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10) 0009.0001 Grandpa Tripp's Logging Film
Frank E. Tripp's logging camp in North New Portland, Maine showing off what what believed to be the longest load of pulp length logs ever hauled on skids by a tractor.;On leader: FRANK TRIPP - LOGS - MARCH 1938
2) 0252.0082 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 82
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 82: (100 ft., dc 1938) Color. Flower garden.
3) 0252.0083 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 83
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 83: (100 ft., dc 1938) Color. Navy warships. At sea.
3) 0252.0084 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 84
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 84: (100 ft., dc 1938) Color. Navy ship leaving New York harbor. Officers with pigeon.
9) 0252.0086 [Howard Kane--home movies] Reel 86
NHF notes as follows. Can/reel/box annotations appear in quotes. Reel 86: (50 ft., dc 1938) 'View from Howards Mountain, Fort O'Brien.'
6) 0284.0050 [Meyer Davis--home movies] Reel 50
Color: Meyer & Hilda on deck, nice Kodachrome. B&w: Margie, Hilda and Meyer on deck with friends, on boat to Nassau. Swimming Bahamian holds on to boat. Pan of Nassau, street an...
18) 0290.0010 [Frank Nash--home movies] Reel 10
Amateur: Pan of coast. Animals in distance. Family picnic. Girl on swing, riding tricycle. Family ice skating. Large group of laughing girls pose in yard. LS of boat in bay. Pan...
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...
11) 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.
14) 0291.0005 Blue Hill to Jaipur, 1938-1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 5
Ferris wheel and fair scenes in front of Blue Hill harness race. On board a cruise ship, waves, the White Cliffs of Dover. A farm. Sheep. Scenes of the English countryside, a ra...;From Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine 1938 – 1939 Nov. 3 – Jan. 22 N.Y. – to – Benares Films to # 33 0 = C = 1 = C. ? (landing/wandering?) Chester (Chester to...
11) 0291.0006 Jaipur to Delhi, 1938-1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 6
Boys weaving. Jantar Mantar, (an equinoctial sundial) Jaipur. A cow turning a mill. A man and a boy in a storefront. (Film changes to color) Tourists getting on an elephant. Cam...;From Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine 1938 – 1939 Nov. 3 – Jan. 22 N.Y. – to – Benares Films to # 33 14 C - Batik workers : Camels (Amedabad) Jaipur – Sun Gat...
6) 0291.0007 Delhi to Elwins, 1938--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 7
A group of children sitting on the ground. Women and children on the street. People sitting on a rooftop. Girls carrying platters on their heads. People on the street. Shots ins...;From Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine 1938 – 1939 Nov. 3 – Jan. 22 N.Y. – to – Benares Films to # 33 23 – C. - Delhi potters painting : Agra Fort : - Taj 25 –...
14) 0291.0008 Elwins to Calcutta, 1938--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 8
Rock formation. Village scenes. Children and adults. Men and boys performing an acrobatic dance. A group of children. Children on a swing. Shots of the village. A western man wa...;FROM Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine Jan. 22, 1939 to March 22nd Benares – To – Saigon Indo China Films to # 64 C Films 37, 38, 39 B+W Elwins Finished...;Mahatma Gandhi at Sevagram ashram near Wardha, India, where he lived from April 1936 to near the end of his life.
5) 0291.0010 Bangkok to Angkor--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 10
Standing Buddha shrine. Monks washing beside a canal (klong). Panning shot of temple (wat) roof and klong. (Wat Benchamabophit, Bangkok, Thailand) Wat entrance with yaksha statu...;FROM Miss Adelaide Pearson Rowantrees Bluehill, Maine Jan. 22, 1939 to March 22nd Benares – To – Saigon Indo China Films to # 64 C Films 53 - C – Bangkok – Palace + Temple encl...
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...
28) 0291.0012 Peking to Blue Hill, 1938-1939--Adelaide Pearson--home movies. Reel 12
Imperial palace and Temple of Heaven in Peking (Beijing). A procession of boys carrying tasseled poles. A procession of men in white carrying crosses. Pall bearers carrying a co...
3) 0291.0015 Asiatic Potters, India 1938-1939
Titled amateur film: 'Asiatic Potters India 1938-39.' 'Our first Hindu Potter...' etc. Amritsar. 'Miss Paddock, judging the workmanship of the ware.' Good CUs. // Original foota...;Title card: 'Our First Hindu Potter Note how he turns his wheel. The only potter we saw who tooled the bottom of his piece.' A potter using a potter’s wheel to make a pot out of...
25) 0291.0016 [Asiatic Potters, 1938-1939]
Appears to be part of 0291.0015. // Film on Puri leper potters and their methods. Japan. Calcutta. Pegu, Burma; Kuala Lumpur, Bienhoa, French Indochina; Annam. // Original foota...;Title card: 'The leper potter of Puri. Large pots are thrown without bottoms then batted over a stone till thin, well-shaped and dec-orated.' A man pats a bottom-less pot into s...
13) 0660.0003 [Nice, North Africa] Reel 1
Title, 'Nice from the sea.' Water, hillside. Title, 'Nice, Promenade des Anglais.' People at tables. Title, 'Herald of the Carnival, Nice.' More such titles. Stable shots, no CU...;Title card with the still image of a man and woman standing near trees: 'Nice from the sea'. Panning shot of Nice shoreline, seen from the water. Shot of the beach. The Jetée-Pr...
20) 0660.0005 American Indian
Date from edge code on film. // Hopi House. Grand Canyon. Native American dance with two men. Drummer outside. Various shots of larger group of Indians dancing. About 10 Indians...;Shot of Hopi House, a multilevel stone building. (Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona) Four men, two dancers and two drummers, perform in Native American dress. Shots of a diffe...
28) 0691.0006 [Mahlon Walsh--home movies] Reel 6
Family footage, especially of Sally Walsh through age approx. 9 years old. NHF cataloguer's notes, 2/96: (25 min.) Christmas morning. Tricycle. Girl grinning with Christmas stoc...
22) 0696.0004 [Bucksport Mill footage] NHF Reel 4
NHF notes: Footage of the construction of the Maine Seaboard Paper Company milli in Bucksport, Maine. Appears to be professionally shot. Includes shots of man on scaffolding, p...
6) 0700.0007 [Central Maine Power footage] Reel 7 Accession 0700
Intertitle: "Central Maine Power Co. lays submarine cable across mouth of Kennebec River to Popham Beach, June 7, 1938." Intertitle: " Cable manufactured by Simplex Wire & Cabl...
24) 0702.0001 [Lloyd B. Hayes--home movies] Reel 1
Men walk among piles of lobster traps along the water as a few young boys explore the traps. One of the men wrestles with a boy. Footage of the fishermen sitting on lobster tr...
31) 0702.0002 [Lloyd B. Hayes--home movies] Reel 2
Footage of young boy and woman exploring a broken-down shack. A shot of them standing on the rocks on Baker’s Island, ME, near the water and a few shots of the water splashing ...
29) 0702.0003 [Lloyd B. Hayes--home movies] Reel 3
Footage of a boy rowing a boat around Spurling Cove, ME, including shots of him untying the boat from the dock and getting in the boat and then tying the boat back up to the doc...
33) 0702.0004 [Lloyd B. Hayes--home movies] Reel 4
The steamboat J.T. Morse of Eastern S.S. Lines pulls into Spurling Cove, ME, filled with passengers. Rachel Millard talks with one of the crew members as they walk around the s...
18) 0702.0005 [Lloyd B. Hayes--home movies] Reel 5
Rachel Millard and two other women greet each other at the docks. A man steps in a rowboat and paddles around a bit. The man and two women row the boat to shore, the women get...
13) 0702.0006 [Lloyd B. Hayes--home movies] Reel 6
People get into a launch. A shot of ladies in the back of the launch. Two shots of schooners as a launch passes by. A man helps two ladies exit the launch. Footage of people...
30) 0702.0007 [Lloyd B. Hayes--home movies] Reel 7
Two women walk along the shore. A man and a young girl in swimsuits shake hands. The man attempt to give her a piggy-back ride and they both fall in the water. Footage of peo...
31) 0706.0031 [Forrest Colby--home movies] Reel 31
Label on film: '1938.' // 1938 edge code on film.
27) 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...
30) 0714.0002 [Dr. A.K. Schuster--home movies] Little Log Cabin in the Northern Pines
Amateur story film called 'The Little Log Cabin in the Northern Pines' by Dr. A.K. Schuster of New Haven, CT, a dentist who came to Brownville, Maine, with his daughter, Frances...
48) 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...
3) 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...
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