Rights by Tyrannical Government, the Nanny State etc. Do you live in New England Carla? Probably not. In which case I have no interest in talking to you because unless you have, you don’t get it. So go put your head back in the Sand, it’s Safe there.

[@michaelciccone2194]

Dumb KZbin infomercials

[@maximusaugustus6823]

I wish I lived back then, no crime, looters, smash and grabbers, freeloaders, woke mob, men in women's bathrooms, etc.

[@mkvenner2]

Maybe try taking the rose tinted glasses off

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

No, just a World War that killed 70 million and a Depression a few years before. Constant fear of nuclear annihilation. But keep on complaining about how unbearable your life is today.

[@user-uo7fw5bo1o]

Too many groaners of corny jokes! 😣😩😫

[@dieselwiesel8893]

I love these old skool films but their nostalgic charm only works if you make yourself forget that Black people during this time were being grossly marginalized and oppressed . . .

[@Jiji-the-cat5425]

That is sadly true, we have certainly come a long way since then thankfully. Of course, Massachusetts even back then was pretty ahead of its time and was far less racist than places like the south. Massachusetts had no segregation or anything like that.

[@rustyshackleford4761]

The Pygmy’s are being eaten to extinction in Africa by Africans.