1760s: Intertitle. Silhouette of men on ship deck.
Boston, Massachusetts 1760s: Silent film intertitles describe a mass meeting at the South Meeting House that forces Governor Hutchinson to remove British troops, with two soldiers later convicted of manslaughter. A subsequent intertitle explains that four years later, taxes had been removed from all commodities except tea, and colonists refused to allow the tea ships' cargoes to be landed. The final frame shows a silhouetted scene of men working aboard a ship's rigging and deck, evoking the tea ships central to the unfolding conflict.
Subjects:
1700s
18th century
1920s production
american revolution
apparel
archival footage
black and white
boston massacre
boston tea party
british troops
cargo ship
colonial america
colonists
colony
costume
crew
dramatization
governor hutchinson
harbor
historical narrative
historical reenactment
history
intertitle
manslaughter conviction
maritime
mass meeting
mast
political unrest
protest
revolutionary era
rigging
ropes
sailors
shadow figures
ship deck
silent film
silhouette
south meeting house
taxation
tea ships
tea tax