https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9844be67-8b54-4538-b8b1-3aa96a9923b5 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com The New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce (1:53) presets a Bicentennial tribute to New Jersey residents; "Where Ideas Grow". It opens with history, noting popular thinkers and innovators especially Thomas Edison. Images of infrared photography of New Jersey (2:04) boasts fine sea ports along the coasts. Colorful images of a blue rolling Delaware swim up against the silver skyline of Philly (2:11). A view follows over the Hudson into New York (2:16). Lady liberty (3:01) and Garfield, New Jersey follow (4:20). The narrator digs into the landscape; sun kissed sunbathers sink elbows in sand (5:50). Rugged mountains of the northwestern corner loom behind. Fat green farm lands roll (6:08) lined by a lush tree line. Candy red farms stick out; horses nip out along white fencing (6:13). The Jersey seashore follows; pastel pinks, mommies and babies run for sea foam. The sun sets in orange (6:49). Footage shows (7:36) primitive tools used by the early settlers. Colonial homes and frontier life gave way to single purpose villages (8:39). A waterfall cuts over rocky cliffs (9:37). Alexander Hamilton and the Society for Useful Manufacturers, in 1791, made a plan to utilize Patterson New Jersey as a center of American industry as a way to reduce the new nations reliance on foreign governments (9:44). They utilized the force of the Passaic falls (9:49). An industrial plant stands in Patterson off Patterson Blvd Canal Parkway (9:54). The area pumped out cotton, silk, locomotive and air plane engines. An advertisement boasts Rogers’s Locomotive & Machine Works (10:09). Charles Lindbergh appears in front of the Spirit of St. Louis (10:23) prior to his 1927 Paris flight. Thomas Edison's (10:54) inventions are displayed in West Orange indulging the incandescent lamp (11:43). A model of New York’s Pearl Street Station (12:07) signifies the start of the electrical age. The Edison Museum features the phonograph (12:19). A recreation of the Black Maria (12:57) follows. Simulations show how it operated (13:16). John Wesley Hyatt (14:25) perfected the production of celluloid (14:30). A photograph appears of his celluloid manufacturing company (14:39). Vintage advertisements offers waterproof collars, cuffs and shirts (14:46). "Bakelite" (14:58) another practical plastic was invented by Leo Baekeland. Baekeland’s operation moved to Perth Amboy (15:08) and later, in 1910, to Bound Brook (15:10). These innovations were employed in the radio industry. A Pathe TRF battery radio (15:13) and other items such as a flashlight and combination lock (15:24) are featured. A woman meets her druggist (15:46). Transformation in the medical and pharmaceutical field are looked to (16:32). A chemist peaks through a microscope (17:02). Workers appear within the Institute of Microbiology (17:31) at Rutgers. Architecture of the industrial buildings were crafted to blend naturally with the environment (17:56). The wonders of Atlantic City follow (18:27); sun hatted ladies on the famed wooden boardwalk peak at the blue Atlantic waters (18:30). Salt water taffy is spun thick (18:35). Sand contrasts against snowy slopes (18:47) in a tour of the New Jersey ski resorts. Ski lifts cart snow lovers up the slope (18:59). Charles Seabrook’s (19:54) Cumberland county farm appears. Modern machinery harvests farm products including potatoes (20:17). Green beans are pumped out (20:59). Blueberries are plucked neat (21:15). Elizabeth White of the Pine Barons (21:31) is mentioned. The high speed metro liner runs over tracks (22:15). The Metro Park Line carts passengers between New York, New Jersey and Washington (22:19). Images follow from within the Port Authority Trans Hudson (22:34) running from Newark to New York. A view follows the tracks under a tunnel (22:44). Automated trains of PATCO (22:58) run from Lindenwold to Philly (23:01). The Newark transit station (23:30) and Newark international (23:47) follow. Shots move over the center building (24:00) as well as the stunning interior (24:06). Aerial shots of Newark’s (24:18) and Elizabeth seaport follow (24:24). Sea land containers are carted up by crane (24:46). A montage of inventors include Walter Barton (25:42), John Bardeen (25:44) and William Shockley (25:45). A Tell Star Tower (26:27) appears. This film was narrated by Hugh James (28:29). Reenactments were filmed at the Liberty Village in Flemington and Waterloo Village (28:44). . 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