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Members Only FREE LOAN PROGRAM Members Only NORTHEAST Videos of Life HISTORIC in New England FILM FREE LOAN PROGRAM Members of Northeast Historic Film may borrow from our FREE loan collection of Videos of Life in New England. You can borrow up to three videos at a time and pay only $5 per shipment for postage. Pay by check, money order, Visa or Master- card using the form on page 27. Also, please provide an alternate selection just in case your first choice is out. To join or borrow videos please call 800.639.1636, email: [email protected] , write Northeast Historic Film, PO Box 900 Bucksport, ME 04416 or to save on postage, stop by our office at 85 Main Street in Bucksport Go to: oldfilm.org and click on “Borrow” to view this catalog online. Public Performance Certain videos are offered as a reference service. Where possible, public perfor- mance rights are included. Please be sure to check each video’s status: PERF means public performance rights are included. Where there is no PERF, the video is for home use only, or face-to-face classroom instruction. We have also indicated PERF videos by bolding the title in the index. No admission may be charged for events where Videos of Life in New England are being shown. If you have a date in mind, call NHF at 1.800.639.1636 to ensure availability.N Available Format Please check the description of each video for available formats. VHS, DVD and mini-DV are most common. Videos for Sale Many videos are available for purchase through NHF. Call for a free catalog of Videos of Life in New England, or check out our website: www.oldfilm.org and click “shop.” Return Instructions The borrower is responsible for return postage to NHF. Videos must be in the mail on their way back to NHF ten days after they are received. Videos may be returned via media rate. H Contents Franco-American Life....................................17 American Americans..........................................3 Geography................................................17-20 Artists and Authors............................................4 Going to the Movies Talks and Summer Boats and the Sea........................................5 & 6 Symposia..........20 Children..............................................................7 Oral History.....................................................21 City Life...............................................................8 Political Discourse..........................................21 Civil War..............................................................8 Sports..............................................................22 Colonial Times....................................................8 Student Work............................................22-23 Country Life...................................................9-11 Technology.....................................................23 Early Film..........................................................11 Television........................................................23 Ecology and Energy..........................................12 Transportation................................................24 Feature Films...............................................13-15 Women’s Topics...............................................24 Feature, Amateur..............................................15 Woods........................................................25-27 Fisheries............................................................16FIndex................................................................28-29 Membership Information....................................30 Click any category above to go directly to the section. 2 American Indians Abenaki of Vermont: Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People A Living Culture Archaeology of the circumpolar region, including coastal New Vermont’s Abenaki families as they make and England. 1987. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS do things that connect them to the traditions of their forebears. A project of the Vermont Folklife Center. 2002. 28 minutes. sound and color. VHS Our Dances Penobscot Indian Island School student project demonstrates tradi- tional and tribal dances with clay animation scenes and live action. 1997. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS Earth Medicine A four part series on the use of plants and trees by Little Tree, now a Vermont resident. 4 VHS videos, 2 episodes per video. 1975. Appx. 240 minutes for the series. black & white and sound. PERF Our Lives in Our Hands Micmac Indian basketmaking cooperative in northern Maine. 1988. 50 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD The First Mainers Passamaquoddy Indians of Pleasant Point and Indian Township. 1975. 22 minutes. sound and color. VHS Penobscot Basketmaker—Barbara Francis The life and basketry work of Barbara Francis, a Penobscot native American who lived on Indian Island, Maine. 2002. 52 minutes. sound and color. 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, Song of the Drum The Petroglyphs of Maine tells the inspiring story of learning the In Maine, the Native Americans began carving images into stone centuries-old basketmaking tradition from ledges beginning about 3,000 years ago. These petroglyphs, prob- her grandmother, and of passing the tra- ably the work of shamans, were used as metaphors of the spirit dition on to her two daughters, Sylvia and quest or to help memorize chants. Because the petroglyphs had Clare. The three women illustrate their powerful spiritual qualities, they were avoided by the uninitiated. commitment to cultural values and how This film presents explanations and ideas about what the images they have served as mentors to others. mean and how they changed as the ideas of the people who made 1999. 28 minutes. sound and color. VHS them changed. 2004. 47 minutes. sound and color. DVD & DVD Invisible This film examines some of the history Wabanaki: A New Dawn of the relations between the white and Cultural survival and revival of Wabanaki the Indian Communities in Maine. of Maine and Maritime Canada. Interviews, Through individual voices, it looks at music, dance. Produced on behalf of Maine underlying reasons for the racism so Indian Tribal-State Commission. Mini-DV deeply embedded in white American format available for student non-commercial culture and how that culture continues reuse only. See http://creativecommons.org/ to shape Native American reality today. licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/for Attribution-Non- DVD includes 83 minutes of supple- Commercial-ShareAlike license information. mental interviews. 2005. 59 minutes. 1995. 28 minutes. color and sound. DVD sound and color. DVD 3 Artists and Authors Bernice Abbott: Maine Masters Project A series of tapes showing Maine artists A View of the Twentieth Century interviewed in their studios discussing their Life and work of one of America’s most significant photographers; she lives and work. VHS lived in Maine into her 90s. 1992. 56 minutes. color and sound VHS * James Fitzgerald. 1997. 57 minutes. $19.95 * Harold Garde. 2002. 27 minutes. $19.95 Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon: * Robert Hamilton. 2007. 27 minutes. $19.95 * Dahlov Ipcar. 2003. 27 minutes. $19.95 A Life Together * Alan Magee. 2002. 27 minutes. $19.95 New Hampshire poets read from their works at home and in the grange hall. 1994. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS * Olive Pierce. 2002. 27 minutes. $19.95 * Children of Iraq (Olive Pierce). 2002. 19 minutes. $19.95 Renascence: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet * William Thon. 2002. 27 minutes. $19.95 Edna St. Vincent Millay, one of Maine’s most famous writers. 1993. 58 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD May Sarton: She Knew a Phoenix Gayleen 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 Vermont painter Gayleen Aiken illustrates days gone by: granite source of her ability to write. 1980. 28 minutes. color and sound. quarries, old country houses. A film by Jay Craven. 1997. 30 min- VHS & DVD PERF utes. color and sound. VHS Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver May Sarton: Woman of Letters Renowned carver from Southwest Harbor, Maine. 1981. 25 min- Videotape of the last interview with writer May Sarton (1912-1995) utes. color and sound. VHS including readings of her works. 1995. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS Grace: A Portrait of Grace DeCarlton Ross Independent filmmaker Huey traces Ross’ silent film and dance On My Own: Traditions of Daisy Turner careers. 1983. 50 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF Recollections, poems and stories of 102 year old African Ameri- Honest Vision: A Portrait of Todd Webb can woman from Grafton, Vermont. 1986. 28 minutes. color and sound. VHS A film by Huey, Portland filmaker. A documentary about the photog- rapher as told through the stories of Webb himself. 1996. 55 minutes. color and sound. VHS Poem in Action Portrait of poet Vincent Ferrini from Gloucester, Massachussetts, In the Spirit of Haystack and his commitment to the unity of art and life. 1990. 58 minutes. Noted craft school in Deer Isle, Maine. 1979. 10 minutes. color and color and sound. VHS sound. VHS & DVD Portrait of George Hardy James Fitzgerald: A Painter’s Journey Examination of relationship of a woodcarver with those who buy Fitzgerald (1899-1971) came from Boston, lived on Monhegan his works. Strong vision of life Down East. Winner of Cine Golden Island, Maine. 1997. 57 minutes. color and sound. VHS Eagle. 1995. 30 minutes. black & white and color, sound. 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