Around the Lake and Over the Bridge
Identifier
F.2007-02-0002
Date Of Production
1955 – 1965
Abstract
Travelogue of cities, towns, and outdoor activities found around Lake Michigan. There is a wide variety of footage, including sand dunes, beaches, parades, many shots of flowers, ships, industrial ports scenes, attractions of historic horse-and-buggy town Mackinaw City, a mansion on fire, Grand Hotel: World’s Largest Summer Hotel, camping, rafting, farmers harvesting crops, and the Prudential Building in Chicago.
Log
00:00 - title card, CU map of Lake Michigan, MS wave rolling in, sand dunes, CU cherries
00:50 - MS flower gardens in tree lawn, little girls in bonnets, VS parade, people in traditional Holland dress, clogs and bonnets w/ pails sweeping water off street, dancing
04:06 - VS MLS people walking around flower gardens, CU flowers, box “Product of Holland”
04:55 - HA LS rural highway, PAN sand dunes, LS, TS MS people hiking up huge sand dune, FA kids running and rolling down dune
06:42 - VS “Dune Ride” cars driving to and on dunes, parked overlooking dunes
07:34 - VS dune landscapes, dead wood, scattered vegetation, Lake Michigan in distance, car on horizon, dunes at dusk
08:45 - MLS lake, gravelly beach w/ forested landscape, VS trees against blue sky w/ clouds, CU pines, cabin TILT UP pine trees
09:32 - Var LS ships on lake horizon, CU Michigan State ship, cars driving onto ship
10:24 - MS panels, architectural rendering of Mackinaw City St. Ignace Bridge, VS cranes constructing incomplete St. Ignace Bridge in var. phases, TS construction progress, Var LS finished bridge
12:48 - VS car POV scenery driving across bridge, exiting toll way, LS bridge
14:43 - MLS, MS people aboard Algomah II Mackinaw City ferry, CU boy standing at bow, LS houses and buildings on shore
15:29 - CU stone relief sign “American Fur,” MLS “Original Astor Fur Post” building, CU sign “Fort Mackinac 1780”, PAN, VS buildings and fort, CU canon
16:47 - MS, MLS passengers exiting ship w/ luggage, HA strip of old fashioned town with horse and buggies, MS man sweeping horse manure in street
17:40 - MS horse and buggies parked, driver helping passengers board carriage, women feeding horses, man scooping manure
18:31 - MS people riding bikes, parked bicycles
18:49 - MLS people riding, walking street and sidewalk, MS man and woman board carriage, RA children riding on back, horse and buggy TS
19:31 - MS sign “William Backhouse Astor” residence, MLS white house, buggy passing by, HA docks, town, Var MLS mansions, PAN floral landscapes, CU trees in blossom, MLS Island House
21:47 - PAN lake landscape, CU bark on trees, MS horse and buggy parked in woods, LS natural rock bridge formation, RA man sketching bridge, LS beach w/ driftwood, Var CU flowers
23:13 - farmers take horses off buggy at stables, MLS horses packed in a coral
23:34 - Var CU flowers
24:59 - MS trees w/ light under canopy, bed of flowers, HA forested landscape
25:31 - LS mansion on fire, MS firefighters drive truck to house, spray hose inside house, PAN onlookers on bikes, MS smoke engulfed house, men remove dresser from house, TILT UP roof on fire
26:41 - LS PAN colonial hotel, MS, HA guests arriving in carriage, MS row American flags, CU sign “Grand Hotel, World’s Largest Summer Hotel”, MLS SA porch lined w/ flags, LS lake porch POV, MLS guests on hotel steps, LS outdoor patio w/ pool in background, HA carriage leaving hotel, handheld PAN hotel and flower gardens, VS pool, sunbathers, divers, kids on water slide
29:51 - RA guests in lounge chairs in garden, VS flowers, gardens, sprinklers, MLS white house, trees, CU butterfly
32:41 - VS HA lake landscapes, ships, bridge, HA carriage at hotel, PAN, LS Grand Hotel
34:04 - VS gateways opening for ship passing through industrial port
35:22 - MS PAN people riding on open train, train TS landscape of pine trees
35:50 - HA Paul Bunyan boat, MS man wrapping up rope, boat TS pine tree landscape, tour ships passing on water
37:45 - VS waterfalls
38:26 - MLS men rowing rubber raft into river, raft POV TS river rapids
40:06 - MS man cooking meal over campfire, fishing, MS woman drinking from can, MS raft, Var MLS river rapids
41:15 - MS boy picking berries, LS rural landscapes, barns, roads, VS, PANS fields of crops, hay, man harvesting hay with farm machinery, VS field of flowers
42:54 - Var MLS trees with autumn leaves lining roads, Var MLS snow covered roads
43:32-43:49 - MS waves crashing, MLS Prudential Building, MS waves at dusk
00:50 - MS flower gardens in tree lawn, little girls in bonnets, VS parade, people in traditional Holland dress, clogs and bonnets w/ pails sweeping water off street, dancing
04:06 - VS MLS people walking around flower gardens, CU flowers, box “Product of Holland”
04:55 - HA LS rural highway, PAN sand dunes, LS, TS MS people hiking up huge sand dune, FA kids running and rolling down dune
06:42 - VS “Dune Ride” cars driving to and on dunes, parked overlooking dunes
07:34 - VS dune landscapes, dead wood, scattered vegetation, Lake Michigan in distance, car on horizon, dunes at dusk
08:45 - MLS lake, gravelly beach w/ forested landscape, VS trees against blue sky w/ clouds, CU pines, cabin TILT UP pine trees
09:32 - Var LS ships on lake horizon, CU Michigan State ship, cars driving onto ship
10:24 - MS panels, architectural rendering of Mackinaw City St. Ignace Bridge, VS cranes constructing incomplete St. Ignace Bridge in var. phases, TS construction progress, Var LS finished bridge
12:48 - VS car POV scenery driving across bridge, exiting toll way, LS bridge
14:43 - MLS, MS people aboard Algomah II Mackinaw City ferry, CU boy standing at bow, LS houses and buildings on shore
15:29 - CU stone relief sign “American Fur,” MLS “Original Astor Fur Post” building, CU sign “Fort Mackinac 1780”, PAN, VS buildings and fort, CU canon
16:47 - MS, MLS passengers exiting ship w/ luggage, HA strip of old fashioned town with horse and buggies, MS man sweeping horse manure in street
17:40 - MS horse and buggies parked, driver helping passengers board carriage, women feeding horses, man scooping manure
18:31 - MS people riding bikes, parked bicycles
18:49 - MLS people riding, walking street and sidewalk, MS man and woman board carriage, RA children riding on back, horse and buggy TS
19:31 - MS sign “William Backhouse Astor” residence, MLS white house, buggy passing by, HA docks, town, Var MLS mansions, PAN floral landscapes, CU trees in blossom, MLS Island House
21:47 - PAN lake landscape, CU bark on trees, MS horse and buggy parked in woods, LS natural rock bridge formation, RA man sketching bridge, LS beach w/ driftwood, Var CU flowers
23:13 - farmers take horses off buggy at stables, MLS horses packed in a coral
23:34 - Var CU flowers
24:59 - MS trees w/ light under canopy, bed of flowers, HA forested landscape
25:31 - LS mansion on fire, MS firefighters drive truck to house, spray hose inside house, PAN onlookers on bikes, MS smoke engulfed house, men remove dresser from house, TILT UP roof on fire
26:41 - LS PAN colonial hotel, MS, HA guests arriving in carriage, MS row American flags, CU sign “Grand Hotel, World’s Largest Summer Hotel”, MLS SA porch lined w/ flags, LS lake porch POV, MLS guests on hotel steps, LS outdoor patio w/ pool in background, HA carriage leaving hotel, handheld PAN hotel and flower gardens, VS pool, sunbathers, divers, kids on water slide
29:51 - RA guests in lounge chairs in garden, VS flowers, gardens, sprinklers, MLS white house, trees, CU butterfly
32:41 - VS HA lake landscapes, ships, bridge, HA carriage at hotel, PAN, LS Grand Hotel
34:04 - VS gateways opening for ship passing through industrial port
35:22 - MS PAN people riding on open train, train TS landscape of pine trees
35:50 - HA Paul Bunyan boat, MS man wrapping up rope, boat TS pine tree landscape, tour ships passing on water
37:45 - VS waterfalls
38:26 - MLS men rowing rubber raft into river, raft POV TS river rapids
40:06 - MS man cooking meal over campfire, fishing, MS woman drinking from can, MS raft, Var MLS river rapids
41:15 - MS boy picking berries, LS rural landscapes, barns, roads, VS, PANS fields of crops, hay, man harvesting hay with farm machinery, VS field of flowers
42:54 - Var MLS trees with autumn leaves lining roads, Var MLS snow covered roads
43:32-43:49 - MS waves crashing, MLS Prudential Building, MS waves at dusk
Run Time
43 min 49 sec
Format
16mm
Extent
1,580 feet
Color
Color
Sound
Silent
Reel/Tape Number
1/1
Has Been Digitized?
Yes
Language Of Materials
English
Genre
Form
Subject
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Additional Credits
Thompson, Warren E. (is contributor)
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