Maine TV: Then, Again

Date2002

Can DescriptionsMaster tapes used for the Maine TV: Then, Again show at the Portland Museum of Art on ??/??/2002. Compilation of footage from the Maine television collections. The Portland show was longer than the Maine TV: Then, Again show at the Alamo Theatre (see acc. 2100.0002). Tape 1 begins with Culture & Identity as introduction before television footage. Footage on tape 1 (38 min.): Miscellaneous station IDs; New Year's baby; Ike with salmon; accident footage; wine advertisement; Dead River (host smoking); accident; interviews about fire; interviews; Geroge Mitchell interview; Curly O'Brien Show; Cushman's advertisement; Saab/Hammond Motors advertisement; Potato Blossom parade; Potato Queen singing; New Central Furniture advertisement; man speaks on future of television; Bangor flood; Russ Van Arsdale on WLBZ 30th anniversary show; Pat Callaghan in front of John Bapst with hair sticking up in wind; Bill Green with boxer; Eddie Driscoll with exploding cake; reporter at empty Presque Isle golf course; high school basketball championship game at Bangor Auditorium; interview; Sonny Liston training in Lewiston. Footage on tape 2 (40 min.): Tips & Tricks - makeup brushes; 'Would you vote for a woman for president?' street interviews; woman at film bench splicing film and discussing women's rights movement; Clif Reynolds in Kennebunkport at Sea Spray Hotel; Maine Mall construction; Piscataqua River bridge construction; city streets in snow; furniture in Portland street - advertisement; 'What would you do to improve Portland?' interview; parking ticket interviews in Portland; moon landing reactions; baked beans advertisement; Marshall Dodge; Vindale mobile homes advertisement; Veteran's Day Parade with Cohen and Mitchell; Jimmy Carter; Brennan for Governor; Angus King for Governor; Olympia Snowe commercial; UPIU (union) advertisement; International Paper post-strike advertisement; anti-nuclear waste dump advertisement; street interviews on Soviet Union relations; Samantha Smith; troops return to Bangor International Airport from Persian Gulf/Iraq; Portland Museum of Art advertisement - 'Thank you, Kindly.'