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58) 0252.0065B
[Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 65B
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 65B: (50 ft., dc 1935) 'Roth #2.' Small town, flooded.
71) 0696.0002
[Bucksport Mill footage] NHF Reel 2
NHF notes: Footage of the construction of the Maine Seaboard Paper Company mill in Bucksport, Maine. Appears to be professionally shot. Includes shots of construction site on w...
34) 0696.0011
[E.H. Maxcy--home movies]
NHF viewing notes as follows. Reel notes in quotes. 5511-02 '9/1931' 100 ft. More swimming. Ocean, pool with harbor in background including four-masted vessel. Bucksport Mill vi...
15) 0696.0020
[E.H. Maxcy--home movies]
NHF viewing notes as follows. Reel notes in quotes. 5511-11 'Lake and March Flood 1936' Date code 1934. 100 ft. Sailing on lake, children play cowboys on shore. Flood, ice in ri...
1) 0712.0001
[Forrest Colby--home movies] Summer logging
Can/box note: 'Pulpwood drive.' NHF cataloguer's notes: 00:50 Camp in summer, long pan of log buildings. Horse crosses, pulling travois-type sled with box on it. Man walks behin...
19) 0726.0006
[unidentified--home movies] Reel 6
NHF cataloguer's notes (reel numbers are NHF-assigned): Reel 6: Country scenes. Small-town American Legion Parade. Mountains. Lakes. Beach scenes. Same family (as in earlier ree...
3) 0726.0008
[unidentified--home movies] Reel 8
NHF cataloguer's notes (reel numbers are NHF-assigned): Reel 8: Circus. Zoo. Mountain scenes. A small-town parade. Four-masted schooner 'Seth Parker' open to the public. Isl...
8) 0759.0015
[Margaret Cummings Bean--home movies] Reel 15
Hurricane 1938 damage, Dean's, #2, looking toward house and toward barn, wellhouse, watertower. 'Big reel, 1938, hurricane at the Cape.';Fallen trees and houses damaged by the hurricane. People cutting trees. A broken cement path. A man chopping a tree that has fallen on a house. More shots of storm damage. [End ...
9) 0759.0027
[Margaret Cummings Bean--home movies] Reel 27
1938 hurricane, best.;Fallen trees and houses damaged by a hurricane. People clearing fallen trees, using horses. Men cutting down trees. A girl on a swing. Shots of several houses. People clearing t...
26) 1032
[George Erswell, Sr.--home movies]
KS notes 7/94: Reels 1-9. Poor visual quality. Dirty. Florida? Boy on rollerskates, dog, father. Girl and boy in chair swing. Trailer house. Women emerge. Couple kiss. Man with ...
13) 1203.0001-.0007
[Kodish--home movies] Reels 1-7
Reel 1: (300 ft., b&w, dc 1937) Millyard in Ashland, Maine. Family gathering, group all walks by. Baseball, swimming. Train, skiing race, mid-30s cars, hockey, leaping and froli...
2) 1289.0002
[Ernest G. Stillman--home movies] Reel 002
Can notes as follows; reel numbers are donor-assigned. Reel 2: Southwest Harbor. Harbor scene and vast lumber cutting and 1930 sawmill operation.;color. Intertitle: "A Maine hayfield" (transfer shows frameline at bottom) Panning of flowers in long grass, tilt up to lobster traps. Intertitle: "Otter Creek" View of ha...
6) 1382.0006
[John A. Stone--home movies] Reel 006
Donor's notes as follows: Reel 6: Monmouth, Maine, at Elizabeth's. August Stone and John Stone, July 1938. Grampa Larry carving decoys, in color. Dot Burgess and Buddy (dog)...
11) 1612.0011
[Chute Homestead—home movies] Reel 11
Compiled home movie reel including 1939 color scenes of the New York World's Fair.;A few shots of people around a Lockheed Electra plane with “La Touraine Coffee Co.” on the side of it. Footage shot from within the airplane, probably New York City. A few sho...;Notes on can: “World’s Fair 1939; Hurricane; Maine Scenes; Logging; Skiing; Air Scenes - Naples; Logging w/ oxen”
34) 1612.0020
[Chute Homestead—home movies] Reel 20
Footage of a raging brook shooting from small dams and waterfalls and reaching up to bridges with flood damage evident in the background. A shot of a hose attached to a pump. ...;Notes on can: “Flood Bridgton 38! Causway [sic]” “Old Bridge”
8) 1895.0001
[Spool Mill]
Pan of wooded landscape and lake. Birds at a distance on the lake. 01:50 Pans of mill with water tower. Manufacturing company is surrounded by stacked lumber under cover. Vie...
4) 2122.0001
[Raymond Cotton—home movies] Reel 1
Intertitle: "Raymond O. Cotton presents TIME MARCHES ON. August 1937. Hiram Buys a Fire Engine. HIRAM FIRE DEPARTMENT IN ACTION." The fire department in Hiram was started in 193...
31) 2159.0001
Hurricane Damage in Massachusetts, 1938--Harris M. Elliott--home movies. Reel 1
"Hurricane Damage/Purgatory Mountain, Mass/Whitinsville+Uxbridge/Taken Nov 6 1938.";1938 home movie survey of hurricane damage and clean up in Massachusetts following the September 21 storm. ;Pans over fallen and uprooted trees along a dirt road, with some signs of clean up in progress. A man stands at the base of a large uprooted tree, providing perspective on its ...
4) 2196.0004
[Vermont Forest Service Films] Reel 4
Pan across three mountainous piles of logs to lumber mill on pond, with mountains in background. Sign "American Fork & Hoe True Temper Products" The mill is in Groveton, NH, n...
27) 2310.0008
[Milton Dowe—home movies] Reel 8
Intertitle: "Home Movies Presents 'The Flood' Spring of 1940" 49:12- 50:37 Views of rushing water on village streets, running down embankment by small bridge and into stream b...
4) 2386.0004
[Nashua, NH Films] Reel 4
A shot of some wreckage. Footage of fireman spraying water on a burning building in winter interspersed with shots of an icicle covered fire engine with its ladder extended. I...
32) 2447.0006
Richard Hale Collection Reel 6
Footage of a large bird coop and a fawn in a pen. A group of men pose and joke for the camera. A shot of a saw mill, the adjacent river full of logs and the nearby town. Foot...
6) 2523.0006
[Philip W. Hussey--home movies] Reel 6, Accession 2523
Man works on trailer hitch. Men gather around outside of a storefront with ads in windows, smoke cigars, work together to move a sailboat out of a storefront door, put the boat...
2) 2534.0002
[Harvard Forest Films] Reel 2
Footage of broken and downed trees as a result of a hurricane intercut with shots of workmen using a crane and dump trucks to move large rocks, build a retaining wall and clear ...
3) 2534.0003
[Harvard Forest Films] Reel 3
Footage of workers unloading logs from trucks with pick poles and measuring them. A shot of men loading logs onto a truck. A shot of a horse twitching, or dragging, logs. A s...
4) 2534.0004
[Harvard Forest Films] Reel 4
A shot of wind blowing through a snowy forest. A shot of workers cutting branches and logs with a circular saw. A shot of a woman walking along a wooden shed. A shot of worke...
6) 2534.0006
[Harvard Forest Films] Reel 6
Intertitle: “The Forest of tomorrow” Footage of workers in the forest, including digging and loading a truck. Intertitle: “Three generations of Harvard Forest workers” A shot...
7) 2534.0007
[Harvard Forest Films] Reel 7
Footage of a stream running over some rocks. A few shots of boards stacked high in a lumber yard. Footage of trees and brush in Harvard Forest intercut with workers marking an...
3) 2534.0010
[Harvard Forest Films] Reel 10
Intertitle: “White pine in need of thinning Wind causes crown friction” A shot of a man in the woods followed by a few shots of tree tops blowing in the wind. Intertitle: “Mar...
6) 2586.0006
[Earle G. Shettleworth, Sr.--home movies] Portland Shipyard and Flooding, Reel 6
Can: "1) Danish Village complete 2) Portland Headlight 3) Flooding" Good footage around Portland harbor and docks including lighthouse. Short winter scenes at home, then long...
31) 2586.0018
[Earle G. Shettleworth, Sr.--home movies]. Washington D.C. and Long Island Disaster, Reel 18
Good shots of D.C. in b&w, then switching to color of Arlington, Mt. Vernon, Washington Monument, etc. Storm aftermath in a coastal city (looks like Maine, but sign says Long Is...
22) 2586.0021
[Earle G. Shettleworth, Sr.--home movies]. Hartford Flood and Damage, Reel 21
Various scenes of toppled trees, smashed cars, collapsed buildings, good views of flooded Connecticut river, nice shot of man laughing about his demolished car. Film shifts to b...
15) 2636.0001
Roughing the Uppers
From the Lewiston Sun Journal: "The documentary tells the story of a strike that involved thousands of shoe workers and more than a dozen factories in Lewiston and Auburn [Maine...
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