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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Reel Number: 221318-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 12:15:36

TC Ends: 12:31:51

Duration: 00:16:15

Oliver Wendell Holmes Emerson Film Corp. ext. of Federalist buildings w/ large shade trees; Harvard campus. 12:16:25 Int. “Seriously father, I don’t want to be a lawyer & poetry’s merely a hobby.” Talking over formal breakfast. Reads from newspaper “scrap old Ironsides”; suddenly quotes poem. 3-masted sailing ship The Constitution docked as museum exhibit. 12:17:42 Staged: doctor’s office in Paris. Heavy staged French accent by his instructor. Looks at skeleton & takes it down to pack for the USA. Studying in US, in lab, as a doctor. Writing w/ quill while wife & new son lay on bed. Reads letter he’s written to his sister. They talk. 12:20:34 Treating patient; three doctors talking about disease & lack of cleanliness by medical profession leading to deaths. Lecturing & lecture tours. 12:24:54 1857 & at dinner for start of magazine, Atlantic Monthly. Discuss Saturday Club. Ext. of brownstones. W/ wife crocheting he reads poetry he’s written for magazine. His son comes in, he finishes the poem. They discuss his writings & reasoning. 12:30:35 ext. of large Northeast home, Berkeley Farms. Interior reading in front of fire in fireplace. Pan along line of his collected writings. The End. History; Biography; Author; Architecture; Wealth;

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