[Raymond Cotton—home movies] Reel 4

Date1938 – 1939

Viewing NotesA snowplow comes toward camera pushing deep snow across a bridge. Several plows in the village (Hiram?) work to clear roads. Views of large circular ice saw on sled as men pull it across ice as they cut "creamery ice". Men use handsaws to cut blocks, then use crowbars to loosen them and push them along an open channel in the ice to a wooden conveyor which carries them up to second floor of an ice house. This is a group effort with each man having a role. Good shots of the floating ice, and interiors in the ice house as blocks are stacked in the house. A fish catch is laid out on the snow then strung for drying. Shots of river drivers in spring moving logs in river, pushing them under a bridge, balancing on the logs. Intertitle: "Mt. Cutlar [sic] School Presents OVER THE GARDEN WALL. CAST Mistress Mary Mable Mc.Laughlin *** Boy Blue Lucian Burbank *** Mr. Sun Leslie Clemons***The Dawn Beatrice Tufts***The Bluebird Lucian Burbank***The Gnome Robert Spring***BUTTERFLIES Hubert Wentworth Virgil Ward Roy Horne***SUNBEAMS Raychel Cotton Hilda Kaye Gloria Horne Charlotte Wentworth Louise Tron Geraldine Warren***FLOWERS Helen Kimball Virginia Clifford Helen Gilpatrick Ida Barker Barbara Dennett Marion Tufts*** FLOWER FARIES [sic] Ellen Spring Irene Tron Beverly Blake Jo-Anne Foster Marilyn Warren Betty Walker. Views Operetta or play with children dressed as flowers, sunbeams and other parts. Intertitle:"STATE GAME FARM DRY MILLS MAINE". Fawn in cage eats from human's hand, grouse and geese in pond, fish in pond. Scenics around Maine (Dry Mills and North Conway, N.H.?), crossing wooden bridge and scenes of Saco River (?). Man shows off deer he has shot and tied onto his car. Two men by a sluiceway on a stream try to break up log jam and logs come rushing down the river (Saco River?). Men move logs from shore of river to current moving down river ("scrubners logs").

Anecdotal Comments & ReflectionsRegarding the Mt. Cutler School production, the Hiram Historical Society in the Town of Hiram, Maine, is located in Great Ossipee Museum, formerly Mt. Cutler School.