“An Introduction to PEI and Green Gables,” excerpted from the much longer video production made by the Confederation Centre of the Arts: Feelin’ Mighty Proud (2020)

A voiceover, quoting enthusiastic lines from L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Shirley, begins as the screen shows aerial views of Prince Edward Island.

[Adam Brazier] “I’d like to add some beauty to life,” said Anne. “I don’t exactly want to make people know more though I know that is the noblest ambition. But I’d love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me to have some little joy or happy thought that would have never existed if I hadn’t been born.”

The aerial views include: green grain fields, red fields bounded by green grass, red cliffs, and blue waters; a white lighthouse sitting on a point of land above the sea; a blue-water harbour with small fishing boats moored along its curving edge; finally, a view of Green Gables Heritage House, a farmhouse with white walls, green shutters and green gable peaks. The house is surrounded by green grass and a white fence; on two sides of the house, small and larger grey barns with red doors create a farmyard space.

When the announcer stops speaking, the view bursts through one of the barn doors into the farmyard. Music plays briefly and then a uniformed Parks Canada guide introduces visitors to Green Gables Heritage Place.

[Christina Wakim] Hello and welcome. My name is Christina and we are currently in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island at Green Gables Heritage Place. This site is the original inspiration for the book Anne of Green Gables and we welcome roughly 200,000 people every year. There are many great things that you’ll find in the house such as the raspberry cordial that is now on the second shelf as it should have been. Not the red currant wine. You’ll also find Anne’s puffed sleeve dress upstairs in her room as well as the pieces of her slate, the slate that she broke on Gilbert’s head when he called her “Carrots.” You’ll never know what other great things you’ll find at Green Gables Heritage Place”

While she speaks about items in the house inspired by Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, video shows the front door of the house, a pantry shelf with a glass bottle of red raspberry cordial, Anne’s brown puffed-sleeve dress hanging on the closet door of her bedroom, and several pieces, on a trunk, of Anne’s broken school slate and its empty wooden frame.

When she finishes speaking, she gestures toward the house, inviting viewers to explore Green Gables Heritage Place house and grounds. Music begins and the Credits roll across the screen.