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3) 0150.0001 Lucerne, Maine
1. Actuality: Tozier's winter sports party 1928, 1929' with Dupont Pathe 12 stock. Decorated frame shots, Lucerne Hotel, train, fishing. (Dupont Pathe 29 stock). Six or so men p...
5) 0152.0001 NRA Parade, Bangor
Dated October 1933. 'The pictures of the Bangor Brewer NRA Parade are brought to you through the efforts of Bangor Publix Theatres.' LS front of library? Bands, military, Indepe...;People on the Indian Island Women's Club float identified as sisters Lucy Poolaw, Florence Shay and Emma Nicolar.
8) 0158.0005 State of Maine Dedicates Carlton Bridge, 1928--Edward Farrington Abbott--home movies. Reel 5
Amateur. First 17 ft. perf. damage and brittle. 1928 footage, with Title 'Opening the Bake,' man selects corn and clams from large pit clambake. About 12 people look at men arou...
9) 0285.0003 Pemaquid
Date from edge code on film. // Shot as unedited documentary footage, gives a detailed visual and oral account of the archeological site in Pemaquid, Maine where two 1000 year o...
3) 0293 Longley News Conference
Dated August 11, 1978. Governor James Longley talks about private landowners and Native American lawsuits. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
10) 0293 cat. 5193-01-PSMQ-75 In and Out of Maine: The First Mainers
Members of the Passamaquoddy nation talk about the ways of their ancestors and how life is changing for Native American people in Maine. Contrasts the past nomadic lifestyle wit...
7) 0394.0001 A Question of Survival: Washington County, Maine
Documentary examines poor economic conditions in Maine's Washington County. Interviews with residents about life, work, job opportunities, and the prospects for the future. Vari...
20) 0710 A Question of Survival: Washington County, Maine
Documentary examines poor economic conditions in Maine's Washington County. Interviews with residents about life, work, job opportunities, and the prospects for the future. Vari...
9) 0736 Spirits of the Polar Night
Onsite reference only. // Documentary on Aurora Borealis including scientists, Alaskans, Eskimo art, the borealis.
17) 0752.0028 Warner Pathe News: Volume 4, Number 7
Warner Pathe classroom newsreel series. This Volume/Number contains: ''Big Four' Meet in Red Zone of Berlin'; 'Indo-China: An Old War Goes On and On'; 'Return to Freedom: Releas...
11) 0761.0001 Our Lives in Our Hands
Documentary on the Micmac basketry collective that markets handcrafted baskets for its members. NHF has obtained limited distribution rights to this film from DER, Inc.
25) 0800 The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People
Rough cut of documentary that speculates about vanished Native American tribe. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
2) 0800.0050-.0062 AIDS series
AIDS series of videotapes: conference speakers and panels. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
14) 0813.3374 [Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project]
Original script in Collections File. // Construction of worker housing at Quoddy Hill, dam building (with rail) at Pleasant Point and Treat Island.
30) 0885.0011 [Alfred Pfister--home movies] Reel 011
Donor's notes and NHF cataloguer's notes: Reel 11: Indians on the farm. Ceremony, Native American dance, man imitating dance, takes man's headdress, goofing around. Women, babie...
31) 0921.0041 [Maine Festival, 1978] Tape 4
Unedited. // Original label on videotape box: 'Tape 5: Maine Festival, 1978. Passamaquoddy Indians.' // Periodic dropout throughout tape. // Scenes from the 1978 Maine Festival ...
4) 0947.0003 [Winter Movie workprint] Journey Into Yesterday
Promotional films made for Maine Department of Economic Development. [Winter Movie workprint] is incomplete; includes script. Journey Into Yesterday concerns Southwest U.S. with...
1) 0952.0285 [Field Trip: Munsungun: Early Man in Maine]
Program #15. Record date: May 6, 1983. // Explanation of a three year study started in 1979 at the Munsungun Lake region by Dr. Robson Bonnichsen of the University of Maine Anth...;Credits: A special thanks to the Institute for Quaternary Studies of the University of Maine and the Member Organizations of Northern Maine Woods, Inc. without whose help this “...
35) 0952.0352 In and Out of Maine: The First Mainers
Members of the Passamaquoddy nation talk about the ways of their ancestors and how life is changing for Native American people in Maine. Contrasts the past nomadic lifestyle wit...;Credits: With the support of the Maine Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Federal Agency created by Act of Congress in 1965 ; Producer: Eton F. ...
6) 95-40.0009-.0010 The east shore of Lake Superior--Dassler family--home movies. Reels 9-10
NHF cataloguer's notes, 2/96 for Reels 9 and 10: Family aboard cabin cruiser, including spaniel dog; panoramic footage of wooded hills along shoreline; boy rowing boat on calm w...
7) 95-40.0027-.0028 Alaska, Northwest Farmers Tour--Dassler--home movies. Reels 27-28
NHF cataloguer's notes, 2/96: Reels 27 and 28: Travel posters depicting the Alaskan coast, a Yakima Indian woman; mountainous coast taken from aboard large cruise vessel; dock a...
17) 96-034.0019 Alaska, 1937--Oscar R. Houston--home movies. Reel 19
Compiled black-and-white and color home movies of 1937 travels throughout Alaska, including many aerial views.
23) 1022.0001 Mary R. Calvert, A Maine Historian; & Austin Wilkins: A Life in Service
Interview with historian Mary R. Calvert regarding her life and work. Traces her family's history in Maine from Revolutionary War period to present. She describes the contents o...
25) 1140.0368 [Social Services for Indians]
Interview with man conducting workshops about social services for American Indians. // Also see 1140.0378.
26) 1140.0378 [Social Services for Indians]
Interview with man about feedback received on workshops about social services for American Indians. Also see 1140.0368.
26) 1140.3273 [Wabanaki Ceremonial Request]
Meeting with Attorney General Joseph (Joe) Brennan; Wabanaki Indians ask to have cameras turned off as they request use of Baxter State Park for ceremonial purposes. Interview w...
27) 1140.3333 [Federal Mediator for Indian Land Claims]
Don Carrigan interviews man with southern accent about Indian Land Claims case. Man sent to Maine by President Carter as representative, will make recommendations to President a...
1) 1153.0001-.0021 AIDS series
AIDS series of videotapes: conference speakers and panels. FOR REFERENCE ONLY. Tapes generally correspond to VHS copies at acc. 0800, though provenance needs to be clarified. TC...
29) 1191 cat. 1099-07-WABI-68 Indian Affairs Commissioner Hinckley in Orono
No description available
30) 1191 cat. 1108-14-WABI-68 Curtis Endorses Indian Bond Issue
No description available
31) 1198 In the King's Service
North woods drama. Marion Warner plays Philomel, Leo Pierson plays her brother Jacques. They live in a log cabin and Jacques farms unsuccessully. 'Rupert of the Royal Mounted Po...
8) 1212.0001 Abnaki: The Native People of Maine
Educational/cultural work that explores the cultural identity and survival of the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Micmac Indian tribes, and their legal battles over land ...
845) 1311.0018 [Helen V. Bird--home movies] Reel 18
Spring & summer of 1958. Lorna & Janice Easter AM 1958. Sept 23 going Tony [?] shoveling Silver Dollar program.;A girl (Janice) poses by a car. Janice and a friend (Lorna). Close up of a dog in a cage. Shots of other people. A small house in the woods. An outhouse/shed. Two people walking...
35) 1330.0008 [unidentified--home movies] Reel 8
Label: 'Indians.' // Date from edge code. // Parade, man with native American headdress at front. Horses in parade. One man carries a stick that reads: 'Navajo.'
34) 1368.0020 [Alfred Pfister--home movies] Reel 20
Amateur footage of travel by Dr. Alfred Pfister. Donor's reel notes: Reel 20: Farm scenes. Fly-fishing at a camp, Alfred and others. Paula and pep walking, Paula, Pep and Alfred...
31) 1458.0228 [Passamaquoddy Dancing]
Passamaquoddy children doing traditional dances in a gymnasium, while a man beats a hand-held drum. Old b&w photos of tribal members fishing, in military uniforms, family portra...
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