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1) 0039.0001 Dawn of America
Celebration of Maine's sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary, shows history of Maine from its discovery and role in nation's development. French settlement at St. Croix Island, P...
4) 0066.PC1 Monson Ice Roller
No description available
2) 0134.0001 Harvest Bumper Crop Ice
On the Kenduskeag River, marking ice into cakes, handsaws at work, piking thru channel in river, putting ice into converyor, ls cu same, showing thickness of ice, reverse shot i...
4) 0135/0136.0001 Cutting Ice
Cutting with gas-powered saw (Model T engine) and using hand tools. Using tool to push ice block. Various views of conveyor carrying blocks up from pond into ice house. Scraper ...
5) 0143/0144.0011 [Robert M. Hume, Sr.--home movies] Reel 11: N.T. Dam Picnic
Box notes: '1933 NT Dam Picnic. Emery Yong, Fahey McLean, Smiths, OConnor.' NHF cataloguer's notes: Dam, group on shore, dinnertime portraits, boys chopping trees.
17) 0143/0144.0017 [Robert M. Hume, Sr.--home movies]. Reel 17
Box notes: 'Johnsons. Katahdin. Ripogenus [Dam].' NHF cataloguer's notes: Boat, [a fin of some sort] surfacing, yachting, mountain river, dam, falls, flowers.
9) 0162.0001 [Herbert Kenney--home movies]
Young, then elderly woman try to saw on tree as young man helps. Family picnic and roughhousing. Young girl running through woods. Children in bathing suits. Couple hugging. Coa...
3) 0290.0019 [Frank Nash--home movies] Reel 19
Amateur: Trailers in campground. Ocean and boats. Coast from boat. 'Bahia Hondo Bridge' sign. Beach. 'Fly Havana' sign. Cemetery. Airplane. Car. Fruit trees. 'Jungle Cruise' boa...
9) 0389 cat. 0066-03-WABI-63 McIntire
Congressman McIntire speaks to public on Dickey Dam proposal and Quoddy Dam proposal. Talks about activities in Senate and waiting for response from Sec. Hugo.
19) 0427 cat. 1040-02-WABI-64 Dolley Interview of Nassar
Interview of Nassar by Jim Dolley regarding Egypt, its landscape, new Aswan dam, the Pyramids, agricultural outlook, culture and fashion.
12) 0428 cat. 0090-03-WABI-64 Dolley-Nassar Interview
Interview of Nassar of Egypt by Mike Dolley including discussion of Egypt and its landscape, the new Aswan Dam, the Pyramids, agriculture, fashion, and culture. Program: 'Live M...
12) 0453 cat. 1062-05-WABI-67 Hathaway on Dickey-Lincoln
Congressman William D. Hathaway and reporter from WABI talking about Republican domination of the Senate and a bill under debate identified as the 'Dickey Project'.
32) 0688.0001 Granite State Sampler, The
One side of disc is still images, the other side is moving images. Includes NHF archival footage of ice harvesting ('Cutting Ice,' 1943). ONSITE REFERENCE ONLY. Jacket notes as ...
8) 0696.0014 [E.H. Maxcy--home movies]
NHF viewing notes as follows. Reel notes in quotes. 5511-05 'Wyman Dam, Family. Moosehead #3.' Date code 1931. 100 ft. Picnic, canoes, pan of dam, shots of spillway. House, peop...
28) 0706.0026 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 26
Label on film: 'Dam Wash. Cty. Machias.' // Date from edge code on film.
1) 0715.0083 [Dickey-Lincoln Dam]
Label on can: 'Dickey Answer Print.' //;Appears to be a finished print of promotional film in support of the Dickey-Lincoln Dam project missing the soundtrack. // Aerial footage of forests and St. John River. Abandone...
1) 0719 Places of Interest in the Bucksport Area
Dated Spring 1989. Student film of Bucksport sites of historical and other interest. Old postcards showing Bucksport Main Street, bridge, boy pumping water, old buildings, railr...
31) 0723 cat. 5457-01-WCSH-90 Maine's Ice Cutters
Dated January 1990. Story about contemporary ice cutter including CU of deer, squirrel. Steve Philbr(ick?) cutting ice with power saw and hand saw. His camp. He speaks on joy of...
12) 0724.0001 [Ralph S. Taylor, Sr.--home movies] Ice Cutting
Titled film on ice harvesting process in East Andover, NH. Shows the boarding house where men slept and ate when they were brought from the city to cut ice, and work horse parad...
13) 0759.0001 [Margaret Cummings Bean--home movies] Reel 1
Fall foliage, sunset, Frank at Greenleaf Place, Tom and Murial's wedding, deer, Portland Bay, Fryeburg, building dam.;Driving on a dirt road in the mountains, filmed from a moving vehicle. Dark shot of the moon. Trees in autumn. A dam. Machinery. A tree in front of a house. Wooden buildings und...
9) 0759.0008 [Margaret Cummings Bean--home movies] Reel 8
Ice cutting at Cape, [dogs and puppies on ice, children sledding on ice].;People cutting ice. A dog on the ice. (Film changes to black and white) People cutting ice and loading it on the trucks. A mechanical saw cutting ice. A man scoring the ice. Loa...;'Big reel, ice harvest.'
4) 0779.0001 Hooked on a River
Dated 19 November 1990. Segment for Chronicle television program on Penobscot River. Aerial views of Penobscot, interviews about fishing for salmon. 1912 still photos of preside...
18) 0780.0028 [Sawyer--home movies] Reel 028
NHF cataloguer's notes as follows (box/reel notes in quotes, reel numbers are NHF-assigned). Reel 28: 'Folks, Alan [Robinson] and Ruby [Robinson], Ariz. ; 1959'. (Filmed by Omar...;Shots of desert, a huge river dam, mountains, deer in woods, people riding mules on mountain trails.
23) 0792.0001 New England
Video copy of film about New England. There are several themes in this film that focus on nature, lifestyle, work, architecture and geographical locations in New England. There ...
12) 0818.0001 [Albert Conley--home movies] Reel 1
Notes from film tag: 'Automobile trips in Maine.' // 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934 edge codes on film. // Film has twist throughout. // Intertitle: 'Automobile Trips in Mai...
32) 0818.0030 [Albert Conley--home movies] Reel 30
Date range from edge codes on film. // Notes from film tag: 'Navajo Bridge; North Rim [Grand Canyon]; Zion National [Park]; Bryce Canyon; Boulder Dam.' // COLOR: Grand Canyon (u...
27) 0818.0043 [Albert Conley--home movies] Reel 43
Date range from edge codes on film. // Notes from film tag: 'Auto, old picture; Freeport to Georgia; Clermont; Tarr Family; Annapolis; Washington.' // ìThe Trip to Florida.î Car...
14) 0822.0014 [Gladys Steputis--home movies] Reel 14
June 1969 May 1968 – home for Easter vacation Davis Dr- G. + Bill? + Linda getting in car Penob. River? – dam Lou Parlin S.C.S. men. fishing – don’t know where 7 men canoeing u...;A framed painting. A snowy yard. People exiting the house. A man and a woman getting into a car. A river dam. (Penobscot River?) Men in canoes on a river. [End of Reel];[From Susan Wells] Reel 14 (1968): -Linda’s husband, Bill Beutel, Linda and Gladys in Linda’s Pontiac Lemans -Penobscot River dam -Fishing trip; Walter in plaid; do not know fi...
3) 0822.0036 [Gladys Steputis--home movies] Reel 36
1969 Big picnic on Davis Dr. Shots of surf from back of boat? G + woman walking down a lane in the woods Man feeding bird out of his hand.;People eating at an outdoor table. A flooded dam. A dirt road in the wood. People walking up the road, to a car with a canoe on the roof. A red cabin with the sign: ‘RAVENCROAK’...;[From Susan Wells] Reel 36 (1969): -Backyard bar-b-que in Veazie -Grubb and Erinakis families, Gladys in green dress -Veazie dam on Penobscot River? -Car on camp road; Gladys an...
14) 0953.0004 [unidentified--home movies] Reel 4
NHF transfer notes below (donor's reel notes in quotes): Reel 4: 'Fishing 1933-1934. 'Birches log cabins.' Wildlife. Dam/Fishway, East Grand Lake?' Title: 'Birches Log Cabins.' ...
11) 414 Ice Harvest, Bangor
Amateur footage. Ice harvest operation at Bangor Ice Company.
12) 1101 Townsend Ice Cutting 1992 and Fitch[burg] Ice Cutting 1992
Program for 'Uncommon View,' a weekly series on Channel 36, Fitchburg, Mass. cable channel. Shows ice cutting demonstration by Phil Whitney in Fitchburg and Townsend, Mass.
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...
14) 1108.0035 [Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 035
Can notes for Reel 35: Winter 1933-34. Starts Xmas 1933. Grandpa the archer. Archie sleeping out. Kid's snow house. Willie Anderson. Kids at 350. Cameron's Packard. Nice. 1-Chri...;NHF viewing notes for Reel 35: Silent, B&W. Grandfather Warden and Archie kneeling on carpeted floor setting up toy train set. Pan of pile of presents beside Christmas tree:...
26) 1140.3400 [Dickey Dam Briefing]
Army Corp of Engineers briefing on Dickey Dam project. Military official in uniform at podium discusses environmental impacts of the project.
36) 1140.3401 [Dickey Dam Environmental Impact]
Don Carrigan interview with unidentified man on possible environmental impact of the Dickey Dam project and the flooding that will result. Hearings are going to proceed despite ...
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