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Accidents
Fire fighters
1950s
36) 0309 cat. 0007-05-WABI
Simulated Plane Crash Fire
Bangor ? : Scenes from a simulated plane crash fire as fire fighters try to get it under control. Night. Scenes of planes taxiing on runway. Ref. 300.
34) 0310 cat.1002-10-WABI-59
Dow Air Fair
Bangor: Mock helicopter rescue including pickup of pilot from crashed airplane and firetruck with water gun.
23) 0310 cat.1002-19-WABI-59
Belmont Hotel Fire
Fire including fire fighters, hotel, crowd.
34) 0311 cat. 1002-14-WABI-59
Damaged Plane Dow Air Force Base
Nighttime shots of damaged airplane from various angles.
25) 0312 cat. 1003-03-WABI-59
Hermon Accident
Hermon: Accident scene including car with front end smashed in.
12) 0312 cat. 1003-12-WABI-59
Bangor Fire Drill
Bangor: Elementary school fire drill including pan of school, pulling of alarm by fire chief and principal, children evacuating and standing in line.
27) 0313 cat. 0009-05-WABI-59
Interview at Dow Air Force Base
Bangor : Interview with two Air Force men about their surviving a midair collision and being in the Maine woods before help could arrive. Questions about their careers, the acci...
15) 0313 cat. 0009-06-WABI
Pepper Farm Fire
Pepper Farm fire. Shots of crowds, buildings on fire, fire fighters watching.
8) 0313 cat. 0009-09-WABI-58
Ellsworth Fire
Ellsworth: A school has burned to ashes. Scenes include children and neighbors helping to save furniture, fire fighters battling blaze, heavy smoke, schoolyard on fire.
17) 0314 cat.1004-02-WABI-59
Interview with Crash Survivor
Lieutenant Johnson has apparently just survived an airplane crash. He is interviewed at a table.
14) 0314 cat.1004-08-WABI-59
Jim Adams Fire
Fire including fire fighters entering building basement, interviews by reporters.
21) 0314 cat.1004-09-WABI-59
Jackson Boat Co. Fire
Veazie : Jackson Boat Co. fire including smoke pouring from building, fire fighters on ladders in the snowfall, fire truck.
28) 0315 cat.0010-01-WABI-58
Fire, Snow & Nealley Co. (?)
Bangor: A large fire with many buildings burning. Scenes of different buildings burning, fire fighters crouching on ground, crowds.
30) 0315 cat.0010-05-WABI
Car Accident
Car accident. Shots include several angles of damaged car, and road and traffic from point of view of driver.
12) 0316 cat.0011-05-WABI-58
Fire Prevention
Central Fire Station: A man takes a phone call, stands up and pushes an alarm. A group of fire fighters slide down a pole and climb onto a fire truck. Ambulances and fire trucks...
13) 0316 cat.0011-08-WABI-59
Belmont Hotel Fire
Fire department responding to the Hotel Belmont fire. Shots of crowd, hotel and fire fighters.
23) 0318 cat.0013-05-WABI-58
Train Derailment North Maine
Northern Maine: Train derailment. Shots of engine off track, engineers surveying damage, damage, train pulled back onto track.
35) 0431 cat. 0039-03-WABI-59
Tanker
Damaged refueling plane footage shot at night.
43) 0431 cat. 0039-05-WABI-59
Fire Prevention
Bangor: Fire prevention drill at Bangor Elementary School including principal and fire chief setting off the alarm, and children evacuating building and boarding bus.
31) 0622 cat. 0039-01-WABI-58
Ellsworth Fire
Ellsworth: Fire footage includes smiling fire chief and an Ellsworth Building Supplies Co. truck.
20) 0752.0020
Warner Pathe News: Volume 3, Number 9
Warner Pathe classroom newsreel series. This Volume/Number contains: 'Prisoner of War Exchange'; 'The Death of Queen Mary'; 'Plane Crash Rescue'; 'The Korean War'; 'Atomic Energ...
14) 0752.0055
Warner Pathe News: Volume 7, Number 6
Warner Pathe classroom newsreel series. This Volume/Number contains: 'The Inauguration!'; 'Ike Visits Dust Bowl'; 'Great Cal. Brush Fire'; 'Inside the Gaza Strip'; 'Open Longest...
4) 0752.0056
Warner Pathe News: Volume 7, Number 7
Warner Pathe classroom newsreel series. This Volume/Number contains: 'The Middle East Question'; 'Two Strange Mid-East Lands'; 'Floods Hit Southern States'; 'Prospecting By Heli...
5) 0752.PC62
Warner Pathe News: Volume 8, Number 4
Warner Pathe classroom newsreel series. This Volume/Number contains: 'Opening the Era of Outer Space'; 'Jamestown: A Colony Reborn'; 'A Sculptor of Trees'; 'A Sculptor of Animal...
1) 0813.0279
Overturned Car on Route 88 in Yarmouth
News story dated 10-25-58. Original label says STOCK: ACCIDENTS.
3) 0813.0295
Wilkins, Austin: Fire Prevention
News story dated 03-13-59. Original label says STOCK: C.B.S. Forest fire prevention?
36) 1327.0014
[Whipple--home movies] Reel 14
Reel 14: Ice harvesting. Ice being moved onto conveyor belt. Men lined up with pick axes. CU machinery. Pan conveyor belt system. Hand pulled ice cutting machine. CU. Blades and...
21) 1454.0017
[Unobskey--home movies] Reel 17
Amateur footage. Donor's notes in quotes. Reel numbers are NHF assigned. 17. (150 ft., b&w) 'Fire in Calais. March 5, 1958.' ;NHF cataloguer's notes for Reel 17: Pan of businesses. 'St. Croix Electric Co.' 'The Harvey Studio' sign above previous 'Unobskey Lock 192?.' 'State Theatre.' Smoke billows abov...
19) 1490.0003
[NHF Compilation - Promo Reel 3]
3/4 in. reference tape. 1988 NHF compilation tape of news stories from BHS/WABI Collection. Tape contains: 1. Ike speaks at Dow, sof, cat.no.0005-01, dated 1957 2. JFK at Univer...
35) 1549.0020
[DuMais Family--home movies] Reel 20
Detailed content list in collection folder. // Film has 1957 edge code. // Donor notes: Wading pool in backyard. February 1954, Mom and deer at Dry Mills, Gray game preserve and...
20) 2298.0020
[Manley Nelson--home movies] Reel 20
Date from edge code on film. // Box label: 'Accidents. Town Meeting.' Note in can: 'Car Accidents. Manley Wrecker. Fire Truck at Town Meeting. 1950?' Men clear trees around w...
12) 2447.0017
Richard Hale Collection Reel 17
Footage of deer, including a man petting one. Footage of loggers cutting down trees with chain saws and axes and surveying trees in the forest. Footage of river drivers in boa...
3) 2447.0020
From Trees to Paper
Footage of forests and loggers cutting down a tree. Footage of tree seedlings, seeds and pine cones. Footage of men planting tree seedlings on a hill and with a tree planting ...
20) 2447.0021
Scenes from Summer Camp
Extensive footage of students at the University of Maine’s Forestry Camp learning and practicing their trade. Footage includes classes taught by professors, park rangers and in...
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