Settlers Of The Old Northwest

Settlers Of The Old Northwest Series: Westward Movement, No. 1. Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Blowing grasslands, forests, large river & forested island. Indians thru woods; men, settlers, walking w/ tools thru brush. 02:01:31 Map of Northwest Territory. 02:01:49 Costume revolutionary war politicians in wigs, frocks; arguing. View of forest. CU Northwest Ordinance 1787 illustration. 02:02:36 Settlers, farmers w/ horses, standing in grass w/ women & children. Meeting outside building. 02:03:04 Grass & covered wagons w/ settlers past, walking & riding past; thru town; loading on flatboats & poling down river. (multiple shots). 02:04:35 Settler w/ surveying tripod & surveying w/ man & post. Walk back to large log cabins, past sign Northwest Land Company. Men inside looking at plots on wall; men deciding what to buy. Man explains chain of title from Land Co. to Government. “Who did they buy it from?” “From your Indian friends...” 02:06:19 Men plowing w/ team of horses thru grass on hillside. Women bring lunch in buckets on pole w/ children; grab guns, run after Indians who are setting fire to grain or grass. 02:07:36 Men using crosscut saws on tree; clearing land. Family at log cabin; women sewing quilts, men eating, talking. Hunting. Fields, corn crop. Cutting corn by hand. 02:09:09 Log school, children talking in. Teacher in front of class. Men walking thru viillage w/ horses & guns. Judge arriving on horseback. Town meeting, arguing (MOS). 02:09:59 Man leaves cabin w/ kids playing outside. Others talk. Men in field shocking grain. CU grain. 02:10:30 Blacksmith making wagon wheel, pottery shop, barrel maker. Covered wagon leaving. 02:10:55 Map, market route. 02:11:11 Men carry bags to flatboat, loading & many men poling . Small steam boat w/ paddlewheel. Cnal & mules pulling boats. Map of Erie Canal. Canal network shown. 02:12:25 Early steam railroad, w/ multiple shots of engines, wheels. 02:12:36 Aerial over farmland, superimposed w/ map of states of Old Northwest Territory. 02:12:51 Cleveland, Ohio street w/ traffic. Chicago street & buildings w/ traffic. 02;13:08 Men eating in log cabin, talking; women quilting. Men w/ axes & saws thru woods. Harvesting corn field, drinking water by small stream or creek. Settlers in field. The End. Settling; Expansion; Myth; American Indians; Ethnic; Propaganda; 1960s Street Scenes; 1800s; NOTE: Very good quality.