Film Record: Nequasset Bridge

Identifier:

• 0026.0001 (Source: oldfilm.org)

Date produced: 1957

Filmmaker(s):

Walter Mitton

Length:

800 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Northeast Historic Film list of titled amateur works

Description:

"Title, 'Nequasset Bridge is on new location of Route 1 near the famous ship-building city of Bath.'" oldfilm.org

Resources:

Part of the Everett Foster Collection, further information available at Northeast Historic Film

Locations:

• Woolwich, Maine (Filming)

Subjects:

• Nature
•      Water
•           Bodies of Water
•           Rivers
• Work
•           Architecture

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Everett Foster Collection, Northeast Historic Film

Viewing Notes:

"View of bridge. Lumber piled up in snow, shoveling machine moving through snow. Various shots of land surrounding bridge and rocks being hauled away. Close-up of material list. Pilings being loaded and sunk. Surveyors in action. Good medium shot of men and machinery, brace piles being driven in. Abutments put in place and fill-dirt trucked in. Bulldozers moving rocks. Stream being dredged. Numerous scenes of bridge-building under way. Traffic zooms by the workers. Concrete being poured, lumber being cut, pier caps being placed on top of pilings. Good view of framework. Fresh concrete being poured and smoothed. Equipment being rolled down plankway. Views of unfinished bridge, girders arrive and are set in place. A truck has 'Walter V. Mitton' on side. Boat goes under bridge. Sidewalk on bridge being constructed. The finished bridge with traffic on it." oldfilm.org

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