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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
3) 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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.'
2) 0789.0030 Sunday River Ski Improvements
Uel Garner, director of Sunday River Ski Resort, talks during a studio interview about the improvements made during the past year; the school is now teaching the American style ...
5) 0789.0032 Ski Weather Reports
Don MacWilliam interviews the president of the Maine Ski Council about the problems faced this year for the council; timely weather reports available he says are a big problem f...
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 ...
11) 414 Ice Harvest, Bangor
Amateur footage. Ice harvest operation at Bangor Ice Company.
8) 1023.0008 Vinalhaven, Maine, and Mt. Sunapee, New Hampshire, 1946-1948--Cameron A. Rae--home movies. Reel 8
Compiled reel of color home movies including scenes at Vinalhaven, Maine, and Mt. Sunapee, New Hampshire, and footage of a bridge construction project.
15) 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:...
4) 1140.2736 [Freestyle Skiing]
News story by Bill Green looks at a young student who has committed himself to free-style skiing. Although we can't identify the skier featured, Nick Preston is interviewed abou...
15) 1147.0011 [production P-68]
NHF transfer notes as follows. Production ('P') numbers are Museum-assigned. Can/reel notes appear in quotes. P-68 (18 fps, 9:00): 'Ice Harvesting, Blue Mountain Lake School, Ro...
16) 1201 [Frederic Stetson--home movies]
Kenduskeag Stream ice harvest: Old car driving down road. Pan of snowy ground including cut logs. Ice cutting with hand-pushed power cutter. Ice blocks going up belt.
17) 1202.0001 cat.5044-03-HINK-40 [Scenes at Hinckley School for Boys]
Farming scenes with tractor and various machinery. Boys pick and bag potatoes. Truck picks boys up. Sheep farming with lambs, ewes; sheep herding, chicken farming with CU's of c...
25) 1210.0009 [Industry on Parade #29]
Episode #29 of the weekly Industry on Parade newsreel series. Originally broadcast on April 24, 1951. // Segments on reel: Vest Pocket AutoPilot! Manufacturing automatic pilots....
1) 1232.0001 [Joe Gagnon--home movies] Reel 1
Amateur footage of ice cutting and other scenes in Presque Isle. NHF notes: 1. Ice cutting, wood cutting and family footage, 1956.
20) 1232.0002 [Joe Gagnon--home movies] Reel 2
Amateur footage of ice cutting and other scenes in Presque Isle. NHF notes: 2. Ice cutting, 1956-1957.
21) 1250 [NHF Compilation: 'Maine selections']
Ca.1990 NHF compilation of Maine-related footage, taken from various NHF collections. The tape contains: 1. Everett Johnson Collection, cat.no.5241-01-JOHN-43, Cutting Ice 1943,...
22) 1250.0003 [NHF Compilation - Maine Subjects Selections]
VHS reference tape. 1988 NHF compilation of Maine Subjects footage dated 1901-1969, 16 segments taken from four collections. This tape contains: 1. [Everett Johnson Collection],...
23) 1250.0006 [NHF Compilation - Maine Selections]
VHS reference tape. Ca.1990 NHF compilation of Maine-related footage, taken from various NHF collections. The tape contains: 1. Library of Congress Paper Print Collection, cat.n...
24) 1250.0007 [NHF Compilation - Maine Selections]
VHS reference tape. Ca.1990 NHF compilation of Maine-related footage, taken from various NHF collections. The tape contains: 1. Everett Johnson Collection, cat.no.5241-01-JOHN-4...
25) 1250.0010 [NHF Compilation - Samples From the Collection]
VHS reference tape. 1988 NHF compilation of samples from various NHF collections. The tape contains: 1. Library of Congress Paper Print Collection, Drawing a Lobster pot, 1902, ...
5) 1318.0092 Friends and skiing, 1940-1941--Samuel B. Horovitz--home movies. Reel 92
"26(4). Mixed shelf. Friends--ski. 1940 Dec to 1941 Jan."
90) 1327.0014 [Whipple--home movies] Reel 14
Reel 14: Ice harvesting. Ice being moved onto conveyor belt. Men lined up with pick axes. CU machinery. Pan conveyor belt system. Hand pulled ice cutting machine. CU. Blades and...
27) 1463.0001 Ice Harvesting Sampler (Production Materials)
1991 NHF compilation of archival ice harvesting footage from several collections that date 1920s-1940s. 'This compilation shows newsreel and amateur footage of ice harvesting on...
28) 1463.0002 Ice Harvesting Sampler DISTRIBUTION MASTER
DISTRIBUTION MASTER. // 1994 NHF compilation with narration of archival ice harvesting footage from several collections that date 1920s-1940s. 'This compilation shows newsreel a...
29) 1567.0043 [Thompson Pond Ice Cutting]
Dropout throughout. // Ice cutting on Thompson Pond in South Bristol. The process of ice cutting and harvesting is shown. Herb Thompson and Gwen Thompson speak about the history...
6) 1579.0002 [Cary Maple Sugar Company—outtakes] Reel 2
[Notes paraphrased from M.M. Thomas Film History] Boy driving team of oxen in sugarbush. Oxen pull gathering sled along two track road with another little boy riding on back of...
30) 1629.0001 [Hancock Shaker Village Ice Harvesting]
News stories of Phil Whitney's ice harvesting demonstration at Hancock Shaker Villagein Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Includes footage from NHF 'Ice Harvesting Sampler.' ONSITE REF...
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