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1) 0001.0001 The Knight of the Pines
Short drama: 'The Knight of the Pines directed by Edgar Jones, photographed by Eugene French, distributed by Arrow Film Corp.' Studio dance hall sequences (Sewall Street) featur...
2) 0009.0001 Grandpa Tripp's Logging Film
Frank E. Tripp's logging camp in North New Portland, Maine showing off what what believed to be the longest load of pulp length logs ever hauled on skids by a tractor.;On leader: FRANK TRIPP - LOGS - MARCH 1938
16) 0015.0001 Swanville Farm Apple Trees--Walter V. Mitton--home movies. Reel 15
Title, 'Hardy-stock apple trees are selected and varieties top-grafted,' man working with small tree, wrapping a graft. Title, 'Prior to the trees reaching bearing age commerci...;Color home movies documenting work activity at a commercial orchard in Swanville, Maine, circa 1940.
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...
2) 0069.0001 [ARCO bicentennial outtakes]
NHF cataloguer's notes: NOTES ARE SLIGHTLY OUT OF ORDER- TAKEN FROM FOOTAGE BEFORE IT WAS TRANSFERRED- SOME SHOTS WERE ON REEL BACKWARDS OR REVERSED Street fair. MS families sit...
1) 0133.0001 Logging in Maine
Dated June 1 and 3, 1906. 'The subject is the movement of cut timber from the forest to the mill. The few scenes that make up the film are of loggers performing the various oper...
3) 0137.0002 Pilgrim Forests (reel 1 of 2)
Pilgrim Forests, produced by the National Park Service, United States Department of Interior, in cooperation with the Emergency Cooperation Work, about Civilian Conservation Cor...
213) 0140.0001-.0012 [various videotapes]
35 tapes from Acc. 0140-0142 moved from Blue Hill to NHF, 7/2002. Individual tapes identified when possible, otherwise labeled '0140-0142'. Various segments on: [Iowa farm famil...
3) 0142 [Interview with Joseph Millett]
35 tapes from Acc. 0140-0142 moved from Blue Hill to NHF, 7/2002. Individual tapes identified when possible, otherwise labeled '0140-0142'. Filmed conversation with Joseph Mille...
4) 0145.0001 [Robert M. Hume, Sr.--home movies]. Reel 1: Cutting Pulpwood
Can note: 'Cutting Pulpwood 1933. Woodsaw. Bermuda 1932. All Film Black & White.' NHF cataloguer's notes: Man with ax cuts down tree, man with frame saw; man uses ax to limb woo...
9) 0158.0006 Wrights Manor and Poland Spring, 1928--Edward Farrington Abbott--home movies. Reel 6
Amateur. Title, 'Summertime in Maine.' 'Wright's Manor, Norway' [Maines]. Man in plus-fours on road. Cars parked near stone house. Dog on lawn. Rapid pan of landscape. Women in ...
6) 0227.0006 River Run
Forest management, the Machias River watershed and the log drive. // Logs travel down Machias River to Whitneyville where a large saw-mill owned by Lester Crane was operating.
7) 0252.0016 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reels 16
Reel 16: (390 ft.) 'Machias Lumber Co. 1929.' 'Mill scenes.' Long log drive. Men standing on logs in water with pick poles. Barefooted boys run on logs. Mill in background. Men ...
8) 0252.0017 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reels 17
Reel 17: (160 ft.) 'Maine woods in winter 1929.' '[Snow] 1929.' Logs riding up chain conveyor into mill. Milling out logs into boards and beams. Sawing. Shingle making binding u...
9) 0252.0018 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reels 18
Reel 18: (300 ft.) 'Machias 1929-1930.' 'Machias Fair, Ford (Jim) and sulkey race (Conrad Meserve, Harley Henry).' Season change. Man with dog walks by piles of logs. Waterfront...
12) 0252.0118 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 118
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 118: (100 ft., dc 1936 and 1929) 'Melissa [?].' Color. Young naked child outside adobe home. Workers and bu...
1) 0260.0001 Northeastern States, 2nd Edition
Educational film produced by Encyclopedia Brittanica covering New England and N.Y., Penn., N.J., Del., and Maryland. Visually unidentified footage: dairy production, apple orcha...
27) 0262.0001 [Frank Nash--home movies] Reel 1: Miami and Everglades
Film box notes: 'Feb and March 1955. Joel Campbells home also.' NHF cataloguer's notes, 1/96: Sea. Ships. Car approaching along road. Palm trees. Oranges. Pan of field, palm tre...
14) 0262.0002 [Frank Nash--home movies] Reel 2: Silver Springs
Film box notes: '1936. Picnics and Mt. Jefferson.' NHF cataloguer's notes. 1/96: Loading wheelbarrow, woman carrying bucket. Couple walking toward camera. Sitting, gesturing. Fl...
21) 0280.0001 Trail to Better Dairying
A-wind print. 1941, 1946 edge codes on film. Believed to be composed of camera original film. Consists of both Ansco and Kodachrome stock. Ansco color is significantly faded. //...
12) 0280.0002 Trail to Better Dairying
B-wind print. Date from edge code on film. Believed to be dupe of original (acc. 0280.0001). Consists of both Ansco and Kodachrome stock. // Educational work about the first yea...
18) 0280.0003 [Trail to Better Dairying Outtake]
Short outtake element found in can with 0280.0001. Ansco film stock. Color faded.
24) 0280.0004-.0008 [Trail to Better Dairying Soundtrack] Discs
Five sound discs containing the soundtrack to 'Trail to Better Dairying.' Stored in the audio area of the vault.
29) 0280.0010 Trail to Better Dairying (Color Internegative)
Color internegative created from best color portions of original 16mm prints (acc. 0280.0001 and 0280.0002) at Colorlab, 09/2007.
25) 0280.0011 Trail to Better Dairying (Release Print)
Release print created from color negative (acc. 0280.0010) at Colorlab, 09/2007. // Educational work about the first year of the Hancock County Dairy Club.
2) 0293 Tall Tales and Tall Timber
Stills show the history of Maine lumbering and loggers.
2) 0293 Singing Down the Road
Maine musician Tony Saletan interviews Mainers about lumbering days. Also sings lumbering song. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
3) 0306 cat. 0004-02-WABI-57 Governor Edmund S. Muskie Inauguration
Augusta: Edmund Muskie's inaugural speech as governor of Maine includes Maine's natural resources, the farm economies, fish and game, forests and clean water, fair labor laws, a...;Augusta: Edmund Muskie's inaugural speech, delivered before a full legislative house, as governor of Maine; he includes a list of the initiatives he intends to present to the le...
4) 0313 cat. 0009-06-WABI Pepper Farm Fire
Pepper Farm fire. Shots of crowds, buildings on fire, fire fighters watching.
2) 0322 cat.0016-05-WABI-60 Frost Farm Fire
Frost Farm on fire. Farm burning, fire fighters with hose, car on fire.
31) 0322 cat.0016-06-WABI-60 Farm and Home Week at UM
Students and faculty at Farm and Home Week presentation. Students walking in front of Student Union, students and faculty listening to speaker.
21) 0322 cat.1007-09-WABI-60 Farm and Home Week at Univ. of Maine
Live broadcast including UM sign, a WABI interview, people seated and listening, baby animal playing.
30) 0334 cat. 0024-10-WABI-61 Hugh Davis Barn Fire
Fire burning at Hugh Davis barn.
34) 0339 cat. 0026-07-WABI-61 Machias Flood
Machias: Flooded ditches and roads, picnic area underwater, logjam, houses and stores, Narraguagas and Machias rivers.
25) 0341 cat. 0027-02-WABI-61 Industrial Show in Augusta
Silent footage of the Maine Products Show August 23, 24, 25, including stall displays by the Maine Civil Defense, Raytheon, Portland Cement, Maine Department of Agriculture, Pep...
26) 0343 cat. 0029-07-WABI-61 Rice Paddies
People working in rice paddies.
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