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1) 0001.0001
The Knight of the Pines
Short drama: 'The Knight of the Pines directed by Edgar Jones, photographed by Eugene French, distributed by Arrow Film Corp.' Studio dance hall sequences (Sewall Street) featur...
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...
9) 0153.0002
[Ballroom dancing footage]
NHF cataloguer's notes: 5004-02-MAHR-?? (Dupont 11, nitrate, very dark.) Ballroom dancing.
10) 0163.0001
The Seventh Day
Dated 6 Feb 1922. Drama: young New Yorkers who come by steam yacht up the coast of Maine and unwillingly visit the people of New Harbor. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.;MOMA accession number: 20531;This version was labeled as both a work print (on the leader) and release print (on the can). According to David Weiss, this print came from MOMA and originally had Czech intert...
2) 0284.0016
[Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 16
'Mother Davis' with young girl and on swing. Pierre clowning with two ladies, nurse brings a baby out to a couple. Two children playing by the lake and roasting hot dogs, marshm...
6) 0284.0018
[Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 18
Street scenes along Amalfi drive (most taken from car). Visiting a Capucine Monastery, visiting the ruins of Hadrian's villa and some spirited dancing among ruins. A 'peasant' g...
7) 0284.0052
[Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 52
Eddie Cantor appears with luggage and performs before camera. Rudy Vallee in sunglasses tips his cap to the camera beside Kezar Lake. Several people, including Meyer Davis, shoo...;// Meyer Davis Logbook: 'Rudy Vallee's camp, summer 1939. Ginny, Garry, M.D, Revues [?]. Farringtons 1939. Mr. and Mrs. Chapman. Bill Dasheff. Picnic, Liptons 1938. Butler's Bal...
14) 0291.0002
Tahiti to Fiji, 1937--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 2
Can label: 'Tahiti to Fiji Stella Polaris 2 1937.' ;A dance performance (possibly hula or otea), three women and one man performing, accompanied by guitars. Footage of dancers, slowed down. A man standing in the water, holding an...
3) 0291.0003
Fiji to Ceylon, 1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 3
Can label: 'Fiji to Ceylon Stella Polaris 3 1938.' ;Dance performance. (Fiji?) Dancers preparing kava. Dancers serving kava to tourists. (Film changes to black and white) Dance performance. Performers in masks and headdresses. Pe...
9) 0291.0004
Ceylon to Liberia, 1938-1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 4
Dancers and drummers, continues from previous reel. (Film changes to black and white) Same dancers. A covered wagon pulled by an ox. An elephant and mahouts by a stream. Boats b...;Ceylon would become Sri Lanka in 1972.
11) 0291.0011
Angkor to Peking, 1938-1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 11
A road. Musicians carrying instruments. Dancers performing in front of Angkor Wat. (Siem Reap, Cambodia) The Cambodian Royal Palace. (with French flags) A funeral procession. Mo...;FROM Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine Jan. 22, 1939 to March 22nd Benares – To – Saigon Indo China Films to # 64 C Films 62 C – Siem Reap = Pra Khom Pre Rup – P...
34) 0293
A Lovely Light; Dance Behind the Mask
A Lovely Light is a documentary on the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Dance Behind the Mask is a dance performance about children danced by Jimena Lasansky. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
5) 0295.0001 cat. 5310-01-VLLX
[Philip Veilleux--home movies]
Family Christmas including tree, opening gifts, children. Woman dancing. Kitchen scene. [1954 date code]
28) 0295.0006-.0017 cat. 5311-01
[Philip Veilleux--home movies]
NHF Cataloguer's notes, 12/95: .0006: Pan of house, lake and mountains in distance. Graveyard. Ocean view, islands in distance. Picnic, boiling lobsters over open fire on rocky...
16) 0314 cat.1004-01-WABI-59
Hunter's Breakfast
Old Town: Rotary Club outdoor breakfast event including people standing in food line, CU food, men serving, big pots on brick fires, people standing next to fire, women dancing,...
31) 0336 cat. 0023-06-WABI-61
Bozo Parade
Scenes of Bozo the clown dancing and waving to spectators as part of a parade.
2) 0380 cat. 0062-13-WABI-63
Queen City Grange
Preliminary competition for Miss Bangor-Brewer in which man looks at card while contestants wait.
36) 0381 cat. 0063-07-WABI-67
Bangor-Brewer Pageant
Pageant including Miss Bangor-Brewer contestants walking, posing, answering questions from the host. Also shot of WABI cameras.
19) 0381 cat. 0063-11-WABI-63
Bangor-Brewer Pageant
Young women walk in single file past a table to pick up something.
6) 0404 cat. 0087-19-WABI-64
Miss Wool
Outdoor Miss Wool beauty contest.
20) 0432 cat. 1041-07-WABI-65
Belfast Broiler Festival
Belfast: Event including parade, beauty pageant, hatching chicks, Governor John Reed.
22) 0450 cat. 1057-10-WABI-67
Old Town Graduation and Bangor High School Prom
Students graduating and dancing at prom.
11) 0450 cat. 1057-19-WABI-67
Bangor High School Graduation Party at Branch Lake
Lake scenes including hot dog roast, marshmallow roast, girls in bathing suits, kids dancing.
20) 0451.0016
Broiler Queen of 1967 in Belfast
Belfast: Contest activities including young woman with birthday cake, contestants smiling.
5) 0453 cat. 1063-21-WABI-67
Three Quarter Century Club
Woman and man dancing. Large crowd of elderly sitting at folding tables. Man directing singing. WWI veterans band playing. Several older men. Shaking hands. Crowd singing and da...
20) 0455 cat. 1069-19-WABI-67
6th Annual Callers Jamboree in Bangor
Bangor: Many square dancers dancing in large auditorium. Gym. Shot of caller and band on raised platform. Dancing.
26) 0455 cat. 1070-12-WABI-67
Husson Beanie Hop
Teenagers dancing with beanies on.
28) 0558 cat. 0060-05-WABI
Summer Fun in Rhythm
Promo for Channel 5 Spectacular, sponsored by Rapaport Auto. Shots include dancing men and women intercut with onscreen words, 'Swing' 'Into' 'Summer.'' 'Summer Fun in Rhythm', ...
29) 0559 cat. 1015-12-WABI-61
British Parliament
Parliament session including presentation of a document, flags, blacks dancing, fireworks.
10) 0560 cat. 0093-02-WABI-64
Christmas Daddies Film
Live telecast including preparation for the event, sorting of gifts, Dick Bronson and Mike Dolley at the desk, camera crews, dancing and singing acts, crowd shots, various skits...
25) 0658 cat. 5272-01-CAPT-36
Captain January
Little girl adopted by lighthouse keeper lives pleasant life until truant officer threatens to take her away.
27) 0659
Grace Ross
Old Port Fitness Club: Aged dancer Grace Ross leading a dance class. Young woman journalist interviews her regarding dance and the aged, dance as a singularly human activity, he...
10) 0659
Symposium on Arts and Aging, #3
Woman concludes her presentation from Symposium on Arts and Aging, tape 2. Question and answer session follows. Grace Ross sings and dances. (See Huey film on Grace de Carlton R...
22) 0659
[Band with video effects]
Tape label says 'Little White Squares.' Name of band? Dance taking place at University of Maine, Augusta?
2) 0659.0032
Alma Yoray and Darell Bidstrup, Improvisational Dance
Dated 17 April 1981. Master Edit.
3) 0660.0001
Blue Hill Class Reel 1
Date from edge code on film. // About 20 people in chairs draw people on lawn. Cow is led about in front of them. Shot is from rear of students. Boy climbs on donkey and is led ...;A woman with a donkey stands in front of a group of students with notebooks. A boy leads the donkey in front of the group. The boy sits on the donkey while another boy leads it....
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