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Weddings
Celebrations
1950s
1) 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...
3) 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.
5) 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.
4) 0310 cat.1002-04-WABI-59
Opening of New Mart
Opening of new Mart store including speeches, ribbon cutting, shoppers inside and out.
22) 0310 cat.1002-12-WABI-59
Opening of New Mart
More footage of cat. no. 1002-04-WABI-59. Includes more shots of shoppers.
12) 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.
9) 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.
22) 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.
13) 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.
29) 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...
29) 0314 cat.1004-04-WABI-59?
Groundbreaking for King Cole
Groundbreaking ceremony for King Cole including handshaking, bucket loader digging.
9) 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.
23) 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...
24) 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...
2) 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...
33) 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.
10) 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.
26) 0431 cat. 0039-07-WABI-59
Dow Air Force Base Christmas Party
Party includes children and nuns receiving and opening gifts from Santa.
21) 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...
11) 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 ...
20) 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...
14) 0607 cat. 1013-01-WABI-52
American Wit and Humor
Narrator's stories include: 1) 'A Doctor of Laws.' A man who is both a justice of the peace and a doctor is called to marry a young couple. He gets confused and believes their l...
31) 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.
15) 0806.0001
[John Murphy--home movies] Tape 1
NHF notes, 1991: Tape 1 contents (no clear divisions between 'reels' on the tape): Reel 1A Maine 1941-1953. Reel 1B: J.H. Murphy & Assoc. spring 1957 to December 1958. Reel 1C: ...
8) 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.
28) 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;...
25) 1108.0115
[Archie Stewart--home movies] Reel 115
NHF cataloguer's notes: Reel 115: Archie Stewart can notes: 1- Uncle T & GG. 2- 4th of July. 3- Proper's boat. 4- Thruway. 5- Col. G's 79th. 6- Christmas 1953. 7- Ann &...
8) 1196
[Shaw--home movies]
Videotape copy of nine Shaw family home movies. (Segment #1 is Brady Gang segment described in separate ProCite record.) 2. Civil Rights Parade, Bangor, Main St. Dated early 196...
34) 1258.0013
[Coughlan/Kelleher--home movies] Reel 13
Donor's notes as follows. Film box/reel notes in quotes. Reel 13: 'C. Hyde's wedding 1950.' Clare Hyde's Wedding, St. Margaret's, Brockton.
34) 1258.0017A
[Coughlan/Kelleher--home movies] Reel 17A
Donor's notes as follows. Film box/reel notes in quotes. Reel 17A: 'Maureen Grady's wedding. Mem. parade, Ab. Center 1951.' Maureen Grady and Jack Scully's wedding, Taunton, MA....
15) 1258.0017B
[Coughlan/Kelleher--home movies] Reel 17B
Donor's notes as follows. Film box/reel notes in quotes. Reel 17B: 'Jean's wedding. Football AHS '51. MJ cheer.' AHS football. Mary Joan cheering...Also Claire Devlin, John play...
22) 1258.0021
[Coughlan/Kelleher--home movies] Reel 21
Donor's notes as follows. Film box/reel notes in quotes. Reel 21: 'Rourke wedding. J's confirm. May Process. 1953?' Mary and Ed Rourke's wedding at St. Bridget's Church, Abingto...
26) 1258.0025
[Coughlan/Kelleher--home movies] Reel 25
Donor's notes as follows. Film box/reel notes in quotes. Reel 25: 'Ginny and Chas. Kath's grad--AMC. Murphys. 1958.' Charles and Ginny Grady's wedding (Taunton, MA), double expo...
24) 1258.0026
[Coughlan/Kelleher--home movies] Reel 26
Donor's notes as follows. Film box/reel notes in quotes. Reel 26: 'Grace, Joanie, Ireland. Grace & Harvey wedding. Ireland, Joan, Tom, Fox St.' Grace Kelleher Clayes going to Ir...
28) 1258.0027
[Coughlan/Kelleher--home movies] Reel 27
Donor's notes as follows. Film box/reel notes in quotes. Reel 27: 'Grace-Joanie, Ireland. Clare Sheehan's wedding.' In Ireland...Coolea, [County] Cork. Humphrey Lynch of Coolea,...
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