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NORTHEAST
H I S TO R I C
FILM
Videos of Life
in New England
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Jane Morrison.....................18
Movie Queen.......................12
New England Places......19-21
Oral History.........................22
Politics..................................22
Sports..................................23
Student Work.................23-24
Technology..........................24
Television.............................25
Transportation....................25
Women’s Topics...................26
Woods............................26-28
Membership Information...29
Index...............................30-31
American Indians..................3
Artists and Authors...............4
Boats and the Sea..............5-6
Children.................................7
City Life..................................8
Civil War.................................8
Colonial Times.......................8
Country Life.....................9-10
Early Film.............................11
Ecology and Energy............12
Feature Films.................13-15
Fisheries...............................16
Franco-American Life.........17
Going to the Movies Talks
and Summer Symposia......18
Home Movies......................18
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American Indians
Abenaki of Vermont: A Living Culture
Our Dances
This is an intimate look at the lives of contemporary Penobscot Indian Island School student project demonstrates
Abenaki Indians and how they stay connected to the traditional and tribal dances with clay animation scenes and live
traditions and values of their forebears.
action. 1997. 30 minutes. VHS
30 minutes. VHS
Our Lives in Our Hands
Micmac Indian basketmaking cooperative in northern Maine. 1988.
50 minutes. DVD
Earth Medicine
A four part series on the use of plants and trees by Little Tree,
now a Vermont resident. 4 DVD’s, 2 episodes per DVD. 1975.
Appx. 240 minutes for the series. PERF
Penobscot Basketmaker—Barbara Francis
The life and basketry work of Barbara Francis, a Penobscot who
lived on Indian Island, Maine. 2002. 52 minutes. DVD
The First Mainers
Passamaquoddy Indians of Pleasant Point and Indian Township.
1975. 22 minutes. VHS
Gabriel Women: Passamaquoddy Basketmakers
Mary Gabriel, born in 1908 on the Passamaquoddy Reservation in
Indian Township, Maine, and honored as a National Heritage
Fellow in 1994, tells the inspiring story of learning
the centuries-old basketmaking tradition from
her grandmother, and of passing the tradition
on to her two daughters, Sylvia and Clare. The
three women illustrate their commitment to
cultural values and how they have served as
mentors to others.
1999. 28 minutes. DVD
Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Keepers
Nuskicinuwatuwahtipon
25 edited conversations recorded between 2006 and 2008 in Maine
and New Brunswick, are thematically organized on 7 DVDs. They
range from humorous storytelling, oral history, and personal reminiscence to conversations about everyday experiences,
past and present. 2009. DVD set
Song of the Drum: The Petroglyphs of Maine
In Maine, the Native Americans began carving images into stone
ledges beginning about 3,000 years ago. These petroglyphs, probably the work of shamans, were used as metaphors of the spirit
quest or to help memorize chants. Because the petroglyphs had
powerful spiritual qualities, they were avoided by the uninitiated.
This film presents explanations and ideas about what the images
mean and how they changed as the ideas of the people who made
them changed. 2004. 47 minutes. DVD
Invisible
Wabanaki: A New Dawn
This film examines some of the history
of the relations between the white and
the Indian communities in Maine.
Through individual voices, it looks at
underlying reasons for the racism so
deeply embedded in white American
culture and how that culture continues
to shape Native American reality today.
DVD includes 83 minutes of
supplemental interviews. 2005. 59 minutes.
DVD
Cultural survival and revival of Wabanaki
of Maine and Maritime Canada. Interviews,
music, dance. Produced on behalf of Maine
Indian Tribal-State Commission. DVD
The Wind Bird
Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People
Animated (claymation) student film based on Native American
(Penobscot) mythology. 2001. 18 minutes. VHS
Archaeology of the circumpolar region, including coastal New
England. 1987. 60 minutes. VHS
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Artists and Authors
Bernice Abbott: A View of the Twentieth Century
Maine Masters Project
Life and work of one of America’s most significant photographers; Maine artists interviewed in their studios discussing their lives and
she lived in Maine into her 90s. 1992. 56 minutes. VHS
work. Each 30 minutes. DVD
Louis Dodd. 2009.
Stephen Pace. 2008.
Harold Garde. 2002.
Donald Hall & Jane Kenyon: A Life Together
Robert Hamilton. 2007.
New Hampshire poets read from their works at home and in the
Dahlov Ipcar. 2003.
grange hall. 1994. 60 minutes. VHS
Alan Magee. 2002.
Olive Pierce. 2002.
Children of Iraq (Olive Pierce). 2002.
William Thon. 2002.
Renascence: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay, one of Maine’s most famous writers. 1993.
58 minutes. DVD
May Sarton: She Knew a Phoenix
Gayleen
Vermont painter Gayleen Aiken illustrates days gone by: granite
quarries, old country houses. A film by Jay Craven.
May Sarton reads some of her work and talks about the meaning
of her poetry, women’s roles and her views on feminism, and the
source of her ability to write. 1980. 28 minutes.
DVD PERF
May Sarton: Woman of Letters
Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver
Last interview with writer May Sarton (1912-1995)
including readings of her works. 1995. 30 minutes. VHS
Renowned carver from Southwest Harbor, Maine.
On My Own: Traditions of Daisy Turner
Grace: A Portrait of Grace DeCarlton Ross
Recollections, poems and stories of 102-year-old African American
woman from Grafton, Vermont. 1986. 28 minutes. VHS
Independent filmmaker Huey traces Ross’ silent film and dance
careers. 1983. 50 minutes. VHS PERF
Honest Vision: A Portrait of Todd Webb
Poem in Action
A film by Huey, Portland filmaker. A documentary about the
photographer as told through the stories of Webb himself.
Portrait of poet Vincent Ferrini from Gloucester, Massachussetts,
and his commitment to the unity of art and life. 1990.
58 minutes. VHS
In the Spirit of Haystack
Portrait of George Hardy
Noted craft school in Deer Isle, Maine. 1979. 10 minutes.
sound. DVD
Examination of relationship of a woodcarver with those who buy
his works. Strong vision of life Down East. Winner of Cine
Golden Eagle. A film by Gabriel Coakley. 1995. 30 minutes. VHS
James FitzGerald: A Painter’s Journey
FitzGerald (1899-1971) came from Boston, lived on Monhegan
Island, Maine. 1997. 57 minutes. VHS
Richard Estes: A Documentary
Contemporary photorealist describes his boyhood home
in Illinois and his life as an artist in New York and Maine. 1998.
30 minutes. VHS
MacDowell: An American Artists’ Colony
Peterborough, New Hampshire refuge for poets, playwrights,
composers, painters, sculptors and authors. Over the years, many
famous artists created some of their greatest work there. In fact,
more than 50 MacDowell colonists have won Pulitzer Prizes. This
historical documentary provides an inside view of the Colony and
how it works. 1996. 60 minutes. VHS
Robert Frost’s New Hampshire
A tour of the locations which inspired the poet with video
adaptations of some of his most beloved poems.
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Boats and the Sea
American Challenge Alone Against the Atlantic
Hollywood Comes to Vinalhaven:
The Making of Deep Waters
On-board story of seven solo sailors in the Observer Single-handed
Trans Atlantic Race. 1982. 57 minutes. VHS
Deep Waters, an adaptation of Ruth Moore’s Spoonhandle, was
filmed on Vinalhaven Island off the coast of Maine in 1947. Featured actors were Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero and
Dean Stockwell. This documentary includes behind -the- scenes
anecdotes, archival photographs and home movies, and reminiscences from island residents old enough to have experienced the
production and young enough to remember. 75 minutes. DVD
Around Cape Horn
Captain Irving Johnson aboard the bark Peking. 1929.
37 minutes. DVD
Bluenose 1956
M.V. Bluenose cruise ship operated by Canadian National Railways/ CN Marine between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Bar
Harbor, Maine, Maiden voyage January 1956 and “Bluenose Day”
in Bar Harbor June 7, 1956. Speeches and interviews with all of
those involved. 62 minutes. DVD
Jenny’s Island Life
Nash Island and the woman who
continued to love it the most, the remarkable
and strong-willed Jenny Cirone.
Casco Bay
Part of the series on the Great Bays of Maine, presented by Down
East, as seen on Public TV. Hosted by Curtis Rindlaub, publisher
of A Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast. This program features
Cundy’s Harbor, its islands and lighthouses. 1996. 60 minutes. VHS The Jeremiah O’Brien, Homecoming
Liberty Ship returns to Portland, Maine, where she was built in
1943. 1994. 59 minutes. DVD
Downeast Lobsterman
Maine lobstering in the mid-50s through the profile of Pat Moore
of Five Islands. Memories shared by Billy Plummer III lobsterman
and boat builder, and reflections by folklorist and musician, Bill
Bonyun. Wooden bouys and traps, hand-woven nets and carved
wooden pegs were lobstering tools of bygone times that come
back to life in this video. 2006. 30 minutes. DVD
Launching of Doris Hamlin
Launching of four-masted schooner in 1919 in Harrington, Maine
with Boston as home port. VHS
Legendary Lighthouses: North Atlantic & Maine
A traveler’s guide to lighthouses in New England. 1998.
120 minutes. VHS
The Friendship Sloop
A look at two Maine boatbuilders dedicated to
preserving the classic Friendship Sloop: one using
the old craft of shaping wood by hand, the
other using modern materials.
Lighthouses of Maine: A Journey Through Time
Stories about seventy Maine lighthouses and the people who lived
in them. 2003. 55 minutes. DVD
Light Spirit: Lighthouses of the Maine Coast
Looks at each of the sixty-plus lighthouses that grace the coast of
Maine, with Jack Perkins, host of A&E’s Biography. 1997.
54 minutes. VHS
Gloucester’s Adventure
Documentary about the schooner Adventure,
the last American dory-trawler. 2002.
58 minutes. DVD
Maine Lighthouses: The Last Watch
From Portland Head Light commissioned by George Washington
to the present day Pemaquid Point Light museum.
Gus Skoog: Boat Builder of Vinalhaven, Maine
The building of a 34 foot wooden lobster boat in an island boat
shop. 1999. 50 minutes. DVD
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Boats and the Sea
Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Maine
Field guide to whales and seals. The Allied Whale Program at College
of the Atlantic. 1991. 24 minutes. VHS
South: Ernest Shackleton and the
Endurance Expedition: Voyage to Antarctica,
1914-1917, film 1919
New England’s Great River
Restored by the National Film and Television Archive of the British
Film Institute using original nitrate materials, surviving prints
and original glass slides. Restored edition 1988. 88 minutes. VHS
The Connecticut River was New England’s
first highway, the graceful path along which
European settlers came north to build Vermont’s early farms, villages and industries.
Hosted by storyteller and writer Willem
Lange, this fascinating video tours all 410
miles of the river and brings to life its epic
story. Visit Fort No. 4, a Colonial fort town
where Abenaki came to trade; tour Vermont’s Old Constitution House; and see
many other sites along the river, including
historic covered bridges. A Vermont Public
Television production. 2003. 60 minutes. VHS
Tales of Wood and Water
Visits to boat builders and sailors up and down the coast of Maine.
Trap Day
A documentary about the annual midwinter ritual of setting lobster
traps off Monhegan, Maine. 1977. 27 minutes. VHS
Tugboat
Outward Bound
A look at the Maine version of the adventure course on Hurricane Island. One of the eight students’ challenges depicted here:
navigate a small boat off the rocky coast of Maine safely to land by
nightfall. 1989. 27 minutes. VHS
Documentary about the Clyde B. Holmes, the
last commercially-operated steam screw
tugboat. 1978. 14 minutes. DVD
Peapods of the Maine Coast
Interviews with 12 individuals who have knowledge of the
Peapod. The little double-ended boats known as peapods have
played an essential role in the life and history of Maine. They are
thought to have originated around 1870, or earlier, around Penobscot Bay. They were the original Maine lobster boat, as fishermen
could row either way, and walk up the side to haul a trap. This
series of interviews commemorates the boats and captures some
of the history and knowledge held by a generation who has seen
them pass from working to largely recreational crafts.
85 minutes. DVD
The Ways at Wallace and Sons & The Bank Dory
Footage of boatbuilding seafaring and maritime skills. 1984.
58 minutes. VHS
Yachting in the 30s
Compilation of J Boat footage from various
sources. 1978. 14 minutes. VHS
Pemaquid: Stewards by the Sea
This story of Pemaquid Peninsula on midcoast Maine is told by
the place itself and the people who call it home.
59 min. DVD
Penobscot Bay
Explores Maine islands, harbors and landmarks. 1994.
55 minutes. VHS
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Sea Captain’s Port
A portrait of Searsport, Maine, located on the north end of
Penobscot Bay. A guided history of Searsport and the stories of its
sea captains. 1997. 45 minutes. VHS
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Children
Awesome Whales for Kids
On Board the Morgan:
America’s Last Wooden Whaler
It is dedicated to showing the awesome nature of
whales. Produced to put you on the boat, at least it
will seem like you are there, enjoying the whales and
the boat ride. 67 minutes. DVD
Archival photographs, rare film footage of
whaling. 1992. 23 minutes. VHS
Big Horse
Paul Bunyan
Two horses, Spike and Smitty, talk about their
lives as working animals. 1995.
30 minutes. DVD
The tall tale of the logging exploits of the hero and his blue ox
Babe. 1990. 30 minutes. VHS
Paul Bunyan: Favorite Stories
Disney animated version of the logging legend as he cut a path
across America. Also includes short story Little Hiawatha 1960.
27 minutes. VHS
Children of the Northern Lights
Children’s book creators Ingri and Edgar d’Aulaire. 1976.
20 minutes. VHS
Robert McCloskey Library
Five beloved stories with McCloskey’s illustrations: Lentil, Make
Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal, Time of Wonder, Burt Dow:
Deep-Water Man, and Getting to Know Robert McCloskey. 1990.
58 minutes. VHS
Homer Price Stories
Robert McCloskey’s tales: The Doughnuts and The Case of the Cosmic
Comic. 1983. 52 minutes. VHS
Salt & Friends: Humpback Whales with Names
This Telly Award winning program allows you
to meet Salt, eight of her calves, and 40 other
named whales. 60 min. DVD
Let’s Go to the Farm with Mac Parker
The Bessette family farm, Vermont, in the four
seasons. 1994. 60 minutes. VHS
The White Heron
Mac Parker’s Farm Stories for Families
A young girl’s choice between friendship and a creature she loves.
Story by Sarah Orne Jewett. 1989. 26 minutes. DVD
Vermont storyteller Mac Parker tells his
favorite stories. Footage includes Shelburne
Farms and Elgin Spring Farm. Stories
include: Young One, What Do Peepers Talk About?,
The Story of Emma Perkins, Right of Way, Pig Poem,
Father and Son, and Night and Sleep.
The Maple Sugaring Story
Children’s video with teacher workbook.
1989. 28 minutes. DVD PERF
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City Life
Civil War
Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine
24 Hours
Maine Civil War hero: Fredericksburg,
Gettysburg, Appomattox. 1994.
55 minutes. DVD
Fire fighting in Portland, Maine, with memorable
narration. Produced by Earle Fenderson. 1963. 27
minutes. DVD PERF
Anchor of the Soul
African American history in northern New
England through the story of a Portland
church. 1994. 60 minutes. DVD
Meade of Gettysburg
General George Gordon Meade reluctantly took command of the
Army of the Potomac only three days before the Battle of Gettysburg.
Filled with personal accounts and period music this video takes an
intimate look at the controversial and often missunderstood man who
handed Confederate General Robert E. Lee his first defeat.
Bill Wilson Story
Docudrama on juvenile delinquency made for Portland, Maine,
social service agencies by James Petrie. 1952. 14 minutes.
VHS PERF
Noble Hearts: Civil War Vermont
The Wilderness and Cedar
Creek, Vermont regiments were called upon
to fight the Civil War. Mills hummed with
the manufacture of woolen blankets and
uniforms and large farms shipped apples,
potatoes and hay to support the war effort.
Can I Get There From Here?
Urban youth, families, work, homelessness in Portland, Maine.
1981. 29 minutes. VHS PERF
Experience Portland Maine
Tour Maine’s largest, most vibrant coastal city and discover why
people love Portland. 2003. 120 minutes. DVD
Colonial Times
Leather Soul Working For a Life in a Factory Town
A Little Rebellion Now and Then
Documentary about the leather shops and factories in Peabody,
Massachusetts. Narrated by Studs Terkel. 1991. 45 minutes. VHS
Constitutional Convention of 1787; Massachusetts farmers uprising in Shays Rebellion. Includes section on Maine. 1986.
30 minutes. VHS
The Night Portland Burned
The fire started at the corner of Maple and
lower Commercial Street and spread across
the city and up Munjoy Hill destroying everything in its path before burning itself out
at the edge of Eastern Cemetery.
Losses were estimated at 15 million dollars.
People from all over the country reached out
to the people of Portland. 27 minutes. DVD
The Other Boston Tea Party
Dramatization of the issues confronted by Samuel Adams and
Colonial American citizens. Adapted from the original stage
production. 1989. 59 minutes. VHS
Penobscot: The Battle No One Ever Heard Of
The Battle of the Penobscot (1779) has been described as the
worst defeat (save Pearl Harbor) our navy has ever suffered. This
program about the Penobscot Expedition is an account of the
expedition and the historical events surrounding it, and a report on
the reenactment of the battle which was staged as a Bicentennial
celebration. 30 minutes. DVD
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Country Life
Aroostook County, 1920s
Conversations with Farmers
Agriculture--potato growing with horse power. Downtown Presque
Isle, Maine. Aroostook Valley Railroad electric trolley. 1928. 20 minutes.
DVD PERF
Sustainable agriculture and Maine’s family farms. 2000.
56 minutes. DVD
Down East Dairyland
Produced by the Maine Dept. of Agriculture. 1972. 14 minutes.
VHS PERF
The Farming Project: Troubled Harvest
Barns: Legacy of Wood and Stone
Documentary on Vermont family farms in 4 parts: Part I: The
People, Part II: The Market, Part III: The Tools and Part IV: The
Future. 1994. 120 minutes. VHS
Tour some of Vermont’s most picturesque
barns. From humble structures to magnificent complexes, from a towering behemoth
to a 10-sided dairy barn still in use. 2002.
60 minutes. DVD
Our Farmers: Eight Years Later
In 1992, Vermont Public Television produced a 4-part program on
the state of Vermont agriculture. The series covered the experiences of six farm families. Now eight years later, Our Farmers
revisits these families to see what, if anything, has changed. This
video explores the economic, social, and agricultural issues facing
farms today. Organic farming, land trusts and agri-tourism are all
discussed in this in-depth look at the human side of family farming. 60 minutes. VHS
A Century of Summers
The impact of a summer colony on a small
Maine coastal community by Hancock native
Sandy Phippen. 1987. 45 minutes.
DVD PERF
Giant Horses
Draft horses and their teamsters. 1993. 30 minutes. DVD
Change and Challenge
Hap Collins of South Blue Hill, Maine
An Orton Family Foundation Video: Tools for Community Action.
Contains four segments: Vermonters at Work, Vermont’s Working Jeff Titon’s oral history interview with field footage of a lobsterman, painter and poet. 1989. 56 minutes. DVD
Landscape, Industrious Vermont and Vermont Patterns of
Settlement. 1999. 93 minutes. VHS
A History of Kittery
Cherryfield, 1938
Learn about Maine’s oldest incorporated town from the early establishment of the shipbuilding industry to Kittery Point and the Isles
of Shoals. 1999. 25 minutes. VHS
A terrific home movie about rural spring.
Ice Harvesting Sampler
Five short films showing a near-forgotten New England industry.
Narration by Philip C. Whitney explains process and tools. 1994.
26 minutes. DVD PERF
Closing the Circle: The Alewife Run
in Damariscotta Mills
This documentary explores the relationship between the people
of a small Maine village, Damariscotta Mills, and the harvest of
alewives as it evolves over time. The film captures the arrival of
thousands of alewives and reflects on the influence of their migrations on local heritage, culture, and survival during the last two
centuries. 2005. 30 minutes. DVD
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Country Life
In Days Gone By Vermont Country Ways
Potato Eaters
Vermonters share memories of early 20th century rural life. 2000.
60 minutes. DVD
Educational film about the history of the potato. 1967.
15 minutes. VHS
Keeping the Tradition Alive: One Town’s Story
Rural Free Delivery 1-3, 4-6 & 7-10
Five Lincoln, Massachusetts residents, calling themselves The Farm
Team, came together to produce this documentary about the rural
character of the town and its farming heritage. 2000.
45 minutes. VHS
“How to” series on gardening, crafts, home decorating. Garden
design, spring planting, soap making, sugaring, coldframe, tomato
planting, birdhouses, carving, stenciling, wall murals, salvage warehouses, country stores. 1998. 90 minutes. VHS
L.L. Bean Biography
Schoodic: Where Sea Meets Land
The story of Leon Leonwood Bean, founder of the famous outdoor outfitter. 2001. DVD
Land for Learning: Justing Morrill and America’s
Land Grant Colleges and Universities
A “practical education” in agriculture and engineering, made
possible by a Vermont senator. 1998. 60 minutes. VHS
This DVD is about the communities of Gouldsboro, Prospect
Harbor, Corea and Winter Harbor, Maine. They all share a peninsula on the coast and an understanding of magic. It is the magic
of ocean knocking against a rocky coast, or sun burning through
a lingering morning fog. It is the magic found in the practical approach to living that is engendered on this coastal peninsula. As
Lobsterman Dale Torrey puts it, “You can’t explain it, it’s
just in you.” 57 minutes. DVD
Sins of Our Mothers
Lobstertown
Girl who went to the Massachusetts textile mills from Fayette,
Maine. 1989. 60 minutes. VHS PERF
For home or classroom viewing only. Community life and lobstering in Corea, Maine, 1947. 27 minutes. DVD
Swanton Community Video
The Long Trail: A Footpath in the Wilderness
An Orton Family Foundation Video: Tools for Community Action.
Swanton, Vermont. 2001. 12 minutes. VHS
A history of Vermont’s Long Trail, the oldest hiking trail in
America. 2001. 60 minutes. VHS
Tales from the North Country
Maine Summer Festival
17 of Author Willem Lange’s favorite tales, like doctoring a sick
goat, finding your way in the woods and how to handle a stinky
visitor in your cellar! VHS
The role of agricultural products in summer fairs. 1970.
12 minutes. VHS PERF
Trail to Better Dairying
In the 1940s there was a shortage of milk
and quality dairy cattle in Hancock County,
Maine. To remedy this, Maine’s first countywide 4-H club was born. This film was
made to document this groundbreaking first
year. The children show off their progress
and their calves in visits to each of their
homes. Their efforts are rewarded at the
1946 Blue Hill Fair and at their end-of-theyear banquet at the Trenton Lobster Pound. 44 minutes DVD
Nature’s Blueberryland
Maine’s harvesting of wild blueberries. 1975. 13 minutes.
VHS PERF
Paris, 1929 and Other Views
Home movies of the Wright family in Paris, Maine. Haying and
picnics and rural living. 1929. 80 minutes. VHS PERF
An Unlikely Cathedral
Part-Time Farmer
Promotes agriculture as an after-hours pursuit. 1975. 17 minutes.
DVD PERF
Northrunner
Moosilauke, Dartmouth and the Ravine Camp 1909-1939. 1999.
31 minutes. VHS
Words from Millie’s Garden: The Story of
Pettengill Farm
Millie Pettengill lived in an historic house overlooking the Harraseeket
The history of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway from its creation River in Freeport, Maine for 100 years. 2003. 50 minutes. DVD
in 1966 to its 40th anniversary. 50 minutes. DVD
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Early Film
All But Forgotten
My Lady O’ the Pines
Documentary on the Holman Day film company (1920-1921) in Maine; by Everett Foster.
A two-reel North Woods drama by movie writer Holman Day, starring
Mary Astor. 1921. 26 minutes. DVD
The Sailor’s Sacrifice
Brother of the Bear
Short romance drama by TheVitagraph Company shot in southern
Maine. A sailor leaves his family to go to sea and is thought lost
when his boat sinks. The family loses its home and the young
woman has to dig clams with her dog Jean. 1909. 20 minutes. VHS
Man with a temper befriends a bear, learns to control his temper
and wins the daughter of the mill owner and a job running the
sawmill. A Holman Day Production. 1921. DVD
Shadows
Cupid, Registered Guide
Lon Chaney as a Chinese laundryman caught in a web of jealousy
and extortion. Set in a Maine fishing town (but not shot in New
England). 1922. 68 minutes. VHS
A two-reel North Woods comedy by Maine writer Holman Day
The Simp and the Sophomores
Earliest Maine Films
Oliver Hardy plays Prof. Arm-strong. The earliest surviving film
with Hardy. Found by NHF. 1915. 14 minutes. VHS
Lobstering, trout fishing, logging, canoeing
on Moosehead Lake, and potato growing,
from 1901 to 1920. 1901. 44 minutes.
DVD PERF
A Vermont Romance
The Vermont Progressive Party’s moral tale about an orphaned
country girl forced to take factory work in town. 1916.
47 minutes. VHS
Way Down East
Earliest Massachusetts Films
Eighteen film segments dating from 1897 to 1906 covering city
scenes, transportation, military/political footage, work, recreation
and entertainment. 2006. 60 minutes. DVD
D.W. Griffith directs Lillian Gish as a poor New Englander who
visits her wealthy cousins, falls in love with Richard Barthelmess,
and faces a scandalous past. 1920. 149 minutes. VHS
Just Maine Folks
A bawdy hayseed one-reeler. Poor image quality. 1913. 8 minutes.
VHS PERF
The Knight of the Pines
Another North Woods adventure by Maine writer Holman Day.
Making of an American
An Italian immigrant realizes the importance of learning English.
Connecticut Dept. of Americanization. 1920. 14 minutes. DVD
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Ecology and Energy
The Movie Queen
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Movie Queen, Bar Harbor
Her 1963 book about pesticides helped raise ecological consciousness.
A pretend movie queen visits her hometown in Bar Harbor, Maine.
The “Movie Queen” plot was a theme intended to show off local
sites and shops and was duplicated in other towns throughout New
England. 1936. 24 minutes. VHS
Helen Nearing: Conscious Living/Concious Dying
This video examines the lives and deaths of Maine authors Helen
Nearing and her husband, Scott, who were best known for their
book about homesteading practices called Living the Good Life.
More than a biography, this hour-long documentary looks at the
Nearings’ commitment to self-sufficiency and voluntary simplicity
and unveils the spiritual philosophy that underlay their lives and
work. 2000. 56 minutes. DVD
Voices from Maine
Is economics incompatible with nature? Discussion of
development versus quality of life. 1970. 30 minutes. VHS
Who has Seen the Wind?
Documentary about the study of wind with section on New
Hampshire’s Mt. Washington. 2000. 57 minutes. VHS
Wyman Station
Movie Queen2000, Bucksport
Based on the work of pioneering filmmaker, Margaret Cram, this
movie queen features the townspeople and businesses of present
day Bucksport, Maine. 2000. 28 minutes. DVD
Movie Queen, Lincoln
A pretend movie queen visits her hometown in Lincoln, Maine.
Parade, followed by visit to garage, lake, playtime, electric store, bus
arrives at hotel. Kidnap drama. 1936. 37 minutes. VHS
Movie Queen, Lubec
A pretend movie queen visits her home town in Down East Maine.
Movie Queen, Middlebury
A pretend movie queen visits her hometown in Middlebury, VerCentral Maine Power film on the construction of Wyman Station
mont. The “Movie Queen plot was a theme intended to showoff
on the Kennebec River, with Daggettville, the workers’ town. 1928- local sites, shops, and townspeople and was duplicated in other
1930. 1928. 30 minutes. DVD PERF
towns throughout New England. 1939. 32 minutes. VHS
Movie Queen, Newport
A pretend movie queen visits her hometown in Newport, Maine.
The parade. Visits to shops, Oxbow Cabins. The kidnap, and rescue by hero on bicycle. 1936. 35 minutes. VHS
Movie Queen, Van Buren
Detailed account of this northern Maine town in the 1930s. The
people engaged in business and leisure. The circus comes to town,
Main Street, the swimming hole and a baseball game. May have
been part of a Margaret Cram “Movie Queen” production that featured some live production as well as filmed scenes.
33 minutes. DVD
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Feature Films No Public Performance Rights
Affliction
The Gazebo
Set in a small New England community. James Coburn, Nick Nolte
star. 1997. 20 minutes. VHS
Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds star in a comedy about a murder
plot. 1959. 100 minutes. . VHS
Alice’s Restaurant
Here Comes the Groom
Stars Arlo Guthrie as himself, and features music by Joni Mitchell,
Arlo and Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. New England area:
New York, Massachusetts. 1969. 101 minutes. VHS
Bing Crosby with orphans in Boston. 1951. 114 minutes. VHS
All the Brothers Were Valiant
The House of the Seven Gables
Whaling family in the south seas, based on a story by Ben Ames
Williams. 1953. 96 minutes. VHS
From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel. 1941. 89 minutes. VHS
Bed and Breakfast
I Married a Witch
Colleen Dewhurst carries this shot-in-Maine film about three
women, their B&B, and Roger Moore, who washed ashore. 1992.
96 minutes. VHS
Directed by Réné Clair, Starring Fredric March, and Veronica Lake
with co-stars Susan Hayward and Cecil Kellaway. 1942.
77 minutes. VHS
Before and After
The Inkwell
Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson, in the story of a small Massachussetts community. 1997. 108 minutes. VHS
Matty Rich directs coming of age in African American summer
community on Martha’s Vineyard in the 1970s. 1994.
112 minutes. VHS
Desire Under the Elms
Eugene O’Neill’s play, starring Tony Perkins as the good son, and Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Sophia Loren as his love, an Italian waitress who married his tough
Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. 1942. 101 minutes. VHS
old dad to acquire the farm. 1957. 111 minutes. VHS
Islander
Evangeline
Off the coast of Maine, families have lived
and worked the sea for generations. Everyone
knows each other. Birthright is akin to law
and men inherit their fishing territories. Eben
Cole (Thomas Hildreth) continues his family’s
legacy of harvesting lobsters, but after causing
Fear Strikes Out
a tragic accident at sea, Eben loses everything.
After serving five years in prison he returns deRed Sox tale, based on a true story. Anthony Perkins gives a stuntermined to win back the way of life he fought
ning performance as Jimmy Piersall. 1957. 100 minutes. VHS
so hard to protect. Only now he is an outcast,
his ex-wife Cheryl (Amy Jo Johnson) wants
nothing to do with him and fishermen see him as a harbinger of
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bad luck. Only Popper (Philip Baker Hall), an old, weathered and
Campaigning in the New Hampshire primary with Jerry Brown, Pat gruff fisherman gives Eben a chance to become an islander again.
Buchanan, George Bush, and Bill & Hillary Clinton. By Kevin Raf- 2006. 101 minutes. DVD
ferty & James Ridgeway. 1992. 76 minutes. VHS
The Acadian experience interpreted by Longfellow
and Hollywood, starring Dolores Del Rio. Opening reels silent,
the rest has music from original discs -- preserved by UCLA. 1929.
87 minutes. DVD
Funny Farm
Chevy Chase moves to the country in upstate New York to get
away from it all. 1988. 101 minutes. VHS
Kris Kristofferson: The Vermont Concert Live!
The benefit concert he performed to support the Vermont film,
Disappearances in which he starred. 2007. 41 minutes. DVD
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Feature Films No Public Performance Rights
Old Man Dogs
Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Bert Stern’s 1958 Newport Jazz Festival that included performances by Louis Armstrong, Anita O’Day, Thelonius Monk, Chuck
Berry, Mahalia Jackson and Dinah Washington. America’s Cup
yachting on the edges. 1958. 84 minutes. VHS
One year after his wife falls to her death while hiking Mt. Penobscot, a
man receives a call that leads him into a mystery. Back Lot Films. 1997.
88 minutes. VHS
One Crazy Summer
Set in Nantucket-with Demi Moore. 1986. 89 minutes. VHS
www.oldfilm.org
Parrish
Troy Donahue stars in a drama about control of the tobacco business in Connecticut. 1961. 138 minutes. VHS
Leave Her to Heaven
Ben Ames Williams’ story of the jealous Ellen Berendt (Gene Tierney),
who drowns her young brother-in-law in Deer Lake, Maine.
Vincent Price plays the Sussex County district attorney. 1945.
111 minutes. VHS
Peyton Place
Lost Boundaries
Portrait of Jennie
Produced by Louis de Rochemont. An African-American physician’s experiences with discrimination in the south and in
New Hampshire. 1949. 99 minutes. . VHS
Joseph Cotten stars in story of a New York artist and Jennie
(Jennifer Jones) his enigmatic muse. The film has been digitally
mastered. 1948. 86 minutes. VHS
Malice
Prophecy
Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, and Bill Pullman star in a suspense
film set in a New England college. 1993. 107 minutes. VHS
Horror: couple investigates terrifying eco-events in Maine. 1988.
102 minutes. VHS
Grace Metalious’s novel of a small scandal-ridden New England
town. Filmed in Camden, Maine. 1957. 157 minutes. VHS
Rachel, Rachel
Man with a Plan
Fred Tuttle, a retired Vermont dairy farmer, runs for Congress in
this comedy by John O’Brien. 1996. 90 minutes. DVD
Elementary school teacher Joanne Woodward lives with her mean
mother over the funeral parlor in a small New England town.
Directed by Paul Newman. 1968. 102 minutes. VHS
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
A Midwife’s Tale
Martha Ballard’s 18th century journals of Maine life, a period drama and a documentary of historian Laurel Ulrich’s work, by writer
producer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and director Richard Rogers. 1996.
89 minutes. VHS
Shirley Temple in the Kate Douglas Wiggin story. 1938.
81 minutes. VHS
Second Sight
Myth of Fingerprints
Comedy starring Bronson Pinchot and John Larroquette. 1989.
85 minutes. VHS
Blythe Danner, Julianne Moore, Roy Scheider, and Noah Wyle in
this comedy about a family reunion that goes awry. 1997.
91 minutes. VHS
The Seventh Day
Nosey Parker
A couple from suburbia move to rural Vermont. 2003. DVD
Romantic comedy places a group of New Yorkers in a coastal
Maine village and has them work out their cultural differences.
Filmed in New Harbor and Pemaquid, Maine. 1922.
65 minutes. DVD
Signs of Life
Old Ironsides
Directed by James Cruze and written by Dorothy Arzner. The
seafaring life, the grand old vessel. Based on 1830 poem by Oliver
Wendell Holmes. 1926. 111 minutes. VHS
With Kathy Barnes and Beau Bridges, shot around Deer Isle,
Maine: about the demise of a boat building company. Produced by
Down East Films. 1989. 94 minutes. VHS
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No Public Performance Rights
The Silent Enemy
Feature Films
To Die For
Drama shot on location in winter, starring Penobscot Indian Molly Spot- A woman who has always dreamed of being on TV
ted Elk. 1930. 121 minutes. VHS
and the lengths she’ll go to in order to make that dream come true.
Starring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, and Joaquin Phoenix. 1996.
102 minutes. VHS
Simon Birch
A film set in fictional Gravestown, Maine stars Ian Michael Smith.
Filmed in Toronto and Nova Scotia. 1999. 114 minutes. VHS
The Trouble with Harry
Alfred Hitchcock’s weird comedy, set in Vermont, starring Shirley
MacLaine and John Forsythe. 1955. 100 minutes. VHS
Stella Dallas
Out of the fictional Milhampton, Mass., Stella (Barbara Stanwyck)
and her daughter Laurel (Anne Shirley). 1937. 106 minutes. VHS
Two Sisters from Boston
Kathryn Grayson and June Allyson play two sisters from Boston
who go to New York in a humorous turn-of-the-century musical.
A Stolen Life
With Bette Davis as twins (good and evil, of course), with an island Vermont is for Lovers
refuge-and handsome but naïve lighthouse keeper Glenn Ford.
Two New Yorkers decide to celebrate their upcoming nuptials in
the lovely New England countryside -- but the peace and quiet
leaves them more stressed-out than ever. 1992. 88 minutes. DVD
Strange Interlude
Eugene O’Neill’s drama brought to the screen with voiceover
thoughts from Norma Shearer and Clark Gable. 1932.
89 minutes. VHS
The Viking
Early Canadian sound feature about two rival sealers, filmed on
location. 1931. 90 minutes. VHS
The Stranger
Orson Welles directs and stars as a Nazi in a drama taking place in
a New England viillage. 1946. 95 minutes. VHS
A Stranger in the Kingdom
The story of a small Vermont town where conflicts arise when a
black former Army chaplain arrives as the town’s new pastor and
finds himself charged with adultery and murder. 1998.
95 minutes. VHS
Where the River Flows North
Shot on location in Vermont and New Hampshire, directed by Jay
Craven. Woodsman (Rip Torn) and his American Indian companion (Tantoo Cardinal) in a story about timberland and water power.
Windy Acres
New York marketing ace Stephanie Burns loses her job. Eager
for a change, she discovers a website for “agricultural tourism” in
Vermont and impulsively stuffs her two daughters into a borrowed
car, setting out for unexpected adventure in the Green Mountains.
Once in Vermont, she meets rugged, love starved, hard-scrabble
Vermont farmer Lucien LaFlamme, and sparks start to fly. A 7 episode Vermont Comedy series starring Rusty De Wees and directed
by Jay Craven. 2004. 240 minutes. DVD
A Summer Place
Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue at Pine Island, Maine. Remember
the music? 1959. 130 minutes. VHS
Summer Stock
Judy Garland and Gene Kelly singing songs by Harold Arlen in the
sticks. 1950. 120 minutes. VHS
With Honors
Theodora Goes Wild
Theodora Lynne, played by Irene Dunne, wrote a scandalous novel in
a small Connecticut town--and went to New York. 1936. 94 minutes.VHS
A homeless man teaches a group of Harvard students some of
life’s important lessons. With Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser. 1994.
104 minutes. VHS
Young People
Vaudeville stars Shirley Temple and adoptive parents Jack Oakie
and Charlotte Greenwood retire to the hostile little town of
Kate Douglas Wiggin’s story of two orphans in the Maine country- Stonefield. Appointed one-man chamber of commerce as a joke,
side. Scenes of horse-drawn wagons, shoeing oxen, and other rural
Oakie eventually wins the town over to a vision of the future. 1940.
activities. 1922. 90 minutes. DVD
78 minutes. VHS
Timothy’s Quest
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Fisheries
Basic Net Mending
Maine State Archives Collection: Flavor of Maine
How to repair fish nets. 1951. 16 minutes. VHS PERF
Grand Banks dory fishing, stop-seining mackerel and herring, and
lobstering. 1996. 60 minutes. DVD
Fence in the Water
The Old Sardine Village Museum Series
Weir fishing for herring in Penobscot Bay, Maine, by independent
filmmaker Peg Dice. 1980. 45 minutes. DVD
Six videotapes (1 & 2, 7 & 8, 11 & 12) on Maine sardine packing
and life of the coast. Subjects in this volume: Hole & Cap Can
Shop, Stewart’s Blueberries, Blacksmith Shop, Eastern Steam Ship,
Dock, Reir Barn. 1994. Each video 120 minutes.
Also edited one tape version. VHS
Finest Kind
A small Maine fishing community fighting to continue making a
living from the sea. 1975. 28 minutes. DVD
Our Fishing Heritage
Grand Banks dory fishing, stop-seining mackerel and herring, and
lobstering. 1996. 60 minutes. DVD
Fishing for the Future
Documentary exploring questions about fisheries management
and ecological trends in commercial fishing. 2001. 56 minutes. VHS Salmon Country
Between the late 1940s and the late 1980s
Downeast Maine was world famous for its
Atlantic Salmon fishing. People came from
around the corner and around the world,
to cast a fly to the “king of the sport fish”.
Fortunately Phil Harriman of Cherryfield,
a visionary and dedicated salmon advocate
for more than 50 years, has preserved a
piece of history from the heyday of Atlantic salmon angling in Downeast Maine.
Phil takes us from landlocked fishing on Tunk Lake to the crowds
gathering to watch a sea-run salmon landed in downtown Cherryfield. The film truly brings you back to bygone days. DVD
It’s the Maine Sardine
Catching, packing and eating Eastport fish. 1949. 16 minutes.
DVD PERF
Life Lobster: Maine Lobsterman
Phil Alley shows how he catches lobsters, what it eats and about
the lobster’s annual cycle. By Peg Dice. 1976. 24 minutes.
DVD PERF
Maine’s Harvesters of the Sea
Fisheries including shrimp, cod, and lobster. 1968. 28 minutes.
DVD PERF
A Tale of Two Fisheries
Fishermen tell a tale of two fisheries in Maine. 1997.
16 minutes. VHS
The Maine Lobster
Tuna Fishing Off Portland Harbor, Maine
Lobster fisheries and consumption with unusual footage including
the assembly of lobster TV dinners. 1955. 30 minutes.
DVD PERF
Off-shore fishing with a Maine Sea and Shore Warden. 1930. 10
minutes. VHS PERF
Turn of the Tide
Drama about formation of a lobster cooperative; from the Vinalhaven Historical Society. 1943. 48 minutes. VHS
Maine Marine Worm Industry
A documentary about the Maine Bait Company and the process
of digging for worms, washing and packaging them, and shipping
them by rail or truck. 1941. 45 minutes. VHS
Under Water Out of Sight: An Ecosystem
Case Study
Underwater marine communities are changing as a result of growing fishing pressures. Study of the Gulf of Maine ecosystem.
Produced by Mainewatch Institute. 1996. 15 minutes. VHS
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Franco-American Life
Bonsoir Mes Amis
Portrait of two of Maine’s finest traditional Franco-American musicians.
Emigration: A Franco-American Experience
Traces French immigration to North America and documents the
history and culture of the Franco-American community in New
England. 1981. 30 minutes. VHS PERF
Evangeline’s Quest
Documentary examines the mythology of Evangeline and its relation to Acadian history. 1996. 53 minutes. VHS PERF
Franco-Americans: We Remember
Documentary on the history and cultural traditions of FrancoAmerican life. 1999. 60 minutes. DVD PERF
Lowell Mills—Irene Simoneau, Franco-American historian on the
role of women in the mills. Roger Paradis of Fort Kent, Maine,
about Franco-American folklore and music.
Organizers—Franco-American organizers and their success at
motivating people to action. “Assimilo,” a spoof exploring FrancoAmerican stereotypes.
Potato Harvest—Northern Maine. Interview and poetry reading
by Norm Dube in Bedford, NH.
Social Clubs—Old social clubs of Lewiston, Maine; the drinking
establishments of Madawaska, Maine. A portion of a slide presentation from New Hampshire, “I Too, Am New Hampshire.”
St. Mary’s Hospital—St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston, Maine
roots in the early 1800s. Teachers from New Hampshire on the
Canadian American Institute.
Porte Ouverte Sur Les Arts—Visits with artists and performers
from around Maine and New England including Julien Olivier,
storyteller, Gilbert Roy, artist, Buck McHenry, wood sculptor, Josee
Vachone, singer.
Recontre de Peuples Francophone, Quebec—Quebec City,
Canada, 1980.
Together in Time
Reflets et Lumiére
Three seasons of a television series on Franco-American culture
produced by the Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN).
The programs aired from 1979 to 1981. Sound and image quality
varies. VHS PERF
Acadian Villages, Acadian History—Interview with Guy Dubay
of Madawaska, Maine. Visits to the Acadian Village near Van
Buren, Maine, and le Village Acadian in Carquet, New Brunswick,
Canada. A short visit to Quebec City.
Assimilation—Interviews with Franco-Americans, young and
old, about growing up in an authoritarian, closed and rigid society.
Among matters discussed: the effects of being surrounded by an
English-speaking society with different values, customs and traditions. From a television series on Franco-American culture.
Bilingualism, Fact and Fiction—Interviews with FrancoAmericans, young and old, about facts and fictions of being
bilingual in a monolingual atmosphere. An interview with Antonine
Maillet, Acadian author and recipient of top honors for her many
novels about Acadian life.
Bilingualism, Church Reform—MPBN Series on FrancoAmerican Culture, Program 12
The Catholic Church—Amedée Proulx, Auxiliary Bishop of
Portland, Maine, and Raymond LaGasse, a married priest from
Concord, NH. An interview about Holyoke, Mass.
The Community, Old Town—Eugene Paradis recalls his earlier
years in Old Town, Maine, when life was run by bells, whistles and
horns. Visits with other Old Town residents who speak of their
lives today.
Festivals—Franco-American festivals in Lewiston, Maine; Lowell,
Mass.; Old Town, Maine. Franco-American studies in Waterville,
Maine. Arts and crafts fair in Manchester, NH.
Immigration...the Journey—Immigration movement of
French-Canadians to New England at the turn of the century.
Two puppets comment on the program after it is over.
A Story of New England Contra Music and Dance—Celtic and
French Canadian music traditions combined in New England contra dance music. 2001. 27 minutes. DVD
Waking up French (Reveil)
Documentary film that explores the struggle for cultural
survival among the Franco-American communities of New
England. The film traces French heritage beginning with immigration from Canadian provinces of Quebec and Acadia through the
persecution by Ku Klux Klan and language loss, to cultural renaissance and heritage preservation. 2006. 81 minutes. DVD
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Home Movies Amateur Film
Archie Stewart Collection
Glen Andres—Middlebury College, places for community entertainment in Vermont.
Donna Brown—University of Vermont, vacationing at the turn
of the century.
Martha Day—University of Vermont, Vermont documentary
films.
Kathryn Fuller—Virginia Commonwealth University, rural moviegoers and Uncle Josh.
Leger Grindon—Middlebury College, boxing films.
Henry Jenkins—MIT, Star Wars & fan culture.
Garth Jowett—University of Houston, the moviegoing experience.(24 minutes)
Garth Jowett—University of Houston, movie audiences in the
1950s. (44 minutes)
Susan Kennedy-Kalafatis—University of Vermont, who we
are--mapping ancestries in northern New England.
Chester H. Liebs—Drive-ins.
Andre Senecal—University of Vermont, Franco-Americans and
the movies.
Tom Streeter—University of Vermont, new technologies over
the years.
Denise Youngblood—University of Vermont, movie theaters
before 1918.
All available on VHS
Archie Stewart was one of the earliest amateur filmmakers to use
sound on his home movies. He lived in Newburgh, New York, and
Grand Lake Stream, Maine. Includes an automobile trip crossing into
Maine and visiting LL Bean to purchase supplies for a hunting trip.
Summer Symposia
Miss Olympia
Amateur comic drama. Miss Olympia writes and offers her skills to
the Town Improvement Committee for a day. An imposter takes advantage of her late arrival and steps in only to be exposed when the real
Miss Olympia shows up. 1939. 19 minutes. VHS
My Grandparents Had a Hotel
Documentary using family film by Canadian Karen Shopsowitz. To
purchase, call Filmmakers Library, 212 808-4980. 1989.
26 minutes. VHS
My Father’s Camera
Documentary using family film by Canadian Karen Shopsowitz.
Jane Morrison & Independent
Summer Film Symposium 2001
Master Smart Women
Four part series taped at the July, 2001 Summer Film Symposium
held at Northeast Historic Film. All available on VHS
Maine novelist Sarah Orne Jewett (1850-1909) by Jane Morrison.
Patricia Zimmerman—Morphing History into Histories
Patricia is a professor at Ithica College and the author of Reel
Families: A Social History of Amateur Film. Discussion on the historiography of home movies. “The archives is not about the past,
it’s about the future.” 109 minutes.
Mark Neumann—Home Movies on Freud’s Couch
Mark, then associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida, discuss looking at home
movies by a patient of Dr. Freud’s, by Archie Stewart, and others.
68 minutes.
Eric Schwartz, Esq—Intellectual Property Law and Rights of
Privacy in Relation to Home Movies.
An overview of the rights and the responsibilities of users of
home movies. 81 minutes.
Eric Schaefer—Plain Brown Wrapper: Adult Films for the
Home Market, 1930-1970
Eric is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts for Emerson College and is an executive member of the
Society for Cinema Studies. A study of 8mm “art” and adult films
made to be shown at home. 103 minutes.
Lipstick
Experimental Super 8 film. [NOTE: contains nudity and adult
subject matter.] 1974. 5 minutes. VHS
Los Dos Mundos de Angelita/The Two
Worlds of Angelita
A Puerto Rican family’s move to the Lower East Side of New
York. 1982. 73 minutes. VHS
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Muscongus Pond, A Potter’s Place
Potter Connie Romero talks about relationship between her work
and her cabin on the pond. 1979. 20 minutes. VHS
Uncle Blaine
Life on a cattle ranch in the American West. By Jane Morrison.
New England Places
Great Flood of 1936: The Connecticut River Story
It was the greatest disaster ever recorded along the Connecticut
River, making 430,000 people homeless and leaving over $500 million worth of damage in its path. (In today’s dollars, the cost would
have been over 6.5 billion!) Filmmaker Ed Klekowski returns to
chronicle the flood that devastated 12 states, including most of
New England in 1936. 58 minutes. DVD
Assignment in Aroostook
Loring Air Force Base in northern Maine closed in 1994. This is a
look at its heyday: Mom at home, the sergeant at work, the family
at play. 1956. 27 minutes. DVD PERF
Great Cranberry Island
Bayside
Amateur film by Robert Browning of a young boy on Cranberry
Isles, Maine, learning about island life. 1930. 60 minutes.
VHS PERF
A historical and current portrait of the town of Bayside, on the
coast of Maine. 1996. 28 minutes. VHS
History is Always Being Made in Bucksport
Castine
History of Champion International paper mill and the town. 1995.
23 minutes. VHS
The coastal town of Castine, Maine. 2004. 58 minutes. DVD
Changing the Landscapes: Vermont’s Past Century
Vermont during the 1900’s. 1999. 60 minutes. VHS
Eastport
Eastport, Maine, the easternmost city in the United States. 1999.
55 minutes. VHS
Eight Ways to Fish
A video about the community of Deer Isle in Maine’s Penobscot
Bay. 2003. 60 minutes. DVD
Experience Portland Past
400 years in the history of Portland, Maine. 2003.
70 minutes. DVD
A Faire Towne, Family Profile: Taking Care of
the Old Man
History of York, Maine. Filmed by Louis de Rochemont. 1952.
15 minutes. VHS
From Dreamland Sent
History of the 1893 Maine State Building now in Poland Spring,
Maine. 1995. 25 minutes. VHS
Granite by the Sea
History of Lake View Plantation
Documentary about Lake View Plantation, Maine, combining still
photos, a tour of historic site and footage of its 2001 celebration.
Home, the Story of Maine
Two seasons of a television series on Maine culture produced by the
Maine Public Broadcasting Network. The programs aired from 1999
to 2000. Sound and image quality varies. VHS
A Love for the Land—A look at the last century of farming in
Maine and the farmers who shaped their land from the wooded rocky terrain.
A Part of the Main—Explores the European settlement of Maine.
A Place Apart—Maine as both a vacationland and a frontier removed from
the national mainstream.
Power Lines—Documentary on electrification in Maine. By 1890,
the state’s urban areas were benefiting from the advantages of electricity
while some farms did not get power until the 1940’s.
The Nation’s Playground—During the late 1800s, trains and
steamboats brought visitors to every corner of the state and the tourism
industry rapidly took shape.
They Came by Sea—A look into the development of Maine’s
maritime culture and economy, as shown through its fisheries and the natural resources of the coast and inland waterways.
Trails, Rails and Roads—Documentary on the history of overland
transportation in Maine, and how the state’s people have been connected to
economic markets and each other.
Island Winter
A look at winter on the island of Vinalhaven in Maine’s Penobscot
Bay. Discover how the lobster industry keeps busy during the off
season. Features artists and boatbuilders. 1998. 50 minutes. VHS
The history of granite quarrying on Vinalhaven Island located 15
miles off the Maine coast. Many tons of granite were quarried
from the island’s bedrock, shaped and shipped by schooners,
sloops, and lighters. 2002. 29 minutes. DVD
Knox County on Parade
From Dreamland Sent
Liberty School: The Show
History of the 1893 Maine State Building now in Poland Spring,
Maine. 1995. 25 minutes. . VHS
Video projects from students at the Liberty School in Blue Hill,
Maine. As presented at the Alamo Theatre in Bucksport. 2006.
71 minutes. DVD
The people of a mid-coast Maine community, their workplaces and
recreation. 1940. 43 minutes. color, silent. DVD PERF
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New England Places
Maine Experience Programs 1-13
Maine Experience is an original production of MPBN featuring
historical segments on various aspects of Maine life – it might be
a person, a place, a historical event or even a cultural phenomenon
– that makes the Pine Tree State such a unique place, one that
captures the hearts of residents and visitors alike. DVD
1. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
Voices of the Grange A Morning in Winter, 1895
Norumbega: Maine in the Age of Exploration
and Settlement
Early Maine history, based on maps transferred from a slide tape.
Our Town
2. Neal Dow: Prophet of Prohibition
Norlands Living History Center Seguin
3. Facing the Past: Malaga Island
Maine Village Mills White Gold
Two young mothers-turned activists who launched a grass roots
organization to fight outsiders like Wal-Mart from changing their
beloved Damariscotta, Maine. 2007. 57 minutes. DVD.
4. Mellie Dunham: Fiddling to Fame
Maine Statue Stories Bowdoin Pines
Penobscot River Crossings
A look at the way people have crossed the Penobscot River between Bucksport, Verona and Prospect, Maine by boat, ferry, the
Waldo Hancock Bridge and the Penobscot Narrows Bridge. A
compilation of still and motion pictures with intertitles.
35 minutes. DVD.
5. The Doctors of Osteopathy
Winslow Homer on Prouts Neck Ears to You
6. The Washburns of Livermore, Maine
A Basilica in Maine The Lindbergh Crate Museum
7. Machines in the Garden
Trolleys Fort Knox: The Silent Sentry
Portland, Maine
8. Writing the Changes: May Sarton
Maine’s Covered Bridges Colonial Pemaquid
A narrated video tour of the Portland area. 2001. 12 minutes. VHS
9. Bangor, Maine: Lumber Capital of the World,
Peary’s Necklace The Cribstone Bridge
10. For the Long Haul: Lincoln, Maine
The Way Childhood Should Be: Maine Summer Camps,
A Boat Called Katahdin
Rights and Red: Cold War in New Hampshire
11. Wyman’s Vision
Carpe Diem Old Fort Western
A New Hampshire historical documentary about the Cold War.
12. The Many Lives of Loring
Maine’s First Ship: The Virginia
Louis Sockalexis: Baseball’s First Indian
Road to the Sky
Mount Washington Auto Road. 1991. 25 minutes. VHS
13. Rockland in the Limelight
Last Log Drive Moxie
Maine Barbecue
Seasons of Vermont
A “how to do it” film for outdoor cookery experts staged on a
Maine lake. Includes opera singing rehearsal at Gilbert and Sullivan
Festival Theatre in Monmouth. 1957. 8 minutes. VHS PERF
Celebrating a sense of place and time through beautiful images.
2005. 30 minutes. DVD.
Modern Times in Maine and America
Secrets of the Mt. Washington Hotel
Maine in the early part of the 20th century: tourism, paper industry, hydroelectric power, immigration, agriculture, and reform.
A history of the grand resort in New Hampshire’s Bretton Woods.
Mount Washington Among the Clouds
A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time
A history of the hotels, newspaper and cog railway, 1852-1908.
A look at the island community of Islesford, Maine. 2001.
52 minutes. VHS
New Hampshire Remembered
Seven Mornings in Maine
THE ENTIRE SERIES OF THREE ON ONE DVD!
Host Fritz Wetherbee takes you for a walk down Memory Lane to
visit many of New Hampshire’s treasures that aren’t there anymore.
A photographic montage of mornings in Maine. A quiet meditative piece where land and sea, people and nature connect. For
anyone who loves morning or who loves Maine. 55 minutes. DVD.
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New England Places
Sunrise County, USA
50 cities and towns of Washington County, Maine: logging, fishing,
boating, hunting. 1958. 12 minutes. VHS
Vermont Memories I
This Land: The Story of a Community Land Trust
and a Co-op Called H.O.M.E.
Includes 1930s promotional film Seeing Vermont with Dot and Glen.
Karen Saum’s documentary on Orland, Maine organization. 1983.
Vermont Memories II
Post World War II. Television comes to Vermont and other things.
Time Traveler
Lake Champlain’s past brought to life. Produced by Vermont Public Television for 4th to 6th graders. 1998. 30 minutes. VHS
Vermont Memories III
A variety of curious and amusing stories from Vermont’s history.
The Trees Still Grow
Berlin, New Hampshire, history of a mill town. 1994.
30 minutes. VHS
Vermonters at War: World War II: From Home
Front to Front Lines
Tunbridge Trilogy
Personal memories of Vermonters who lived through the Second
World War. 2001. 120 minutes. VHS
Includes DVD versions of all three of John O’Brien’s Vermont
comedies – Vermont is for Lovers, Man with a Plan, and Nosey
Parker. All three films include additional bonus footage and
commentaries, and yes, Man with a Plan now includes the real-life
story of Fred Tuttle’s rise to political greatness. DVD
Vinalhaven
A portrait of the lobstering community of Vinalhaven, Maine.
Under Quabbin: The Search for Lost Towns
Beneath the billions of gallons of water that flow into homes
across eastern Massachusetts is a story of buried history, scientific
discovery, and individual hopes and dreams destroyed in the name
of progress. Professor Ed Klekowski and the Massachusetts State
Police Underwater Recovery Team go in search of the remains of
four towns permanently erased from the map to make way for the
reservoir 60 years ago. Archival photographs of the towns in their
heyday and the recollections of former residents complement the
haunting underwater footage. 58 minutes. DVD
White Mountain Memories
Documentary on the development of tourism in New Hampshire’s
wilderness. 2002. 60 minutes. VHS
Woodcock Woodlands: Moosehorn National
Wildlife Rerserve
A look at the decline of woodcock due to environmental factors
and loss of young forest habitat. 1987. 29 minutes. DVD
US 1 Aroostook
Wohelo, 1919
Video tour of life along the northernmost beginnings of Route
One. 2001. 55 minutes. DVD
A promotional film of girls’ camp activities on Sebago Lake,
Maine. 10 minutes. DVD
Vermont’s Great Flood
In 1927, Vermont faced the worst natural disaster ever to befall
the rural state. A huge flood swept away houses, roads, farm animals and livelihoods. Over 600 farms and hundreds of businesses
were destroyed. The loss of track and trains made it the worst
disaster in railroad history. From tiny villages to the state capital
in Montpelier, few communities went unscathed. Archival footage
and interviews with survivors bring this historic event to life.
21 min. DVD
World War II: New Hampshire
Interviews, historic news film, photos and radio reports from the
battlefields, it chronicles how a nation, a state and the citizens of
New Hampshire mobilized for war. 1994. 60 minutes. VHS
21
Politics
Oral History
Distinguished Visitors
Jerry Brown Speaks in New Hampshire
An Interview with R. Buckminster Fuller
Architect and visionary; University of Maine Distinguished Visitors From the 1992 presidential campaign. 1992. 28 minutes.
VHS PERF
interview. 1968. 30 minutes. VHS
John F. Kennedy Speech
An Interview with William Kienbusch
Artist; University of Maine Distinguished Visitors interview. 1968.
30 minutes. VHS
Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1963 at University of Maine homecoming. 30 minutes. DVD PERF
An Interview with James Russell Wiggins
Newspaper publisher and diplomat; University of Maine Distinguished Visitors interview. 1968. 30 minutes. VHS
A Downeast Smile-In with Marshall Dodge
Three episodes on one videotape of the
storyteller’s original series, first broadcast
on Maine Educational Television in 1970.
90 minutes. DVD
Muskie vs. Monks: The Final Round
The third debate between Senator Edmund Muskie and Bob
Monks on accountability. 1976. 58 minutes. VHS
Radio Fishtown
One-man radio station in the country battles corporate avarice
and an FCC Goliath who threaten his broadcast license. 1991.
28 minutes. VHS
Margaret Chase Smith
Declaration of intention to run for President, includes Q&A.
How to Eat a Lobster
Maine humorist Alan Smith explains how to catch,
buy, and cook lobsters. He also demonstrates how easy (he says)
it is to pick out all of the meat no matter where you are dining.
An Oral Historian’s Work with Dr. Edward Ives
A “how to” illustrating an oral history project by the founder of
the Maine Folklife Center. 1987. 30 minutes DVD
Student Uprising at Harvard
Amateur footage of student takeover of University Hall during an
SDS demonstration against the war in Vietnam. Richard Rockefeller Collection.1969. 12 minutes. VHS
A Visit to Vermont’s Statehouse
Tour of Vermont’s Statehouse in Montpelier, VT. 2001.
80 minutes. VHS
Maine Survivors Remember the Holocaust
Eight Maine survivors talk about World War II. 1994.
43 minutes VHS
A Visit to Vermont’s Supreme Court
Tour of Vermont’s Supreme Court by a class of 8th grade students.
22
Sports
Student Work
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