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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221114-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1951
Country: Canada,USA
Location: IN,la,New Orleans,Quebec,Vincennes
TC Begins: 03:29:43
TC Ends: 03:39:18
Duration: 00:09:35
French Influence In North America Coronet Instructional Films main title missing Typical small town US main street - Coca Cola sign visible - awning w/ ‘Suburban Restaurant - Home Cooking’ - teenager Jack & younger sister Louise into restaurant. INT Louise looks at menu & points out words that don’t seem American - ‘menu’ - ‘fillet’ - ‘casserole’ etc. Title: ‘1534’ - map showing explorer Jacques Cartier’s route from France to gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada & first settlements of Quebec & Montreal. Statue of Champlain & early wooden settlement showing French architecture. French missionary outside chapel shakes hands w/ man dressed as stereotypical Native American Indian. Church built in Quebec in 1688 - one of oldest streets in New World - more French architecture - horse & carriage. Quebec street scenes - women talking on street - French shop signs. 03:33:09 Cut to examples of French influence in typical American town - store signs ‘Chalmette Drug Store’ - ‘Lecorgne Hardware’. Statue of Jesuit priest Father Marquette & fur trader Louis ? - map showing their route from Quebec to Mississippi Valley on mission to convert Indians - recreation of the two explorers canoeing down river. Examples of chapel, trading post & fort built by French explorers as they traveled through valley. Vincennes, Indiana - French style cathedral. Map of US showing French influence in city names like Montpelier, Detroit, Baton Rouge etc. 03:35:01 Louise out of restaurant w/ brother - wearing beret - walk past sedan car. Traffic past. Buy newspaper from sidewalk vendor - point to French words ‘Premier’ & ‘Bayou’ on front page - shot of typical Louisiana bayou. Statue of explorer Robert de la Salle. Map of US showing region la Salle named Louisiana after French king. 03:36:29 CU street sign ‘New Orleans City Limit’. EXT Parish Court house. Cathedral in old section of New Orleans. French Quarter - Chartres Street - French-style carriages on street - balconies. French plantation house outside city. 03:37:50 Jack & Louise walk down suburban street as VO points out French influence in US architecture - French provincial style, chateau - INT furniture in French style, French print on wall & French literature. VO summarizes areas in which French influences visible. High angle shot of small town main street w/ traffic. 1950s. Dress & Hat Fashions; Art / Architecture; Religion; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.