Virginia

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

629

Date Released

12 Jan 1967

Date recorded

10 Oct 1966

Length of issue (in feet)

680

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Auto Cinema
2. 1Virginia

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 1

Summary

Pathe synopsis: We are discovering America. We are the first colonists who came to Virginia three hundred years ago, because at Jamestown nothing’s altered. This is where America keeps her history alive: stockades against the redskins; sixteenth century ships customs and clothing more than a world away from Washington where space-rockets parade at the Smithsonian Institution. But Washington has its heritage - the Whitehouse, probably the world’s number one stately home - and across the Potomac, Richmond, capital of tobacco country, where in fast moving America, nature dictates the pace, like it carves weird and wonderful rock formations in the limestone mountain, but nature loses out against engineering ingenuity across Chesapeake Bay. A seventeen-mile bridge-tunnel cuts an hour-and-a-half off the southward journey to the seemingly endless shore of Virginia Beach. If you think there’s no Wild West back east in Virginia you’re reckoning without the Chincoteague cowboy’s wild pony round-up, a really rousing sight. But the local folklore’s roots go further back - to Yorktown battlefield, kept as it was the day the States won their independence, and Williamsburgh, where they still work the old crafts: spinning, dying with vegetable dyes, making spoons and candles and parading with musket, fife and drum as a living tribute to the heroes of yesteryear.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Scenery and travel

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

778

Story extras:

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