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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 3 mins 39 secs Credits: Ken Ellwood Genre: Home Movie
Subject: Travel
Summary A home movie by Ken Ellwood featuring a couple and a younger woman walking around the township of Smithville near Atlantic City passing The Lobster Pot seafood restaurant and the sailboat Thomas M. Freeman moored in the harbour. In Atlantic City itself the three of them walk along the boardwalk of passing tourists and police officers.
Description
A home movie by Ken Ellwood featuring a couple and a younger woman walking around the township of Smithville near Atlantic City passing The Lobster Pot seafood restaurant and the sailboat Thomas M. Freeman moored in the harbour. In Atlantic City itself the three of them walk along the boardwalk of passing tourists and police officers.
The sign for ‘The Lobster Pot’ seafood restaurant changes to a couple and a young woman walking along a pavement. A horse-drawn carriage passes, and the couple...
A home movie by Ken Ellwood featuring a couple and a younger woman walking around the township of Smithville near Atlantic City passing The Lobster Pot seafood restaurant and the sailboat Thomas M. Freeman moored in the harbour. In Atlantic City itself the three of them walk along the boardwalk of passing tourists and police officers.
The sign for ‘The Lobster Pot’ seafood restaurant changes to a couple and a young woman walking along a pavement. A horse-drawn carriage passes, and the couple walk past a ‘Antique Centre’. They walk across a small-town square around a tree with a colourful flowerbed towards a harbour where the sailing boat Thomas M. Freeman is moored. A sign attached to a nearby post provides more information. A woman walks along a boardwalk posing with the boat in the background. Three toy motorboats on the water near to the Oliphant Grist Mill, its waterwheel turning.
A large stone marks the spot of the first settler to Atlantic City, nearby a statue of Christopher Columbus with a gull standing on his head. The couple walk to the corner of Atlantic and Arkansas Avenue changes to a second road sign for Pacific and Arkansas Avenue.
A police officer speaks with three women standing at a crossroads changes the couples and young woman standing amongst a crowd outside ‘Caesars Broadway Regency’ hotel. They walk away, the young woman giving her thumbs down.
The couple and young woman mingle amounts the crowds walking along the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Two African American police officers walk past, a tourist tram also passes. At a nearby theatre an advertising hoarding for Diana Ross who is performing there. The film ends on a brief shot of a man in a rowing boat in the sea.