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1950s
18) 0017.0001
Wedding and Hula Hoop Girls--Walter V. Mitton--home movies. Reel 17
Color logo of the Amateur Cinema League followed by titles, 'Thayer and Macdonald,' 'April 26, 1952,' 'I pronounce you man and wife.' Faded color. Bride and groom walk out of ch...
28) 0301 cat. 1000-05-WABI-59
Sentry Dog at Dow Air Force Base
Dog displays his training.
6) 0305
Dedication of Army Reserve Center
Dedication of the Army Reserve Training Center, Corps of Engineers, New England Division. Unknown speakers plus shots of head table. Groundbreaking ceremonies.
2) 0307 cat. 1001-01-WABI-56
Blue Nose Ferry
Blue Nose Day including ferry race, an ox-pull, speakers, shots onboard as ferry sails into harbor.
22) 0307 cat. 1001-02-WABI-55
President Dwight Eisenhower at Dow Air Force Base
Eisenhower refueling including landing strip and airplane, Ike talking with two officers.
35) 0310 cat.1002-04-WABI-59
Opening of New Mart
Opening of new Mart store including speeches, ribbon cutting, shoppers inside and out.
14) 0310 cat.1002-12-WABI-59
Opening of New Mart
More footage of cat. no. 1002-04-WABI-59. Includes more shots of shoppers.
15) 0310 cat.1002-13-WABI-59
Chevron Banquet
Lucerne : Banquet at Lucerne Inn including men standing in front of sign that says, 'What's Come Over Our Calso Sign?' and crowd.
20) 0310 cat.1002-16-WABI-59
Dow Air Force Base on Alert
Alert including people getting up from eating in mess hall to drive and board their airplanes.
27) 0311 cat. 1002-15-WABI-59
Christmas Party at Dow Air Force Base
Santa's distribution of gifts including him posing with children and nuns. People eating around a table. The men rush out to get on and Air Force plane.
25) 0312 cat. 1003-05-WABI-59
Caribou Centennial
Celebration of 100 years of development from Boston to Caribou. Caribou Centennial Covered Wagon is in front of Paul Bunyan statue, and is pulled by horses.
19) 0312 cat. 1003-06-WABI-59
Hi-Value Groundbreaking
Groundbreaking of used car dealership including hand shaking, and shovelfuls of earth. Appears to be sponsored by International Harvester.
1) 0312 cat. 1003-14-WABI-59
Smokey Bear at Dow Air Force Base
Bangor: Smokey's visit including talking to children, children listening to model of Smokey, children walking in line to receive literature and fire hats.
13) 0313 cat.0009-07-WABI-59
Ted Williams Jimmy Fund
Ted Williams arrives to sign autographs for local Pee-wee baseball teams and to help with his Jimmy fund event. Shots include band playing, performers, Williams speaking, crowds...
34) 0314 cat.1004-04-WABI-59?
Groundbreaking for King Cole
Groundbreaking ceremony for King Cole including handshaking, bucket loader digging.
21) 0314 cat.1004-05-WABI-59
Paul Bunyan
Bangor: Christmas celebration around Paul Bunyan statue including crane placing of a lei around the statue's neck, Santa Claus, men raising themselves in the crane, CU of statue.
25) 0314 cat.1004-10-WABI-59
WAGM Radio
Governor Horace A. Hildreth, president of the Hildreth Network, pushes button bringing WAGM Radio to Aroostook County as part of a banquet. Shots of transmitting tower, ceremoni...
7) 0315 cat.0010-04-WABI-59
WAGM 5000 Watts
Former governor Horace A. Hildreth, now president of the Hildreth Network, pushes button as part of presentation banquet to officially begin new broadcasting activity of WAGM 95...
30) 0316 cat.0011-02-WABI-59
Dow Alert Force
Crowd of people eating in large hall. Five men jump to an alert and drive to their plane, which they board. Also a shot of a sign reading 'Alert Force Crew No. 5.'
23) 0317 cat. 0012-05-WABI-59
Dow Contest
Inspection of Dow Air Force Base crew as they refuel tankers. Shots of inspection and results.
21) 0319 cat. 0013-12-WABI-59
[Joan Crawford at Dow Air Force Base]
Joan Crawford at opening ceremonies for Rudman Beverage Co., a new Pepsi-Cola factory in Maine. Her arrival at Dow Air Force Base on a Pepsi plane, her welcome by the crowd. She...
9) 0319 cat.0013-14-WABI-59
Sentry Dog Show
Dow Air Force Base: Sentry dog performs training tasks including obstacle course and attacking a dummy. Also shown barking in kennel.
28) 0319 cat.0014-02-WABI-59
Governor Day at Otis Air Force Base
Governor Day boards a plane and flies to Otis Air Force Base. Shots of him in flight, and with Air Force officials at base.
42) 0321 cat. 0014-04-WABI
Frontier Week
Frontier Week Celebration. Parade, fair, officials at lunch, Calais gun and rod club. Also a baseball game in which Ted Williams participates.
2) 0336 cat. 0023-08-WABI
Opening of Portland General Electric
Portland: General Electric ribbon cutting shots include building exterior, man cutting ribbon and shaking hands, 'Portland Branch Office' sign.
32) 0419 cat. 0091-02-WABI-55?
President Dwight Eisenhower Refuels at Dow Air Force Base
Refueling of Eisenhower's jet including his deplaning and talking with the base commander, his plane landing and taking off, LS and MLS of him talking with officers and young wo...
5) 0431 cat. 0039-07-WABI-59
Dow Air Force Base Christmas Party
Party includes children and nuns receiving and opening gifts from Santa.
14) 0554 cat. 0042-01-WABI-59
Swan's Island Ferry
Swan's Island: William S. Silsby Ferry picking up and ferrying vehicles. Shots of rooms and deck, land, dedication for service to Swan's Island, speeches, ferry leaving port, is...
5) 0570 cat. 0041-01-WABI-59
'Gov. Muskie' Motor Ferry
Dedication ceremonies honoring ferry's maiden voyage from Islesboro to Lincolnville. Interviews with Maine Port Authority's General Manager Edward Langlord, Authority President ...
55) 0573 cat. 0040-01-WABI-56
[Blue Nose Ferry Service]
Inauguration of ferry service between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Bar Harbor including interviews and speeches by Gov. Muskie, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, Premier Hicks of Nova Sco...
12) 0581 cat. 0037-01-WABI-56
Metropolitan Grand Opening
WABI interviews with employees of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. as they arrive for a luncheon at the Penobscot Valley Country Club. Luncheon to celebrate opening of new compan...
1) 0609 cat. 0035-01-WABI-56
Blue Nose Ferry Launching
Canada: Launching of ferry on maiden voyage to Bar Harbor including LSs of ship and crowds waiting for christening, speeches, CU of deck, car driving onto ferry.
36) 0825.0001
Assignment in Aroostook
Produced by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in cooperation with the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC), this short tells the story of Sergeant Don Butler, who...
12) 0954.0494
[Presque Isle Centennial]
Label on can: 'Presque Isle Centennial Week 8/59';Performance with flags and baton twirling as various people walk down the stairs on stage. The woman at the end may be Sandra Ackley, the "Miss Centurama" winner.
21) 95-40.0033-.0035
Mediterranean cruise--Dassler family--home movies. Reels 33-35
NHF cataloguer's notes for Reels 33-35: Cargo-liner 'Jesse Lykes'; cargo is loaded by longshoremen, using forklifts, for departure from Houston; Houston's industrial shore zone;...
3) 307 cat. 1001-11-WABI-58
New Lights -- Dow Air Force Base
Installation of new landing lights at base including airstrip, lights during day and night shot from plane, and various airplanes.
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