Movie Night At The Tuckerton Historical Society, June 4, 2015, 7 PM at the Giffordtown Schoolhouse Museum.
The Tuckerton Historical Society has a one hour and five minute silent moving picture made in Tuckerton in the late 1930s and early 1940s by Sylvester Loux, the then owner and proprietor of The Community Theater in Tuckerton. It is a very early use of a motion picture camera in documenting Tuckerton's history, and who else would have one but the movie theater proprietor!
We will be showing this movie as part of our next regular Thursday night hours (first Thursday of the month, 7-9 PM Feb-Oct).
Lincoln Mott has taken the raw footage and added a music track and some narration to it.
Many of the businesses and buildings along Main Street can be seen as well as many of the business owners and residents. Mr. Mott identifies many of the hundreds of people walking up and down Main Street in their fashionable clothing. This is a wonderful window into the past at people who genuinely look like they are having a wonderful time.
You will see:
A Memorial Day Parade
Trap shooting at the Tuckerton Yacht Club
People being themselves walking on Main Street mugging for the video camera
Students and teachers exiting school
Children at play
A glimpse of the Giffordtown School in its original location
Tuckerton Diner
Esso Station
The Carlton Hotel
Shag Allen's two nosed dog!
Watch as automobiles drive across the flooded dam in 1939
and much more!
See how many of the people, buildings and automobiles you can identify!
This is a wonderful preservation of Tuckerton's history by Sylvester
Loux and Lincoln Mott and their families. We are greatly indebted to them all for preserving it.
Come join us for the screening! June 4 at 7 PM sharp!
The Tuckerton Historical Society has a one hour and five minute silent moving picture made in Tuckerton in the late 1930s and early 1940s by Sylvester Loux, the then owner and proprietor of The Community Theater in Tuckerton. It is a very early use of a motion picture camera in documenting Tuckerton's history, and who else would have one but the movie theater proprietor!
We will be showing this movie as part of our next regular Thursday night hours (first Thursday of the month, 7-9 PM Feb-Oct).
Lincoln Mott has taken the raw footage and added a music track and some narration to it.
Many of the businesses and buildings along Main Street can be seen as well as many of the business owners and residents. Mr. Mott identifies many of the hundreds of people walking up and down Main Street in their fashionable clothing. This is a wonderful window into the past at people who genuinely look like they are having a wonderful time.
You will see:
A Memorial Day Parade
Trap shooting at the Tuckerton Yacht Club
People being themselves walking on Main Street mugging for the video camera
Students and teachers exiting school
Children at play
A glimpse of the Giffordtown School in its original location
Tuckerton Diner
Esso Station
The Carlton Hotel
Shag Allen's two nosed dog!
Watch as automobiles drive across the flooded dam in 1939
and much more!
See how many of the people, buildings and automobiles you can identify!
This is a wonderful preservation of Tuckerton's history by Sylvester
Loux and Lincoln Mott and their families. We are greatly indebted to them all for preserving it.
Come join us for the screening! June 4 at 7 PM sharp!