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1940
2) 0011.0001
Air Circus Bangor--Walter V. Mitton--home movies. Reel 11
Title, 'Aerial Circus at Bangor airport, May, 1939,' b&w: planes, hangar with Bangor painted on roof. Cars parked along field. Planes doing rolls. Title, 'Capt. Eddie Rickenb...;Compiled black-and-white and color home movies including scenes of ice skating, baseball, an aerial show, and a 1940 appearance in Bangor of World War I flying ace Captain Eddie...
2) 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.
3) 0132.0001
From Pulpwood to Newsprint
Film is shrunken, has severe perforation damage in places. // Opens with aerial views of the town and mill. A comprehensive tour of mill operations at the Seaboard Paper mill in...
2) 0132.0002
From Pulpwood to Newsprint
This Digital Betacam and made at Colorlab. // DVD duplication master made from this at Cinepost 03/2004. // Opens with aerial views of the town and mill. A comprehensive tour of...
2) 0143/0144.0001
[Robert M. Hume, Sr.--home movies] Reel 2
Pan of ocean, shipyard, shoreline, with hotels, horses in streets, CUs of ship approaching shore, woman in carriage speaking, games on deck (shuffleboard), waves and whitecaps, ...
3) 0143/0144.0004
[Robert M. Hume, Sr.--home movies]. Reel 5: American Legion County Convention
Box notes: 'Legion County Convention. May 19, 1940.' NHF cataloguer's notes: May 1940 scenes of parade. Marching band.
25) 0252.0087
[Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 87
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 87: (400 ft., dc 1938, title dc 1940) 'Salt water fishing, southern waters, marlin 1939-40.' 'Ocean City, M...
34) 0252.0089
[Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 89
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 89: (300 ft.) 'Vacationland 1939-40.' Color. Washington Normal State School. Sign: Joe Burnham's Inn. Scene...
28) 0252.0096
[Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 96
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 96: (100 ft., dc 1940) Color. Sunnymead Gardens. Orange grove.
9) 0252.0099
[Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 99
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 99: (100 ft., dc 1940) 'Blizzard.' Color. Shots of heavy snowfall.
15) 0252.0100
[Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 100
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 100: (100 ft., dc 1940) 'Fish 1, Ca[?]ton, Dennys.' Color. Fly fishing.
12) 0252.0101
[Howard Kane--home movies] Medical Reel 101
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 101: (300 ft., dc 1940) 'Dr. Kane 1940.' Color. 'Operative deliveries.' Shots of deliveries and operations.
13) 0252.0102
[Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 102
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 102: (350 ft., dc 1940?) Color. 'Cathance, deer, Acadia, R. Bluffs [?].' 'Home folks 1929' [inconsistent wi...
17) 0252.0104
[Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 104
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 104: (100 ft., dc 1940) 'Fish 2.' 'Dennys.' Fly fishing. Frying eggs on flagstones of patio in frying pan.
15) 0252.0105
[Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 105
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 105: (100 ft., dc 1928? 'develop before Apr 1942') 'Fish 3.' B&w. men pitching horseshoes. Parade of nurses...
6) 0284.0054
[Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 54
Can notes: 'Cotuit, Summer 1939.' // Picnic on beach with good CUs. Good exposures. Color: back yard, showing off fashions. B&w scenes at Florida fishing resort, fishermen, Meye...
27) 0290.0012
[Frank Nash--home movies] Reel 12
Amateur: Pan of mountain. Hawk's Nest overlook sign. Aerial shot of train. Pan of mountains. Bridge shot from boat. Other boats. Snowy residential street and trees. Cars. Box #1...
18) 0669.0001
King Spruce
Logging film including axe sharpening, chopping trees, horse pulling logs, Lombard log hauler, rolling logs with Peaveys, men going to lunch, cutting ice, bulldozer, boat, boom,...
19) 0675
[Maher--home movies]. Reel 8
Children on jungle gym and playing in yard. Swimming in ocean. Man in knickers with dog and family in yard. Swimming and family shots. Color material (1940 date code) shows wedd...
20) 0678
State of Maine, The
NOTE: This footage is on 'March of Time' compilation tape described in separate ProCite record. NHF cataloguer's notes for 'This Land of Ours': A map of the U.S., with a closeup...
21) 0691.0003
Maine and New York World's Fair--Sally Walsh--home movies. Reel 3
Home movie reel including scenes of family camping and visits to the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair.;New York World's Fair footage: Racetrack at the B.F. Goodrich Company Building. Railroad Building. Crowds in line to enter the General Motors Building. Greyhound tour bus dri...
22) 0691.0004
[Mahlon Walsh--home movies] Reel 4
White house. Snowy houses, valley. People with dog. People in downtown Freeport. Girls playing. Snow plow. Dogs in snow. Men shoveling around car. Cookout. More downtown Freepor...
23) 0706.0034
[Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 34
Label on film: '1940.' // 1939 edge code on film.
24) 0706.0035
[Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 35
Label on film: '1940 Day on the Kennebec.' // 1939 edge code on film.
25) 0706.0036
[Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 36
Label on film: '1940.' // 1939 edge code on film.
10) 0706.0037
[Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 37
Label on film: 'Colby Coming Home from St. John River Trip.'
11) 0721.0001
[Naturalist Films] Tape 1
Untitled educational/cultural films and nature films. // Date range from information in collection folder. // Original footage is 16mm film. // NHF retains video copy with the f...
9) 0721.0002
[Naturalist Films] Tape 2
Untitled educational/cultural films and nature films. // Date range from information in collection folder. // Original footage is 16mm film. // NHF retains video copy with the f...
29) 0721.0003
[Naturalist Films] Tape 3
Untitled educational/cultural films and nature films. // Date range from information in collection folder. // Original footage is 16mm film. // NHF retains video copy. // NHF vi...
16) 0746.0001
[Waldron, W.G.--home movies]
Family films 1930s-1950s. People pose outside houses, various seasons and years. Family activities include cross-country skiing, sledding, sleigh rides, bicycles, swinging and a...
31) 0749.0001
Maine scenes and New York trip, circa 1940--Vernard I. Pierce--home movies
Home movies shot by Vernard Price of 1940 travels to New York City, the Caratunk, Maine, Centennial Parade, and his logging operations in the woods near Bingham, Maine.;New York City, 1940. Reel opens with scenes of cars, taxis, and buses seen from above a busy street. Globe. Good footage of many neon and animated signs around Times Square, ...
32) 0751.0003-.0004
[Wilbur Senter--home movies] Reels 3-4
Amateur footage. Can notes in quotes as follows; reel numbers are NHF-assigned. Reel 3-4: 'San Francisco World's Fair'
33) 0751.0007-.0010
[Wilbur Senter--home movies] Reels 7-10
Amateur footage. Can notes in quotes as follows; reel numbers are NHF-assigned. Reels 7-10: 'California Auto Tour 1940.'
34) 0751.0013
[Wilbur Senter--home movies] Reel 13
Amateur footage. Can notes (quoted); reel numbers are NHF-assigned. Reel 13: 'Family and friends.' Donor notes: Christmas 1937 at Brunswick Richard and Caroline playing on the f...
9) 0751.0016
[Wilbur Senter--home movies] Reel 16
Amateur footage. Can notes (quoted); reel numbers are NHF-assigned. Reel 16: 'Short trips, misc.' Donor notes: A trip to Canada in 1938 Sun Light Ins. Building, Montreal Que...
36) 0751.0017
[Wilbur Senter--home movies] Reel 17
Amateur footage. Can notes (quoted) as follows; reel numbers are NHF-assigned. Reel 17: 'Misc. shots.' Donor notes: Miscellaneous shots. Fall foliage. Christmas at the store....
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