Around the Lake and Over the Bridge

Cfa collection: Warren Thompson Collection
Subjects: Leisure; Tourism; Historic sites; Lake Michigan; Nature; Travel
Places: North America > United States > Michigan > Holland; North America > United States > Michigan > Mackinac Island; North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Shot 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
Cfa elements: 1,580 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/4335