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13) 1108.0027 [Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 27
Reel 27. // Archie Stewart can notes: '1. Cutting ice. Very interesting. Old #11 Coldan Street fire & Fellowcraft. Of some historical interest.' Screening notes: Intertitle...
2) 1142.0002,.0005,.0006 [Dolby--home movies] Reels 2,5,6
NHF viewing notes: Reel 2: [Logging on Saco River] Pile of logs, caterpillar tractor. Men push logs into stream. Horse twitches log. Man takes still photo of log ends. [In Lawre...;Lawrence Towne Dolby, 92 OBITUARY, Sun Chronicle, Friday, July 28, 2006 Lawrence Towne Dolby, a longtime resident of Saco, passed away on July 18, 2006. He was born in Sac...;Regarding Saco logging footage, "... Joseph G. [Deering] was born September 13, 1894, in Saco. After graduating from Yale in 1917, he returned in the early 1920’s to join the b...
1) 1229.0014 [Charles Gilbert--home movies] NHF Reel 014
NHF Cataloguer's notes as follows. Intertitles in quotes; film box dates/notes in parentheses. Reel numbers are NHF-assigned. Reel 14: (Firemen's Parade). (1929). (0:00) Marchin...
3) 1289.0005 [Ernest G. Stillman--home movies] Reel 5
Can note: '1947 Fire Starts. Bar Harbor Fire, MDI.' // Footage of 1947 forest fire on Mount Desert Island. Smoke on horizon. Shots of burned woodland area and heavy smoke in for...;Reel 5 Intertitle: "When the red cocks crow on Mt. Desert" Intertitle: "The 1947 Fire Starts" color, views of smoke and small flames, smoking landscape, burned over, pan. In...
3) 1454.0017 [Unobskey--home movies] Reel 17
Amateur footage. Donor's notes in quotes. Reel numbers are NHF assigned. 17. (150 ft., b&w) 'Fire in Calais. March 5, 1958.' ;NHF cataloguer's notes for Reel 17: Pan of businesses. 'St. Croix Electric Co.' 'The Harvey Studio' sign above previous 'Unobskey Lock 192?.' 'State Theatre.' Smoke billows abov...
36) 1612.0022 [Chute Homestead—home movies] Reel 22
Footage of men in a forest in the hills, including men exiting a small cabin, collecting water from a stream and drinking directly from a stream. A few shots of a group of peop...
10) 2114.0032 [Everett Greaton--home movies] Reel 32, Accession 2114
A shot of a house. A few shots of a deer in a stream. A few shots of people in boats and on a dock fishing, including a deer in a field of flowers and people laying out their ...
21) 2122.0001 [Raymond Cotton—home movies] Reel 1
Intertitle: "Raymond O. Cotton presents TIME MARCHES ON. August 1937. Hiram Buys a Fire Engine. HIRAM FIRE DEPARTMENT IN ACTION." The fire department in Hiram was started in 193...
4) 2178.0008 [Albion Emery--home movies] Reel 8, Accession 2178
A few shots of the remnants of a building after a fire. A few shots of children riding a toy tractor pulling a wagon through Emery’s Cottages. A shot of people cooking in a ki...
14) 2261.0007 [Joshua W. Curtis, Jr.—home movies] Reel 7
Man shovels snow in front yard. Cabin burning. Searsport fire truck. Firemen hose fire. Tractor picks up dirt. Woman picks flowers. Wharf. Men in front of campus building. A sto...
17) 2310.0002 [Milton Dowe—home movies] Reel 2
Intertitle: "Fire, 1938. Baker Farm" 14:02- 15:48 Shots of farmhouse fully engulfed in flames, flames shooting out windows, then smoldering ruins of burned out building wit...
12) 2386.0004 [Nashua, NH Films] Reel 4
A shot of some wreckage. Footage of fireman spraying water on a burning building in winter interspersed with shots of an icicle covered fire engine with its ladder extended. I...
6) 2426.0006 [Charles B. Hinds—home movies] Reel 6
Snowstorm with fire in large building. Firefighters, smoke, power lines. No more snow, continuing roof fire, factory fire, adjacent building. Brown Co.'s Wharf sign. Views of w...
6) 2447.0017 Richard Hale Collection Reel 17
Footage of deer, including a man petting one. Footage of loggers cutting down trees with chain saws and axes and surveying trees in the forest. Footage of river drivers in boa...
4) 2523.0004 [Philip W. Hussey--home movies] Reel 4, Accession 2523
Intertitle: “Events About Town ’37 (Reel No. 1)” followed by shot of men with their cars, men playfully fight. Shot of three children posing for the camera (two boys, one girl)...
33) 2523.0006 [Philip W. Hussey--home movies] Reel 6, Accession 2523
Man works on trailer hitch. Men gather around outside of a storefront with ads in windows, smoke cigars, work together to move a sailboat out of a storefront door, put the boat...
8) 2523.0008 [Philip W. Hussey--home movies] Reel 8, Accession 2523
Intertitle: “Winter Sports ’37-‘38” Donor notes: “Winter Sports - ‘37+’38.” Title card curtain falls. Intertitle: “Dartmouth ’37 Winter Carnival.” Donor notes: “Dartmouth C...
1) 2534.0025 [Harvard Forest Films] Reel 25
Intertitle: “When the Red Cock Struts Through the Forest” A few shots of a forest fire. Intertitle: “The number of Forest Fires can be reduced if---” A few shots of fire figh...
19) 2534.0026 [Harvard Forest Films] Reel 26
Footage of a forest fire starting from sunlight magnified by a glass bottle and fire fighters putting out the resulting blaze with intertitles. Footage of forest fires and fire...
3) 2534.0027 [Harvard Forest Films] Reel 27
Footage of firemen using various techniques, trucks and pieces of equipment to fight a forest fire with intertitles explaining all of them. Intertitle: “Some have answered the ...
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