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19) 19613 United Fund Victory Dinner At Dow
No description available
2) 18717 Salute to Dow
No description available
35) 18679 Orville Freeman Tours Dow
Orville Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture
4) 2790.0001 [Roger Inman Film]
[The film is water damaged and some images are obscured.] A series of “magic tricks” accomplished with film editing: A trick with a bottle. A woman appears, standing on a table....
5) 2716.1270 New England Sunday - Repack, Part I, July 7, 1985
NES X3134 Repack July , 1985 Part I Rec. 6/21/85 Air. 7/7/85;Title: ‘New England Sunday’. Frank Avruch and Jan Holmes host. Avruch talks with former Boston police commissioner Joseph M. Jordan. They discuss his retirement, police officer ...
3) 2507.0006 [S.D. Kelsey--home movies] Reel 6
Can notes: "1950-51 Kids Windstorm Oak Park Steve's camp Clovis";REEL SIX 1950-1951 Reel Six is all taken at Clovis Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Stevie is 7 ½ and I am 5 years old. The opening scene Daddy shot at the base air...
15) 2507.0003 [S.D. Kelsey--home movies] Reel 3
Can notes: " WP to Maxwell Football Game, Ft. Put, Ft. Monmouth, T-6, WP in snow." "Fall 1948-1949 West Point 1948 Football game, Mechanics Dept. party at Round Pond. Hunti...; REEL THREE 1948 The 1948 football season game between arch rivals Army and Navy is seen followed by an after game party where the men and women, all officers and their spouse...
34) 2507.0001 [S.D. Kelsey--home movies] Reel 1
Can notes: " 1) Engagement pictures May, 1942 2) Stevie's first holy pictures July, 1943 3) Christening day - Marge" 4) Stevie with Jack for first time in front of 150" Add...;REEL ONE 1942-1944 The scene opens with pre-marriage expectations. The date is May 27, 1942. The location, Post Chapel, Lemoore Army Flying School, California. The time, ...
29) 2447.0010 The Tree In A Test Tube
Directed by Charles McDonald, narrated by Pete Smith and Lee Vickers and starring Laurel and Hardy. Pete Smith explains to Laurel and Hardy how many products in their daily liv...
10) 2187.0016 [Smyth Family--home movies] Reel 16
Footage taken from boat of waves, shoreline. Possibly Alcatraz. Air force plane/jet. Farm at sunset. Graduation/commencement exercise. Storm at sandy beach.
11) 2159.0028 Battle For Tunisia!; Surrender at Stalingrad!
Castle Films release of World War II news footage. Includes segments "Battle for Tunisia!" and "Surrender at Stalingrad!"
12) 1916.001 Danube Exodus
Compilation film using amateur footage shot by Captain Nandor Andrasovits who transported East German Jews along the Danube River in 1939-1940. Program from Getty Research Insti...
71) 1837.001 [Houlton Air Force Base Parades]
Amateur footage of Houlton Air Force Base parades during World War II
14) 1752.005 Japan's Surrender
No description available
15) 1610 World War II: New Hampshire
World War II as experienced in New Hampshire. See video review filed in Collection File.
25) 1370.0025 [Karl Stefan--home movies] Reel 25
Amateur footage of family and travel. Leader notes as follows: 25. Key West apt. dedication, boat scenes, July '57. NHF Cataloguer's Notes: Baby in stroller. People in summer cl...
17) 1308.0013 [William Rand, Sr.--home movies] Reel 013
Can notes as follows (reel numbers are NHF-assigned): 13. End of World War II--black & white.
18) 1191 cat. 1096-28-WABI-68 Inactivation Ceremonies at Dow
No description available
17) 1191 cat. 1083-03-WABI-67 Bangor Air Force Cadet Before Lions Club
No description available
16) 1191 cat. 1075-18-WABI-67 Military Retirement Ceremony At Dow
No description available
86) 1191.1100.21 [Last Planes Leave Dow]
Last bomber plane and stratotanker leave Dow Air Force Base in Bangor; Air Force men board plane, it takes off; 'City of Bangor' painted on side of bomber; inspection of men in ...
25) 1140.5786 [Loring Restart Hearing]
Loring Air Force Base closure hearing; Senator Edmund Muskie, Governor Joseph (Joe) Brennan, William Cohen, Olympia Snowe. Other people speak. Dale Duff reports.
21) 1140.2983 [New Plans For Dow Base]
Interview with Bangor Development Director Ed McKeon about plans for the former Dow Air Force Base; President Harold Chute (sp?) of chemical company opening plant.
20) 1020.0001 Timber for Tojo
Collection-level description: a factual film about the wood products industry in Maine during World War II. Documentary footage of woodswork related to production of ammunition ...
12) 0830.0006 The Story of the Portland to Montreal Pipeline
[NHF Reel 6] NHF cataloguer's notes, 9/23/98 CH: (10:25) Intertitle: 'The Story of the Portland to Montreal Pipeline.' 1941. Gorham to Montreal section constructed by Williams B...
11) 0558 cat. 0060-12-WABI-63 NORAD Anthem
Promo for the North American Air Defense Command which tells how the military defenses of the U.S. and Canada protect North America from aerospace attack. Shots of flags, jets, ...
11) 0456 cat. 1071-22-WABI-67 Bangor City Council Meets Federal Representative on Dow Re-use
Men sitting at table with papers and talking. Man sitting down. Several shots of men sitting down at table. Shot of assembled crowd. Men at table with map of Bangor behind them.
9) 0456 cat. 1071-15-WABI-67 Penobscot Bay Power Squadron at DOW
Two men talking near plaque on wall which reads 'James Frederick Dow 1913-1966 2nd Lieutenant U.S. Army Air Corp.' Men talking in front of plaque and picture.
65) 0451 cat. 1059-05-WABI-67 Dow Fireworks Display
Bangor: LS of Dow Air Force Base buildings. People sitting in grassy area. Fireworks.
7) 0439 cat. 0095-07-WABI-66 Fireworks at Dow Air Force Base
Bangor: Fireworks lighting up the sky.
6) 0388 cat. 0064-19-WABI-63 Berry at Dow Air Force Base
A women named Berry is given a tour of the base. Shots include LS and MS of her standing by a helicopter MS of her at controls, CU of her looking through a window.
2) 0388 cat. 0064-15-WABI-63 Dow Air Force Base
Officers stand at attention as troops march by.
2) 0384 cat. 0072-13-WABI-63 Alert at Dow Air Force Base
Alert drills at base including performing an arrest, setting off smoke bombs to test base fire department, ambulance and medics test.
38) 0364 cat. 0050-16-WABI-62 Dow Air Force Base Helicopter Fire fighting Demonstration
Fire fighting demonstration including crew running to two-propeller helicopter, the helicopter lifting off and picking up a water tank, flying to a small fire, crew using tank w...
7) 0354 cat. 1021-01-WABI-62 Liquid Fire Fighting
Bangor: Fire fighters practice in extinguishing chemical or liquid fires at Dow Air Force Base.
33) 0353 cat. 1020-07-WABI-62 Helicopter at Dow Air Force Base
Bangor: Base fire fighting crew flies in two-propeller helicopter to pick up a water tank and fly to a fire, where they use hoses to put it out, and the helicopter picks up a man.
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