Provincetown: The First Summer - 16mm film,1953

Provincetown: 1953, The First Summer. This extraordinary home movie is essentially a time capsule of Provincetown, Massachusetts, as it was in the summer of 1953, consisting of old stills and silent black and white film. In 1953, Yvonne Andersen and Betty King, art students at LSU, went to Provincetown for the summer to study with painter Hans Hofmann. Living there at the same time, aspiring writer Dominic Falcone. The trio met in Provincetown, and for a time were all working at the Lobster Pot Restaurant to pay their expenses. The film depicts a small Cape Cod town full of artists, summer life, in a wonderfully non-commercial era.
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[@LL-bl8hd]

Wonderful footage and storytelling. I wish I could have experienced it back then! It's still a wonderful place with lots of natural beauty and human quirkiness, but much less of a "working" town and more catered to tourists and wealthy summer home owners than to working-class people and fledgling artists.

[@jamesmonahan1870]

Very interesting video.

[@Larkinchance]

Like the East Village in Manhattan, the culture is all different today. There isn't a house under a million in town. When the young artists with no money are squeezed out, the place isn't nearly as interesting. I guess it's not the place, but the time I miss.

[@dbona4445]

Very nice but the video is newer. I saw a 1961 Pontiac Tempest on Bradford Street.

[@ChristopherSeufert17]

Thanks for the feedback, I think you might be incorrect, however the provenance of the film is credited in detail here archive.org/details/ProvincetownTheFirstSummer1953 and the date is put in context several times. Perhaps double check...

[@Larkinchance]

@@ChristopherSeufert17 I saw a few late 50's cars but so what if there is some mixed footage. Provincetown had the same sequences of events every year.

[@williamneumyer7147]

Freedom. Bring it back.