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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 traditional 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 A Life Together * Dahlov Ipcar. 2003. 27 minutes. $19.95 * 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. VHS

MacDowell: An American Artists’ Colony Richard Estes: A Documentary Peterborough, New Hampshire refuge for poets, playwrights, com- posers, painters, sculptors and authors. Over the years, many famous This contemporary photorealist describes his boyhood home artists created some of their greatest work there. In fact, more than in Illinois and his life as an artist in New York and Maine. 1998. 50 MacDowell colonists have won Pulitzer Prizes. This historical 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS documentary provides an inside view of the Colony and how it works. 1996. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS Robert Frost’s New Hampshire Master Smart Woman A tour of the locations which inspired the poet with video adapta- Maine novelist Sarah Orne Jewett (1850-1909) by Jane Morrison. tions of some of his most beloved poems. 2000. 40 minutes. color 1984. 28 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF and sound. VHS 4 Boats and the Sea

American Challenge Alone Against the Atlantic On-board story of seven solo sailors in the Observer Single-handed TransAtlantic Race. 1982. 57 minutes. color and sound. VHS Gus Skoog Boat Builder of Vinalhaven, Maine The building of a 34 foot wooden lobster boat in an island boat shop. 1999. 50 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD Around Cape Horn Captain Irving Johnson aboard the bark Peking. 1929. 37 minutes. black & white and sound. VHS & DVD Jenny’s Island Life This is the story of Nash Island and the woman who continued to love it the most - the remakable and strong-willed Jenny Cirone. “Jenny’s Island Life” offers us a window into Maine’s maritime history and into the spirit Casco Bay of a small downeast coastal village. 2000. 42 Part of the series on the Great Bays of Maine, presented by Down minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD 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. color The Jeremiah O’Brien, Homecoming and sound. VHS Liberty Ship returns to Portland, Maine, where she was built in 1943. 1994. 59 minutes. color and Downeast Lobsterman sound. VHS & DVD Revisiting the 1950’s When Wood Was the Way 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. Launching of the Doris Hamlin Wooden bouys and traps, hand woven nets and carved wooden pegs Launching of four-masted schooner with Boston as home port. were lobstering tools of bygone times that come back to life in this Mini-DV format available for student non-commercial reuse only. video. 2006. 30 minutes. color and sound. DVD See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license information. 1919. 4 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS and mini-DV. The Friendship Sloop Legendary Lighthouses: A look at two Maine boatbuilders dedicated to North Atlantic and Maine preserving the classic Friendship Sloop: one us- A traveler’s guide to lighthouses in New England. 1998. ing the old craft of shaping wood by hand, the 120 minutes. color and sound. VHS other using modern materials. 1986. 28 minutes. color and sound. VHS Lighthouses of Maine—A Journey Through Time Stories about seventy Maine lighthouses and the people who lived in them. 2003. 55 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD

Gloucester’s Adventure Light Spirit: Lighthouses of the Maine Coast Documentary about the schooner Adven- Looks at each of the sixty-plus lighthouses that grace the coast of ture, the last American dory-trawler. 2002. 58 Maine, with Jack Perkins, host of A&E’s Biography. 1997. minutes. color and black & white, sound. VHS & DVD 54 minutes. color and sound. VHS

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Maine Lighthouses The Last Watch South: Ernest Shackleton and This documentary video brings history alive. From Portland Head the Endurance Expedition Light commissioned by George Washington to the present day Pemaquid Point Light museum. You will experience the sights and Restored by the National Film and Television Archive of the Brit- sounds of a special life and a special beauty. 1991. 30 minutes. color ish Film Institute using original nitrate materials, surviving prints and sound. VHS and original glass slides. Restored edition 1988. 88 minutes. black & white, silent with music. VHS Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Maine Field guide to whales and seals. The Allied Whale Program at Col- lege of the Atlantic. 1991. 24 minutes. color and sound. VHS Tales of Wood and Water Visits to boat builders and sailors up and down the coast of Maine. 1991. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS New England’s Great River The Connecticut River was New England’s Trap Day first highway, the graceful path along which European settlers came north to build Ver- A documentary about the annual midwinter ritual of setting lobster mont’s early farms, villages and industries. traps off the coast of Maine. 1977. 27 minutes. color and sound. Hosted by storyteller and writer Willem VHS 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 Ver- Tugboat mont’s Old Constitution House; and see Documentary about the Clyde B. Holmes, the many other sites along the river, including last commercially-operated steam screw tug- historic covered bridges. A Vermont Public Television production. boat. 1978. 14 minutes. color and sound. VHS 2003. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD

Outward Bound A look at the Maine version of the adventure course. 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. color and sound. VHS The Ways at Wallace and Sons and The Bank Dory Penobscot Bay Footage of boatbuilding seafaring and Explores the historic Maine islands, harbors and landmarks. 1994. maritime skills. 1984. 58 minutes. color and 55 minutes. color and sound. VHS sound. VHS

Sea Captain’s Port A portrait of Searsport, Maine, located on the north end of Penob- scot Bay. A guided history of Searsport and the stories of its sea Yachting in the 30’s captains. 1997. 45 minutes. color and sound. VHS Compilation of J Boats footage from various sources. 1978. 14 minutes. color and sound. VHS www.oldfilm.org

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The Maple Surgaring Story Children’s video with teacher workbook. 1989. 28 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF Big Horse Two horses, Spike and Smitty, talk about their lives as working animals. 1995. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD On Board the Morgan America’s Last Wooden Whaler Whaling--archival photographs, rare film footage of whaling. 1992. 23 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS

Children of the North Lights Children’s book creators Ingri and Edgar d’Aulaire. 1976. 20 min- Paul Bunyan utes. color and sound. VHS The tall tale of the logging exploits of the hero and his blue ox Babe. 1990. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS Homer Price Stories Robert McCloskey’s tales: The Doughnuts and The Case of the Cosmic Comic. 1983. 52 minutes. color and sound. VHS Paul Bunyan, Favorite Stories Disney animated version of the logging legend as they cut a path across America. Also includes short story Little Hiawatha 1960. 27 Let’s Go to the Farm with minutes. color and sound. VHS Mac Parker The Bessette family farm, Vermont, in the four seasons. 1994. 60 minutes. color and sound.VHS

Robert McCloskey Library Mac Parker’s Farm Stories for Five beloved stories with McCloskey’s Families illustrations: Lentil, Make Way for Vermont story teller Mac Parker tells his Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal, Time favorite stories. Footage includes Shel- of Wonder, Burt Dow: Deep-Water burne Farms and Elgin Sring Farm. Stories Man, and Getting to Know Robert include: Young One, What do peepers Talk About?, The Story of Emma McCloskey. 1990. 58 minutes. color Perkins, Right of Way, Pig Poem, Father and Son, and Night and Sleep. and sound. VHS 1999. 60 minutes. color and sound.VHS

To request a loan call NHF at The White Heron 800.639.1636 or send us an A young girl’s choice between friendship and a creature she loves. email : [email protected] Story by Sarah Orne Jewett. 1989. 26 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD

7 City Life Civil War

Meade of Gettysburg Anchor of the Soul General George Gordon Meade reluctantly took command of the Army of the Potomac only African American history in northern New three days before the Battle of Gettysburg. Filled England through the story of a Portland with personal accounts and period music this church. 1994. 60 minutes. color and sound. video takes an intimate look at the controversial VHS & DVD and often missunderstood man who handed Con- federate General Robert E. Lee his first defeat. 1993. 40 minutes. color and sound. VHS Bill Wilson Story Docudrama on juvenile delinquency made for Portland, Maine social service agencies by James Petrie. 1952. 14 minutes. black & Noble Hearts Civil War Vermont white, sound. VHS PERF At Gettysberg, the Wilderness and Cedar Can I Get There From Here? Creek, Vermont regiments were called upon to fight the Civil War. Because the Vermont- Urban youth, families, work, homelessness in Portland, Maine. ers fiercly held their ground, Generals Meade, 1981. 29 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF Hancock, Sheridan, and Sedgwick placed them in the lead while at home, mothers and Leather Soul Working for a Life in a Factory Town wifes organized Soldier’s Aid Societies and Documentary about the leather shops and factories in Peabody, sewed socks, quilts, and under-drawers for the Massachusetts. Narrated by Studs Terkel.1991. 45 minutes. color men. Mills hummed with the manufacture of and sound. VHS woolen blankets and uniforms and large farms shipped apples, potatoes and hay to support the war effort. 2005. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD 24 Hours Fire fighting in Portland, Maine, with memorable narration. Produced by Earle Fenderson. 1963. 27 Colonial Times minutes. black & white, sound. VHS & DVD PERF A Little Rebellion Now and Then Constitutional Convention of 1787; Massachusetts farmers uprising Joshua Chamberlain in Shays Rebellion. Includes section on Maine. 1986. 30 minutes. and the 20th Maine color and sound. VHS Maine Civil War hero: Fredericksburg, Gettys- burg, Appomattox. 1994. 55 minutes. black & The Other Boston Tea Party white and color, sound. VHS & DVD Dramatization of the issues confronted by Samuel Adams and Colonial American citizens. Adapted from the original stage production. 1989. 59 minutes. color and sound. VHS

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Aroostook County, 1920’s Agriculture--potato growing with horse power. Downtown Presque Conversations with Farmers Isle, Maine. Aroostook Valley Railroad electric trolley. Mini-DV format Sustainable agriculture and Maine’s family farms. 2000. 56 minutes. available for student non-commercial reuse only. See the http://cre- color and sound. VHS & DVD ativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution-NonCom- mercial-ShareAlike license information 1928. 20 minutes. black & white Down East Dairyland with music. VHS, mini-DV & DVD PERF Produced by the Maine Dept. of Agriculture. 1972. 14 minutes. Barns: Legacy of Wood and Stone color and sound. VHS PERF Tour some of Vermont’s most picturesque barns. From humble structures to magnificent The Farming Project Troubled Harvest complexes, from a towering behemoth to a 10- Documentary on Vermont family farms in 4 parts: Part I:The sided dairy barn still in use. View the weather- People, Part II: The Market, Part III: The Tools and Part IV:The vanes, cupolas, haymows and silos that make Future. 1994. 120 minutes. color and sound. VHS each barn unique. See how barns evolved from the 1800s when railroads and industrialization reached rural areas. 2002. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD Giant Horses Draft horses and their teamsters. 1993. 30 minutes. Ben’s Mill color and sound. VHS & DVD A documentary about a Vermont water-powered mill by NHF members Michel Chalufour and John Karol. 1980. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS Hap Collins of South Blue Hill, Maine A Century of Summers Jeff Titon’s oral history interview with field footage of a lobster- The impact of a summer colony on a small man, painter and poet. 1989. 56 minutes. color and sound. VHS & Maine coastal community by Hancock native and DVD NHF member Sandy Phippen. 1987. 45 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS & DVD Hello, New Hampshire PERF Documentary about the 1999 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, with its spotlight on New Hampshire. 2000. 27 minutes. color and Change and Challenge sound. VHS An Orton Family Foundation Video: Tools for Community Action. Contains four segments: Vermonters at Work, Vermont’s Working A History of Kittery Landscape, Industrious Vermont and Vermont Patterns of Settle- Learn about Maine’s oldest incorporated town from the early estab- ment. 1999. 93 minutes. color and sound. VHS lishment of the shipbuilding industry to Kittery Point and the Isles Cherryfield, 1938 of Shoals. 1999. 25 minutes. color and sound. VHS A terrific home movie about rural spring. Mini- Ice Harvesting Sampler DV format available for student non-commercial Five short films showing a near-forgotten New reuse only. See the http://creativecommons. England industry. Narration by Philip C. Whit- org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution- ney explains process and tools. Mini-DV format NonCommercial-ShareAlike license information. available for student non-commercial reuse 1938. 6 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS & only. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ PERF by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution-NonCommer- cial-ShareAlike license information. 1994. 26 Closing the Circle The Alewife Run in Damariscotta Mills minutes. color and black & white, sound. VHS, This documentary explores the relationship between the people mini-DV & DVD PERF of a small Maine village, Damariscotta Mills, and the harvest of alewives as it evlvolves over time. The film captures the 2004 arrival of thousands of alewives and reflects on the influence of their mi- In Days Gone By Vermont Country Ways grations on local heritage, culture, and survival during the last two Vermonters share memories of early 20th century rural life. 2000. centuries. 2005. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD 9 Country Life

Keeping the Tradition Alive One Town’s Story Movie Queen, Middlebury Five Lincoln, Massachusetts residents, calling themselves The Farm A pretend movie queen visits her hometown in Middlebury, Vermont. Team, came together to produce this documentary about the rural The “Movie Queen plot was a theme intended to showoff local sites, character of the town and its farming heritage. 2000. 45 minutes. shops, and townspeople and was duplicated in other towns throughout color and sound. VHS New England. 1939. 32 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS

L.L Bean Biography Movie Queen, Newport The story of Leon Leonwood Bean, founder of the famous outdoor A pretend movie queen visits her hometown in Newport, Maine. The outfitter. 2001. color and sound. VHS & DVD parade. Visits to shops, Oxbow Cabins. The kidnap, and rescue by hero on bicycle. 1936. 35 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS Land for Learning Justin Morill and America’s Land Grant Colleges & Universities My Grandparents Had a Hotel A “practical education” in agriculture and engineering, made possible Documentary using family film by Canadian Karen Shopsowitz. To by a Vermont senator. 1998. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS purchase, call Filmmakers Library, 212 808-4980. 1989. 26 minutes.

Lobstertown Nature’s Blueberryland For home or classroom viewing only. Community life and lobstering Maine’s harvesting of wild blueberries. 1975. 13 minutes. in Corea, Maine, 1947. 27 minutes. black & white, sound. DVD color and sound. VHS PERF

The Long Trail A Footpath in the Wilderness Our Farmers, Eight Years Later The Farming Project A history of Vermont’s Long Trail, the oldest hiking trail in A followup to 1992’s Troubled Harvest, this video revisits the original six America. 2001. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS farm families in the Farming Project to explore what, if anything, has changed with the state of Vermont agriculture. 2000. 60 minutes. color Maine Summer Festival and sound. VHS The role of agricultural products in summer fairs. 1970. 12 minutes. Paris, 1929 color and sound. VHS PERF Home movies of the Wright family in Paris, Maine, haying, Movie Queen, Bar Harbor mowing, picnics. Mini-DV format available for student noncommercial reuse only. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ A pretend movie queen visits her hometown in Bar Harbor, Maine. by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license The “Movie Queen” plot was a theme intended to show off local sites information. 1929. 80 minutes. VHS PERF and shops and was duplicated in other towns throughout New Eng- land. 1936. 24 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS Part-Time Farmer Movie Queen 2000, Bucksport Promotes agriculture as an after-hours pursuit. 1975. 17 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF 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. black & white, silent with music. Potato Eaters VHS & DVD Educational film about the history of the potato. 1967. 15 minutes. color and sound. VHS Movie Queen, Lincoln A pretend movie queen visits her hometown in Lincoln, Maine. Parade, Rural Free Delivery 1-3, 4-6 & 7-10 followed by visit to garage, lake, playtime, electric store, bus arrives at “How to” series on gardening, crafts, home decorating. Garden hotel. Kidnap drama. 1936. 37 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS design, spring planting, soap making, sugaring; coldframe, tomato planting, birdhouses, carving; stenciling, wall murals, salvage ware- Movie Queen, Lubec houses, country stores. 1998. 90 minutes. black & white and color, A pretend movie queen visits her home town in Down East Maine. sound. VHS Mini-DV format available for student non-commercial reuse only. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution- Sins of Our Mothers NonCommercial-ShareAlike license information. 1936. 28 minutes. Girl who went to the Massachusetts textile mills from Fayette, black & white, silent. VHS Maine. 1989. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF 10 Country Life Just Maine Folks Swanton Community Video A bawdy hayseed one-reeler. Poor image quality. 1913. 8 minutes. An Orton Family Foundation Video: Tools for Community Action. black & white, silent. VHS PERF Swanton, Vermont. 2001. 12 minutes. color and sound. VHS The Knight of the Pines An Unlikely Cathedral Another North Woods adventure by Maine writer Holman Day. 1920. 20 Moosilauke, Dartmouth and the Ravine Camp 1909-1939. 1999. minutes. color and sound. black & white, silent. VHS & DVD PERF 31 minutes. color and sound. VHS

Words from Millie’s Garden Making of an American The Story of Pettengill Farm An Italian immigrant realizes the importance Millie Pettengill lived in an historic house of learning English. Connecticut Dept. of overlooking the Harraseeket River in Freeport, Americanization. 1920. 14 minutes. black & Maine for 100 years. 2003. 50 minutes. color white, silent. VHS & DVD and sound. VHS & DVD

My Lady O’ the Pines Early Film A two-reel North Woods drama by movie writer Holman Day, starring Mary Astor. 1921. 26 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS & DVD

The Sailor’s Sacrifice All But Forgotten Short romance drama by Vitagraph Company shot in Southern Documentary on the Holman Day film com- Maine. A sailor leaves his family to go to sea and is thought lost pany (1920-1921) in Maine; by Everett Foster. when his boat sinks. The family loses its home and the young 1978. 30 minutes. black & white and color, woman has to dig clams with her dog Jean. 1909. 20 minutes. black sound. VHS & DVD PERF & white, music. VHS Shadows Brother of the Bear 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 Man with a temper befriends a bear, learns to control his temper England). 1922. 68 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS and wins the daughter of the mill owner and a job running the saw- mill. A Holman Day Production. 1921. black & white, silent. DVD The Simp and the Sophomores Cupid, Registered Guide Oliver Hardy plays Prof. Arm-strong. The earliest surviving film with Hardy. Found by NHF. 1915. 14 minutes. black & white, A two-reel North Woods comedy by Maine writer Holman Day sound. VHS 1921. 20 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS & DVD PERF A Vermont Romance Earliest Maine Films The Vermont Progressive Party’s moral tale about an orphaned Lobstering, trout fishing, logging, canoeing on country girl forced to take factory work in town. 1916. 47 minutes. Moosehead Lake, and potato growing, from 1901 black & white, silent. VHS to 1920. Mini-DV format available for student noncommercial reuse only. See http://creativecom- Way Down East mons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike license information. D.W. Griffith directs Lillian Gish as a poor New Englander who visits 1901. 44 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS & her wealthy cousins, falls in love with Richard Barthelmess, and faces a DVD PERF scandalous past. 1920. 149 minutes. black & white, music. VHS

Earliest Massachusetts Films Within Our Gates Eighteen film segments dating from 1897 to 1906 covering City The 1993 Library of Congress intertitle restoration of Oscar Mi- Scenes, Transportation, Military/Political footage, Work, Recreation cheaux’s Within Our Gates (1919), the earliest surviving feature and Entertainment. 2006. 60 minutes. black & white and color, directed by an African American. 1997. 79 minutes. black & white, silent and sound. VHS & DVD music. VHS 11 Ecology and Energy

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Her 1963 book about pesticides helped raise ecological conscious- Give gift memberships ness. 1993. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS to family & friends. Helen Nearing Conscious Living/Conscious Dying This video examines the lives and deaths of Maine authors Helen Nearing and her husband, Scott, who were best known for their Join online: book about homesteading practices called Living the Good Life. More www.oldfilm.org than a biography, this hour-long documentary looks at the Near- ings’ commitment to self-sufficiency and voluntary simplicity and or call 800.639.1636 unveils the spiritual philosophy that underlay their lives and work. 2000. 56 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD

Voices from Maine Is economics incompatible with nature? Discussion of development versus quality of life. Scratched.. 1970. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS

Who has Seen the Wind? Documentary about the study of wind with section on New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington. 2000. 57 minutes. color and sound. VHS

Wyman Station Central Maine Power film on the construction of Wyman Station on the Kennebec River, with Daggettville, the workers’ town. 1928- 1930. 1928. 30 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS & DVD PERF

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12 Feature Films

Affliction The Gazebo Set in a small New England community. James Coburn, Nick Nolte star. 1997. 20 minutes. color and sound. VHS Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds star in a comedy about a murder plot. 1959. 100 minutes. black & white, sound. 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 Bing Crosby with orphans in Boston. 1951. 114 minutes. black & York, Massachusetts. 1969. 101 minutes. color and sound. VHS white, sound. VHS The House of the Seven Gables All the Brothers Were Valiant From Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel. 1941. 89 minutes. black & Whaling family in the south seas, based on a story by Ben Ames Wil- white, sound. VHS liams. 1953. 96 minutes. color and sound. VHS I Married a Witch Bed and Breakfast Directed by Rene Clair, Starring Fredric March, and Veronica Lake Colleen Dewhusrst carries this shot-in-Maine film about three women, with co-stars Susan Hayward and Cecil Kellaway. 1942. 77 minutes. their B&B, and Roger Moore, who washed ashore. 1992. 96 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS color and sound. VHS The Inkwell Before and After Matty Rich directs coming of age in African American summer com- Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson, in the story of a small Massachussetts munity on Martha’s Vineyard in the 1970s. 1994. 112 minutes. color community. 1997. 108 minutes. color and sound. VHS and sound. VHS Bush Pilot Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn A “romantic aerial melodrama,” one of the first feature films made in Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. 1942. 101 minutes. black & white, Toronto with scenes shot on location in the Muskoka Lakes district. sound. VHS 1946. 63 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS Jazz on a Summer’s Day Desire Under the Elms Bert Stern’s 1958 Newport Jazz Festival that included performances Eugene O’Neill’s play, starring Tony Perkins as the good son, and by Louis Armstrong, Anita O’Day, Thelonius Monk, Chuck Berry, Sophia Loren as his love, an Italian waitress who married his tough Mahalia Jackson and Dinah Washington. America’s Cup yachting on old dad to acquire the farm. 1957. 111 minutes. black & white, sound. the edges. 1958. 84 minutes. color and sound. VHS VHS Evangeline Leave Her to Heaven (restored edition)The Acadian experience interpreted by Longfel- Ben Ames Williams’ story of the jealous Ellen Berendt (Gene Tier- low and Hollywood, starring Dolores Del Rio. Opening reels silent, ney), who drowns her young brother-in-law in Deer Lake, Maine. the rest has music from original discs -- preserved by UCLA. 1929. Vincent Price plays the Sussex County district attorney. 1945. 111 87 minutes. tinted with music. VHS & DVD minutes. color and sound. VHS Fear Strikes Out Long Day’s Journey Into Night Red Sox tale, based on a true story. Anthony Perkins gives a stun- Sidney Lumet directs Eugene O’Neill’s drama about his family in ning performance as Jimmy Piersall. 1957. 100 minutes. black & New London, Connecticut. With Katharine Hepburn and Jason white, sound. VHS Robards. 1962. 174 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS

Feed Lost Boundaries Produced by Louis de Rochemont. An African-American physi- Campaigning in the New Hampshire primary with Jerry Brown, Pat cian’s experiences with discrimination in the south and in New Buchanan, George Bush and Bill & Hillary Clinton. By Kevin Raf- Hampshire. 1949. 99 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS ferty & James Ridgeway. 1992. 76 minutes. color and sound. VHS

Funny Farm Malice Chevy Chase moves to the country in upstate New York to “get Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, and Bill Pullman star in a suspense away from it all.” 1988. 101 minutes. color and sound. VHS film set in a New England College. 1993. 107 minutes. color and sound. VHS 13 Feature Films

Man with a Plan Fred Tuttle, a retired Vermont dairy farmer, runs for Congress in this Rachel, Rachel comedy by John O’Brien. 1996. 90 minutes. color and sound. VHS & Elementary school teacher Joanne Woodward lives with her mean DVD mother over the funeral parlor in a small New England town. Directed by Paul Newman. 1968. 102 minutes. color and sound. VHS A Midwife’s Tale Martha Ballard’s 18th century journals of Maine life, a period drama Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and a documentary of historian Laurel Ulrich’s work, by writer- Shirley Temple in the Kate Douglas Wiggin story. 1938. 81 minutes. producer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and director Richard Rogers. 1996. black & white, sound. VHS 89 minutes. color and sound. VHS Second Sight Myth of Fingerprints Comedy starring Bronson Pinchot and John Larroquette. 1989. 85 Blythe Danner, Julianne Moore, Roy Scheider and Noah Wyle head up minutes. color and sound. VHS an incredible ensemble cast in this bittersweet comedy about a family reunion that goes awry. 1997. 91 minutes. color and sound. VHS The Seventh Day Romantic comedy places a group of New Yorkers in a coastal Nosey Parker Maine village and has them work out their cultural differences. A couple from suburbia move to rural Vermont. 2003. color and Filmed in New Harbor and Pemaquid, Maine. 1922. 65 minutes. sound. VHS & DVD black & white with music. VHS & DVD

Old Ironsides Signs of Life With Kathy Barnes and Beau Bridges, shot around Deer Isle, Maine: Directed by James Cruze and written by Dorothy Arzner. The seafar- about the demise of a boat building company. Produced by Down ing life, the grand old vessel. Based on 1830 poem by Oliver Wendell East Films. 1989. 94 minutes. color and sound. VHS Holmes. 1926. 111 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS The Silent Enemy Old Man Dogs Drama shot on location in winter, starring Penobscot Indian Molly Spotted Elk. 1930. 121 minutes. black & white with music. 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. color and sound. VHS Simon Birch A film set in fictional Gravestown, Maine stars Ian Michael Smith. One Crazy Summer Filmed in Toronto and Nova Scotia. 1999. 114 minutes. color and sound. VHS Set in Nantucket-with Demi Moore. 1986. 89 minutes. color and sound. VHS Stella Dallas Out of the fictional Milhampton, Mass., the wonderful Stella (Barbara Parrish Stanwyck) and her daughter Laurel (Anne Shirley). 1937. 106 minutes. Troy Donahue stars in a drama about control of the tobacco business black & white, sound. VHS in Connecticut. 1961. 138 minutes. color and sound. VHS A Stolen Life Peyton Place With Bette Davis as twins (good and evil, of course), with an island Grace Metalious’s novel of a small scandal-ridden New England town. refuge-and handsome but naïve lighthouse keeper Glenn Ford. Filmed in Camden, Maine. 1957. 157 minutes. color and sound. VHS 1946. 110 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS

Portrait of Jennie Strange Interlude Joseph Cotten stars in story of a New York artist and Jennie (Jenni- Eugene O’Neill’s drama brought to the screen with voiceover fer Jones) his enigmatic muse. The film has been digitally mastered. thoughts from Norma Shearer and Clark Gable. 1932. 89 minutes. 1948. 86 minutes. black & white, color and sound. VHS black & white, sound. VHS

Prophecy The Stranger Horror: couple investigates terrifying eco-events in Maine. 1988. Orson Welles directs and stars as a Nazi in a drama taking place in a 102 minutes. color and sound. VHS New England viillage. 1946. 95 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS 14 Feature Films

A Stranger in the Kingdom Way Back Home The story of a small Vermont town where conflicts arise when a Maine native (radio star) Phillips Lord’s only film. Also stars Bette black former Army chaplain arrives arrives as the town’s new pas- Davis. 1931. 81 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS tor and finds himself charged with adultery and murder. 1998. 95 minutes. black & white, sound. $19.95 VHS Where the River Flows North Shot on location in Vermont and New Hampshire, directed by Jay A Summer Place Craven. Woodsman (Rip Torn) and his American Indian compan- ion (Tantoo Cardinal) in a story about timberland and water power. Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue at Pine Island, Maine. Remember 1994. 111 minutes. color and sound. VHS the music? 1959. 130 minutes. color and sound. VHS With Honors Summer Stock A homeless man teaches a group of Harvard students some of Judy Garland and Gene Kelly singing songs by Harold Arlen in the life’s important lessons. With Joe Pesci, Brendan Fraser. 1994. 104 sticks. 1950. 120 minutes. color and sound. VHS minutes. color and sound. VHS Young People Theodora Goes Wild Vaudeville stars Shirley Temple and adoptive parents Jack Oakie Theodora Lynne, played by Irene Dunne, wrote a scandalous novel in and Charlotte Greenwood retire to the hostile little town of Ston- a small Connecticut town--and went to New York. 1936. 94 minutes. efield. Appointed one-man chamber of commerce as a joke, Oakie black & white, sound. VHS eventually wins the town over to a vision of the future. 1940. 78 minutes. colorized video, sound. VHS Timothy’s Quest Kate Douglas Wiggin’s story of two orphans in the Maine countryside. Scenes of horse-drawn wagons, shoeing oxen, and other rural Film, Amateur activities. 1922. 90 minutes. black & white with music. VHS & DVD

To Die For Archie Stewart Collection Archie Stewart was one of the earliest amateur filmmakers to use The Story of a woman who has always dreamed of being on TV sound on his home movies. He lived in Newburgh, New York, and and what lengths she’ll go to in order to make that dream come true. Grand Lake Stream, Maine. Includes an automobile trip crossing into Staring Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, and Joaquin Phoenix. 1996. 102 Maine and visiting LL Bean to purchase supplies for a hunting trip. minutes. color and sound. VHS 1939. 28 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS and mini-DV The Trouble with Harry Lipstick Alfred Hitchcock’s weird comedy, set in Vermont, starring Shirley MacLaine and John Forsythe. 1955. 100 minutes. color and sound. Experimental Super 8 film. [NOTE: contains nudity and adult subject VHS matter.] 1974. 5 minutes. color and silent. VHS Two Sisters from Boston Los Dos Mundos de Angelita/ Kathryn Grayson and June Allyson play two sisters from Boston The Two Worlds of Angelita who go to New York in a humorous turn-of-the-century musical. 1946. 112 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS A Puerto Rican family’s move to the Lower East Side of New York. 1982. 73 minutes. black & white and color, silent. VHS Vermont is for Lovers Two New Yorkers decide to celebrate their upcoming nuptials in Miss Olympia the lovely New England countryside -- but the peace and quiet Amateur comic drama. Miss Olympia writes and offers her skills to leaves them more stressed-out than ever. 1992. 88 minutes. color the Town Improvement Committee for a day. An imposter takes ad- and sound. $19.95 DVD vantage of her late arrival and steps in only to be exposed when the real Miss Olympia shows up. 1939. 19 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS

The Viking Uncle Blaine Early Canadian sound feature about two rival sealers, filmed on Life on a cattle ranch in the American West. By Jane Morrison. 1974. location. 1931. 90 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS 12 minutes. color and silent. VHS 15 Fisheries

Basic Net Mending The Old Sardine Village Museum Series How to repair fish nets. 1951. 16 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF Six videotapes (1 & 2, 7 & 8, 11 & 12) on Maine sardine packing and life of the coast. Subjects in this volume: Hole & Cap Can Fence in the Water Shop, Stewart’s Blueberrys, Blacksmith Shop, Eastern Steam Ship, Dock, Reir Barn. 1994. Each video 105 to 120 minutes. color and Weir fishing for herring in Penobscot Bay, Maine, by independent film- sound. VHS Edited one video version VHS maker Peg Dice. 1980. 45 minutes. color and sound. VHS Finest Kind A small Maine fishing community fighting to continue making a living from the sea. 1975. 28 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD Our Fishing Heritage Grand Banks dory fishing, stop-seining mackerel and herring, and lobstering. 1996. 60 Fishing for the Future minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS & DVD Documentary exploring questions about fisheries management and ecological trends in commercial fishing. 2001. 56 minutes. color and sound. VHS

It’s the Maine Sardine A Tale of Two Fisheries Catching, packing and eating Eastport fish. Fishermen tell a tale of two fisheries in Maine. 1997. 16 minutes. 1949. 16 minutes. color and sound. VHS & color and sound. VHS DVD PERF Tuna Fishing off Portland Harbor, Maine Off-shore fishing with a Maine sea and shore warden ca. 1930. 10 Live Lobster: Maine Lobsterman minutes. black & white, silent with intertitles. VHS PERF Phil Alley shows how he catches lobsters, what it eats and about the lobster’s annual cycle. By Peg Dice. 1976. 24 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF Turn of the Tide Drama about formation of a lobster cooperative; from the Vinal- Maine’s Harvesters of the Sea haven Historical Society. 1943. 48 minutes. color and sound. VHS Fisheries including shrimp, cod, and lobster. Mini-DV format available for student non-commercial reuse only. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution-NonCom- Under Water Out of Sight An Ecosystem Case Study mercial-ShareAlike license information. 1968. 28 minutes. color and sound. VHSm mini-DV, DVD PERF Underwater marine communities are changing as a result of growing fishing pressures. Study of the Gulf of Maine ecosystem. Produced The Maine Lobster by Mainewatch Institute. 1996. 15 minutes. color and sound. VHS Lobster fisheries and consumption with unusual footage including the assembly of lobster TV dinners. Mini-DV format available for student non-commercial reuse only. See http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike license information. 1955. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS, mini-DV. PERF Attention educators and students! Maine Marine Worm Industry Many titles in the Videos of Life in New England A documentary about the Maine Bait Company and the process free loan program can be used in creating iMovie of digging for worms, washing and packaging them, and shipping productions. If you’d like to use our footage in them by rail or truck. Mini-DV format available for student non- classroom projects call 1.800.639.1636. commercial reuse only. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license information. 1941. 45 minutes. color, silent. VHS, mini-DV 16 Franco-American Life

Bonsoir Mes Amis French-Canadians to New England at the turn of the century. Two puppets comment on the program after it is over. Portrait of two of Maine’s finest traditional Franco-American musicians. 1990. 46 minutes. * Lowell Mills—Irene Simoneau, Franco-American historian on the role of women in the mills. Roger Paradis of Fort Kent, Maine, about color and sound. VHS Franco-American folklore and music. * Organizers—Franco-American organizers and their success at motivating people to action. “Assimilo,” a spoof exploring Franco- Emigration: A Franco-American Experience American stereotypes. Traces French immigration to North America and documents the * Potato Harvest—Northern Maine. Interview and poetry reading by history and culture of the Franco-American community in New Norm Dube in Bedford, NH. England. 1981. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF * Social Clubs—Old social clubs of Lewiston, Maine; the drinking establishments of Madawaska, Maine. A portion of a slide presenta- Evangeline’s Quest tion from New Hampshire, “I Too, Am New Hampshire.” Documentary examines the mythology of Evangeline and its relation * St. Mary’s Hospital—St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston, Maine--roots to Acadian history. 1996. 53 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF in the early 1800s. Teachers from New Hampshire on the Canadian American Institute. * Porte Ouverte Sur Les Arts—Visits with artists and perform- Franco-Americans: We Remember ers from around Maine and New England including Julien Olivier, Documentary on the history and cultural traditions of Franco-Ameri- storyteller, Gilbert Roy, artist, Buck McHenry, wood sculptor, Josee can life. 1999. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF Vachone, singer. *Recontre de Peuples Francophone, Quebec—Quebec City, Reflets et Lumiere Canada, 1980. Three seasons of a television series on Franco-American culture produced by the Maine Public Broadcasting Newtwork (MPBN). Together in Time The programs aired from 1979 to 1981. Sound and image quality A Story of New England Contra Music and Dance varies. VHS PERF Celtic and French Canadian music traditions combined in New * Acadian Villages, Acadian History—Interview with Guy England contra dance music. 2001. 27 minutes. color and sound. Dubay of Madawaska, Maine. Visits to the Acadian Village near VHS & DVD Van Buren, Maine, and le Village Acadien in Carquet, New Bruns- wick, Canada. A short visit to Quebec City. * Assimilation—Interviews with Franco-Americans, young and Waking up French (Reveil) old, about growing up in an authoritarian, closed and rigid society. A powerful documentary film that explores the struggle for cultural Among matters discussed: the effects of being surrounded by an survival among the French-Canadian, Franco-American communi- English-speaking society with different values, customs and tradi- ties of New England. The film traces the French heritage beginning tions. From a television series on Franco-American culture. with immigration from Canadian provinces of Quebec and Acadia * Bilingualism, Fact and Fiction—Interviews with Franco- through the persecution by Ku Klux Klan and language loss, to Americans, young and old, about facts and fictions of being cultural renaissance and heritage preservation. 2006. 81 minutes. bilingual in a monolingual atmosphere. An interview with Antonine color and sound. VHS & DVD Maillet, Acadian author and recipient of top honors for her many novels about Acadian life. * Bilingualism, Church Reform—MPBM Series on Franco- American Culture, Program 12 Geography * The Catholic Church—Amedee Proulx, Auxiliary Bishop of Portland, Maine, and Raymond LaGasse, a married priest from Assignment in Aroostook Concord, NH. An interview about Holyoke, Mass. Loring Air Force Base in northern Maine closed in 1994. This is a look * The Community, Old Town—Eugene Paradis recalls his at its heyday: Mom at home, the sergeant at work, the family at play. earlier years in Old Town, Maine, when life was simpler and run by 1956. 27 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF bells, whistles and horns. Visits with other Old Town residents who speak of their lives today. * Festivals—Franco-American festivals in Lewiston, Maine; Low- Bayside ell, Mass.; Old Town, Maine. Franco-American studies in Waterville, A historical and current portrait of the town of Bayside, on the Maine. Arts and crafts fair in Manchester, NH. coast of Maine. 1996. 28 minutes. color and sound. VHS * Immigration...the Journey—Immigration movement of 17 Geography

Castine Great Cranberry Island A video about the coastal town of Castine, Maine. Amateur film by Robert Browning of a young boy on Cranberry 2004. 58 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD Isles, Maine, learning about island life. 1930. 60 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS PERF

History is Always Being Made at Bucksport History of Champion International paper mill and the town. 1995. Changing Landscapes: Vermont’s Past Century 23 minutes. color and sound. VHS Vermont during the 1900’s. 1999. 60 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS 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. Eastport 2001. 31 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS A Video postcard of Eastport, Maine, the easternmost city in the United Home, the Story of Maine: States. 1999. 55 minutes. color and Two seasons of a television series on Maine culture produced by the sound. VHS Maine Public Broadcasting Newtwork (MPBN). 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. Eight Ways to Fish * A Part of the Main—Explores the European settlement of Maine . A video about the community of Deer Isle in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. 2003. 60 minutes. color * A Place Apart—Maine as both a vacationland and a frontier re- and sound. VHS & DVD moved from the national mainstream. * Power Lines—Documentary on electrification in Maine. By 1890, the state’s urban areas were benefiting from the advantages of electric- ity while some farms did not get power until the 1940’s. Experience Portland Past * The Nation’s Playground—During the late 1800s, trains and 400 years in the history of Portland, Maine. 2003. 70 minutes. steamboats brought visitors to every corner of the state and the tour- color and sound. VHS & DVD ism 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. A Faire Towne, Family Profile * Trails, Rails and Roads—Documentary on the history of overland Taking Care of the Old Man transportation in Maine, and how the state’s people have been con- History of York, ME. Filmed by Louis de Rochemont. 1952. 15 nected to economic markets and each other. minutes. color and sound. VHS Island Winter A look at winter on the island of Vinalhaven in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. From Dreamland Sent Discover how the lobster industry keeps busy during the off season. Features artists and boatbuilders. 1998. 50 minutes. color and sound. History of the 1893 Maine State Building now in Poland Spring, VHS Maine. 1995. 25 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS

Granite by the Sea Knox County on Parade The history of granite quarrying on Vinalhaven Island located 15 miles of the Maine coast. Many tons of granite were quarried from The people of a mid-coast Maine community, their the Island’s bedrock, shaped and shipped by shcooners, sloops, and workplaces and recreation. 1940. 43 minutes. color, lighters to the East coast and as far west as Kansas City. 2002. 29 silent. VHS & DVD PERF minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS & DVD 18 Geography

Maine Barbecue Portland, Maine A “how to do it” film for outdoor cookery experts staged on a A narrated video tour of the Portland area. 2001. 12 minutes. color Maine lake. Includes opera singing rehearsal at Gilbert and Sullivan and sound. VHS Festival Theatre in Monmouth. 1957. 8 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF Rights and Red Cold War in New Hampshire Modern Times in Maine and America A New Hampshire historical documentary about the Cold War. 1992. 60 minutes. black & white, color and sound. VHS Maine in the early part of the 20th century: tourism, paper industry, hydroelectric power, immigration, agriculture, and reform. 1995. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF Road to the Sky Mount Washington Auto Road. 1991. 25 minutes. black & white, color and sound. VHS Mount Washington Among the Clouds A history of the hotels, newspaper and cog railway, Secrets of the Mt. Washington Hotel 1852-1908. 1989. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS A history of the grand resort in New Hampshire’s Bretton Woods. 2000. 40 minutes. color and sound. VHS

Muscongus Pond, A Potter’s Place Potter Connie Romero talks about relationship between her work and A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time her cabin on the pond. 1979. 20 minutes. color and sound. VHS A look at the island community of Islesford, Maine. 2001. 52 minutes. color and sound. VHS New Hampshire Remembered I Pine Island Park’s roller coaster, a movie at the State Theatre, and Benson’s Wild Sunrise County, USA Animal Farm. 1994. 60 minutes. color and 50 cities and towns of Washington County, Maine: logging, fishing, sound. VHS PERF boating, hunting. 1958. 12 minutes. color and sound. VHS

This Land The Story of a Community Land Trust and a New Hampshire Remembered II Co-oP Called H.O.M.E. Trolleys, ski-jumping, and the Mount Washington Karen Saum’s documentary on Orland, Maine organization. 1983. 26 Hotel. 1995. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF PERF Time Traveler Lake Champlain’s past brought to life. Produced by Vermont Public Television for 4th to 6th graders. 1998. 30 minutes. color and sound. New Hampshire Remembered III VHS Boxing championships in Manchester, the Con- cord Railroad depot, Portsmouth’s Theater by the The Trees Still Grow Sea, and summer camp. 1996. 60 minutes. color Berlin, New Hampshire, history of a mill town. 1994. 30 minutes. black and sound. VHS PERF & white and color, sound. VHS

Norumbega Maine in the Age of Exploration and Settlement US 1 Aroostook Early Maine history, based on maps transferred from a slide tape. Video tour of life along the northernmost beginnings of Route One. 2001. 55 minutes. color and sound. 1989. 16 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF VHS & DVD

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Vermont Memories I White Mountain Memories Includes 1930s promotional film Seeing Vermont Documentary on the development of tourism in New Hampshire’s with Dot and Glen. 1994. 57 minutes. black & wilderness. 2002. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS white and color, sound. VHS & DVD Vermont Memories II Vinalhaven A portrait of the lobstering community of Vinalhaven, Maine. Post World War II. Television comes to Vermont and 1996. 44 minutes. color and sound. VHS other things. 1995. 57 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS & DVD Wohelo, 1919 Vermont Memories III A promotional film of girls’ camp activities on Sebago Lake, Maine. A variety of curious and amusing stories from Vermont’s his- Mini-DV format available for student non-commercial reuse only. See tory. 1996. 60 minutes. black & white, color and sound. VHS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution- & DVD NonCommercial-ShareAlike license information. 10 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS and mini-DV. Vermonters at War: World War II: World War II: New Hampshire From Home Front to Front Lines Interviews, historic news film, photos and radio reports from the Personal memories of Vermonters who lived through the Second battlefields, it chronicles how a nation, a state and the citizens of New World War. 2001. 120 minutes. black & white and color, sound. Hampshire mobilized for war. 1994. 60 minutes. black & white and $24.95 VHS color, sound. VHS Going to the Movies Talks & Summer Symposia

Going to the Movies Talks Summer Film Symposium 2001 * Glen Andres—Middlebury College, places for community enter- Four part series taped at the July, 2001 Summer Film Symposium held tainment in Vermont. at Northeast Historic Film. VHS * Donna Brown—University of Vermont, vacationing at the turn * Patricia Zimmerman—Part I: Morphing History into Histories of the century. Patricia is a professor at Ithica College and the author of Reel Families: * Martha Day—University of Vermont, Vermont documentary A Social History of Amateur Film. Discussion on the historiography of films. home movies. “The archives is not about the past, it’s about the future.” * Kathryn Fuller—Virginia Commonwealth University, rural mov- 109 minutes. color and sound. iegoers and Uncle Josh. * Mark Neumann—Part II: Home Movies on Freud’s Couch * Leger Grindon—Middlebury College, boxing films. Mark, an associate professor in the Department of Communication at * Henry Jenkins— MIT, Star Wars & fan culture. the University of South Florida. Here, he discusses looking at home movies by a patient of Dr. Freud’s, by Archie Stewart and others. 68 * Garth Jowett— University of Houston, the moviegoing experi- minutes. color and sound. ence. (24 minutes) * Eric Schwartz, Esq—Part III: Intellectual Property Law and * Garth Jowett— University of Houston, movie audiences in the Rights of Privacy in Relation to Home Movies 1950s. (44 minutes) Eric works for the law firm of, Smight & Metalitz, LLP, and is of * Susan Kennedy-Kalafatis— University of Vermont, who we counsel to the Library of Congress. He is a board member of the are--mapping ancestries in northern New England. National Film Preservation and member of the National Film Preserva- * Chester H. Liebs— Drive-ins. tion Foundation. Here, Eric provides an overview of the rights and the responsibilities of users of home movies. 81 minutes. color and sound. * Andre Senecal— University of Vermont, Franco-Americans and the movies. * Eric Schaefer—Part IV: Plain Brown Wrapper: * Tom Streeter— University of Vermont, new technologies over Adult Films for the Home Market, 1930-1970 the years. Eric is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual and Media * Denise Youngblood— University of Vermont, movie theaters Arts for Emerson College and is an executive member of the Society before 1918. for cinema Studies. Here, Eric provides a study of 8mm “art” and adult All available on VHS films made to be shown at home. 103 minutes. color and sound. 20 Oral History Politics

Distinguished Visitors An Interview with R. Buckminster Fuller Architect and visionary; University of Maine Distinguished Visitors interview. 1968. 30 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS Forging a National Government A celebration of 200 years of the Congress, the Presidency and the Distinguished Visitors Judiciary. Sponsored by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the US Constitution. 1989. 20 minutes. color and sound. VHS An Interview with William Kienbusch Artist; University of Maine Distinguished Visitors interview. 1968. 30 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt Distinguished Visitors Biography of Teddy Roosevelt narrated by George C. Scott. Reinact- ments and archival footage. 1986. 93 minutes. color and sound. VHS An Interview with James Russell Wiggins Newspaper publisher and diplomat; University of Maine Distinguished Visitors interview. 1968. 30 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS John F. Kennedy Speech Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1963 at University of Maine homecoming. Mini-DV format available for student non- A Downeast Smile-In with Marshall Dodge commercial reuse only. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Three episodes on one videotape of the storyteller’s origi- by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license nal series, first broadcast on Maine Educational Television information. 30 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS PERF in 1970. 90 minutes. color and sound. VHS Muskie vs. Monks: The Final Round The third debate between Senator Edmund Muskie and Bob Monks How to Eat a Lobster on accountability. 1976. 58 minutes. color and sound. VHS Your host, Maine humorist Alan Smith, will explain how to catch, buy, and cook lobsters. He also demonstrates how easy (he says) Radio Fishtown it is to pick out all of the meat no mater where you are dining. One-man radio station in the country battles corporate avarice A “tips and tricks” video for anyone in search of that last bit of and an FCC Goliath who threaten his broadcast license. 1991. 28 “lobstah”. 1995. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS minutes. color and sound. VHS

An Oral Historian’s Work: With Dr. Edward Ives Margaret Chase Smith A “how to” illustrating an oral history project by the founder of the Declaration of intention to run for President, includes Q&A. Maine Folklife Center. 1987. 30 minutes color and sound. VHS & DVD Mini-DV format available for student non-commercial reuse only. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Maine Survivors Remember the Holocaust Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license information. 1964. 17 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS Eight Maine survivors talk about World War II. 1994. 43 minutes color and sound. VHS Student Uprising at Harvard Amateur footage of student takeover of University Hall during an SDS demonstration against the war in Vietnam. Richard Rockefeller Politics Collection.1969. 12 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS

Jerry Brown Speaks in New Hampshire A Visit to Vermont’s Statehouse From the 1992 presidential campaign. 1992. 28 minutes. color and Tour of Vermont’s Statehouse in Montpelier, VT. 2001. 80 minutes. sound. VHS PERF color and sound. VHS The Congress Ken Burns’ history of the legislative branch of the government. 1988. A Visit to Vermont’s Supreme Court 92 minutes. color and sound. VHS Tour of Vermont’s Supreme Court by a class of 8th grade students. 2001. 80 minutes. color and sound. VHS 21 Sports Student Work

Bucksport’s Championship Football Season 1963 Bowdoin Expedition Bucksport High School football games vs. Belfast, Higgins, Stearns, In August 1996, twelve students from the Maine School of Sci- Dexter, Hampden, Maine. 1963. 80 minutes. color and sound. VHS ence & Mathematics and the Caribou Vocational Technical Center re-created the 1605 voyage of English explorer George Weymouth with the help of the Schooner Bowdoin and a crew from the Maine Echoes from the Valley Maritime Academy. Students received hands-on lessons in seaman- Extreme skiing documentary, depicts the environment and lifestyles of ship and conducted field tests in physics, geometry, history, coastal two groups of extreme athletes. New England and California Alpine culture, botany, archaeology. 1997. 37 minutes. color and sound. sport locations. 2001. 75 minutes. color and sound. VHS VHS PERF

Golden: The Hobey Baker Story Carlton Willey This is the story of Hobey Baker, golden athlete, hockey and football Baseball pitcher, 1958 rookie of the year, interviewed in a high Hall of Famer, and gentleman of the pre-World War I “Gilded Age.” school project. Unedited interview from VHS master. 1990. 39 Talented and charismatic, he was the embodiment of sportsmanship, minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF fair play, and honor. 2004. color and sound. VHS & DVD Ella Knowles: A Dangerous Woman Legends of American Skiing Video on a suffragist and Bates alumna by Robert Branham and students. 1991. 25 minutes. color and sound. VHS Footage of early skiing, including Dartmouth Outing Club, Tucker- man’s Ravine, Toni Matt. 1982. 80 minutes. black & white and color, In Jest: A Vegetarian Comedy sound. VHS & DVD A comedy written and acted by Vermont teens, who scramble to stage a school play advocating vegetarianism. Produced by the NESM Film Sampler and Fledging Films Institute for emerging teen writers, actors and The Man in the Red Flannel Suit filmmakers by Kingdom County Productions. Includes Behind the Scenes, additional 30 mins after the feature. 1998. 87 minutes. color Skiing is the subject of this compilation of excerpts of films from the and sound. VHS PERF New England Ski Museum collection. The films range from the 1930s to the 1960s and cover a wide variety of skiing subjects in both U.S. Maine’s Golden School Days, 1890-1930 and international locations. 1996. 45 minutes. black & white and color, A project of The Phillips-Strickland House, Bangor. Interviews and sound. VHS PERF still photos. A project of 8th graders from the Caravel Middle School. 1996. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF Thrills and Spills in the North Country Stowe, North Conway, Woodstock and Lake Placid; interviews with Mission: Alpha Centauri Brad Washburn and others. 1998. 56 minutes. black & white and Super 8 science fiction film made by 8th graders at the Blue Hill color, sound. VHS [Maine] Consolidated School. 1967. 13 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD Winter Sports in the White Mountain National Forest Skiing, sledding, and snowshoeing in New Hampshire. 1934. 28 min- Mysteries of the Unknown: utes. black & white, silent. VHS PERF A Documentary About Our Community An outstanding student video about Bucksport, Maine, with origi- Student Work nal music. 1990. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS

The Batteau Machias Places of Interest in the Bucksport Area Student project on construction of a traditional river-driving boat. A student project. 1989. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS 1990. 22 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF

Best of Fifteen Years Roughing the Uppers The Great Shoe Strike of 1937 The Maine Student Film and Video Festival Documentary by Robert Branham and Bates College students about CIO shoe strike in Lewiston & Auburn, Maine. 1992. 55 minutes. Compilation directed by video educator Huey. 1993. 58 minutes. color and sound. VHS color and sound. VHS 22 Student Work

Tall Tales fueled by the determination of a grandmother. New York: Fac- Sudents from the Whitefield Schools painted images on Central tory workers model new clothes. Massachusetts: Dow Chemical styrofoam. Maine: Building minesweepers; Potatoe harvesting; Maine Power Company utility poles as part of the The Century Kansas: Salt mining, Looms for home spinning. Ohio: BVD Project initiated by the Maine Humanities Council. Interviews. Company. Oregon: Power tools. Pocket auto-pilot, Lear Co. 1994. 22 minutes. color and sound. VHS Eastport, Maine: A town reborn. Frocks to parachutes. 1989. 55 minutes. black & white, sound. Teen 3 * Tape C—Reel #106, 230, 138, & 482 Three short films produced by teenagers at Vermont’s Fledgling Films Family car of the air: Cessna models for the business man. Summer Institute. 1999. 50 minutes. color and sound. VHS Bostich Staple factory in Rhode Island. American Silver Mining Company of Flushing, NY. The Rock Island Railroad rolls again. Electronic tape, Bakelite, Truckers Retreat, Sears mail order cata- Traveling Through the Dark log, Hershey chocolate, laundries, restaurants. Industrial footage A Day in the Life of Scott Grindle from 1940’s & 1950’s. 1989. 55 minutes. black & white, sound. Portrait of a blind 7th-grader by his schoolmates at the Blue Hill [Maine] Consolidated School. 1997. 14 minutes. color and sound. Number Please VHS PERF The Story of Early Telephone Operators in New Hampshire She was at the heart of most rural communities for nearly half a century. She knew you by the sound of your voice. She could track down Technology the doctor or police in an emergency. And sometimes she knew just a little too much about your business. Oral Historian Judith Moyer traces the history of early telephone operators from 1881 until the The Last Ringdown Bryant Pond last one was replaced by a dial tone in 1973. 26 minutes. black & white America’s last magneto telephone company, in Bryant Pond, Maine. and color, sound. VHS 1982. 12 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF

The Crash of 1929 Television The stock market crash that lead to the Great Depression. 1990. 60 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS The Cold War/Transportation/TV Commercials Goodall Mills The Story of Chase Velmo Compilation tape from the Bangor Historical Society / WABI TV collection. 40 to 50 minutes each. black & white, silent and sound. VHS Goodall Mills was a family-owned textile mill in Sanford, Maine. and mini-DV. PERF The film shows the industrial process including men and women at work. Mini-DV format available for student non-commercial reuse only. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Maine’s TV Time Machine Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license information. 1926 The 1950s and early 60s in news, sports and local commercials. 1989. and 1932. 115 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS and mini-DV. 34 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS & DVD PERF Industry on Parade Three part series from a weekly news magazine produced by the Na- Meet the Victim tional Association of Manufacturers in the 1950s. Available on VHS Narrated short TV dramas produced in New England by John Potter. Ill Wind, The Man on the Beach, Trigger Man, The Wall, The Fatal * Tape A—Reel #2 & 150 Story, The Fabulous Pearl. Never Go Back, the last in color, set on Cape GE dedication of new laboratory, researchers turning yesterday’s Cod. 1952. 110 minutes total. black & white and color, sound. VHS dreams into reality. World’s largest temporary printing press at the National Graphic Arts exhibition. Fibreglass boats; 460 Degrees Below Zero - A.D. Little Co. Vermont:toys. Metal molding under pressure. 1989. 21 minutes. black & white, sound. You May Remember This! * Tape B—Reel #335, 107, 29, & 244 Highlights of Manchester, New Hampshire’s Channel 9 from the Indiana: Tomato production has overtaken sales, new campaign to 1950s to 1970s. 1996. 44 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS increase sales. Texas: ceramic bookrest business, mass production 23 Transportation Women’s Topics

The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad America’s First Filmmakers Bronson Communications for Bangor and Aroos- Alice Guy-Blache & Lois Weber took Railroad Company. 1991. 30 minutes. color and Four films by two of the silent era’s most successful women directors, sound. VHS & DVD Alice Guy-Blache and Lois Weber. How Men Propose (1913); Matri- mony’s Speed Limit (1913), A House Divided (1913) and Too Wise Wives (1921). 1995. 114 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS

Gee Bee Airplanes An American Nurse at War The sport planes that made a fabulous Historical documentary focuses on World War I entrance into the aviation scene in the early through the eyes of Marion McCune Rice of Brat- 1930s. 1992. 60 minutes. black & white and tleboro, Vermont, who spent four years in France color, sound. VHS helping wounded soldiers and civilians. 1997. 36 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS

Maintenance of Steel and Motor Power Electra Havemeyer Webb Out of the Ordinary Two railroad maintenance films Big Muscle(1962) and Giants of the Biographical documentary of the founder of The Shelburne [VT] Roadhouse(1968) produced by the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad. Museum. 2002. 60 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS 1962, 1968. 36 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD Hard Work Marilyn Clark Collection In this documentary the women’s voices are brought Presented by the United States Post Office Department, produced by to life again to tell the story of working conditions Bureau of Transportation and Bureau of Personnel. This is a look at for women in the later part of the 19th century in “Mail by Rail.” 1950. 28 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS Maine. Using interviews, historical photos, and video from present day factories Hard Work details the rise Moving History Two-Foot Rail Returns to Maine of the female workforce in the State’s mills and factories and explores the conditions that women had Antique trucks haul the Edaville Railroad trains to Portland. 1993. to endure both on and off the job. 2004. 59 minutes. 48 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD color and sound. VHS On the Job: Women Launching a New Tradition Northern Railroads Women who worked in the ship building industry in wartime US Steam era footage, stories by railroaders and histo- durng the 1940s. 1997. 29 minutes. color and sound. VHS rians. 1995. 60 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS & DVD Soul of a Woman Documentary about Mary Baker Eddy and founding of The First Church of Christ, Scientist. 1994. 60 minutes. color and sound. VHS

Rails and Trails Visions for Maine’s Future Footage of railway trains and promotion of passenger rail systems Working Women of Waldo County: Our Heritage in Maine and New Hampshire. Includes NHF archival footage from History of women’s work: Basketmaking from colonial times, spinning Philip Thompson Collection. 1992. 18 minutes. color and sound. VHS and weaving, use of herbs, animal tending, teaching school, readings from women’s diaries in 18th and 19th centuries. Some scenes are Ride the Sandy River Railroad same as in Her Story. Preparing fish, telling about ancestors, tending farm while raising 15 children after husband dies of tuberculosis, For more than fifty years, Franklin County, Maine enjoyed the best quilting, working at a young age, low wages, women dying young in two foot guage railroad in the country. Started in the late 1870s, the Sandy colonial times,making fishing net. 1983. 29 minutes. color and sound. River Line eventually comprised 113 miles of track until its sudden death VHS & DVD in 1935. Fortunately a group of film enthusiasts documented all they could before its demise. 1930. 30 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS & DVD 24 Woods

Alaska Silence & Solitude From Pulpwood to Newsprint Filmmakers Bob Swerer Sr. and Bob Swerer Jr. venture into the remote wilderness of Alaska to A comprehensive look at the papermaking experience and film abundant wildlife encountering process. 1940. 25 minutes. color and sound. bull moose, caribou, dahl sheep, and grizzly bear. VHS & DVD They also meet Dick Proenneke who has lived in this “one man wilderness” for over 30 years. 2004. 58 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD From Stump to Ship A 1930s Logging Film Complete look at the long-log industry from for- Alone in the Wilderness est to on board a schooner bound for New York. A National Film Registry title. Mini-DV format Richard Proenneke lives a self-sufficient life in his log cabin. This available for student non-commercial reuse only. film is a simple account of his day-to-day explorations and activi- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc- ties he carries out alone in the wilderness and the constant chain of sa/2.0/ for Attribution-NonCommercial-Share- nature’s events that keep him company. 2004. 60 minutes. color and Alike license information. 1930. 28 minutes. black sound. VHS & DVD & white, sound. VHS & DVD PERF

Cut and Run Helicopter Logging Health and safety in the woods in the era of An episode from the television series U.S. Logger. 1994. 30 min- mechanization, by Richard Searls. 1980. 40 minutes. color and sound. VHS utes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF In the Public Interest The Civilian Conservation Corps in Maine Dead River Rough Cut The Directors Cut The federal work program from Acadia National Park to Cape Eliza- Newly remastered director’s take on the beth. 1987. 58 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS original, with 20 minutes of bonus footage never seen before. 2002. 75 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD Katahdin The Mountain of the People The story of Baxter State Park in Maine. 2001. color and sound. VHS & DVD

Dynamite, Whiskey and Wood Connecticut Log Drives Keyes Fibre Company Groundwood Mill Operations Connecticut log drives 1870 - 1915. Every year, river men drove over a quarter of a million spruce The Keyes Fibre Company was founded in logs 300 miles from the river’s headwaters near Shawmut, Maine in 1903. This video shows the Quebec to sawmills in Massachusetts. Much of the operations of its groundwood mill in the early lumber that built the cities of Greenfield, Holy- 1950’s which produced pulp destined for paper oke, Springfield and Hartford came from those plates and trays. Original video shot by Keyes mills. Includes underwater footage, historical photographs, early film, Fibre employee LeRoy Goodine in 1952 with his newsapaper accounts and personal reminiscences. 2005. 57 minutes. personal narration added in 2005. 30 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS & DVD color and sound. VHS & DVD

Forest Wars King Spruce “Can we have our wood products and our forest too?” 1996. 72 Harvesting pulpwood, includes horses and mechanical log haulers. minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF 1940. 23 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF 25 Woods

October Fury Maine’s Forest Fire Disasters Land of Remembered Vacations A documentary examining the destructive forest fires Maine experienced in October of 1947. Produced for the Maine Forest Service. Promotional work made for the Maine Department of Economic De- 1997. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF velopment. Begins with scenes of Kittery, Maine turnpike to Augusta and Kennebec River. Film includes discussion of: lakes of Maine, Maine colleges, multitudes of lodgings, fishing in lakes, Pemaquid Maine’s Magnificent Moose Light, lighthouses, life and activities of lobstermen, fall foliage, water- Learn the amazing facts about moose and behold the awesome ani- falls, mineral collecting, panning for gold, oxen pulling logs, “oldtim- mals themselves in this remarkable footage. Scenes include a moose ers” describing the virtues of splitting wood, Skowhegan State Fair defending her calf, courtship rituals and sparring matches between (started in 1819), Sugarloaf (resort), county fairs and harness racing. bulls. 1997. 45 minutes. color and sound. VHS 1955. 20 minutes. color and sound. VHS Our White Pine Heritage How the trees are harvested for use in construction, papermaking, etc. 1948. 16 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS PERF Last Log Drive Down the Kennebec Documentary about Scott Paper’s last log drive. Pilgrim Forests 1976. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD Civilian Conservation Corps work in New England -- Acadia Na- tional Park and White Mountain National Forest. 1933. 10 minutes. black & white, silent. VHS PERF

Little Log Cabin in the Northern Woods River Run Amateur film of a young woman’s hunting trip near Brownville, Machias River watershed and the log drive. 1951. 15 minutes. color Maine, with a professional guide. 1930. 13 minutes. black & white, and sound. VHS PERF silent. VHS PERF

Loons of the Northern Forest Shingles Made in Maine Wildlife footage of two loon families followed through the full The process of cutting and installing white cedar breeding season. 1998. 45 minutes. color and sound. VHS shingles in East Corinth, Maine. 1990. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF Lumberjack Sky Pilot True life experiences of lumberjacks during the 1930’s and 1940’s as filmed by Rev. Frank Reed, who visited lumber camps in the North Country. So You Want to be a Woodsman 2001. 60 minutes. black & white, sound. VHS & DVD Compilation of 1940s training films including Use and Care of a Bucksaw and Twitching. 1996. 58 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF

Borrow any video from our listing for free! You only need to The Story of Baxter State Park be a member of NHF. In 1931, Former Governor Percival Baxter gave to the people of Maine the first parcel of what was to become the more than 200,000 Call 1.800.639.1636 acre park that bears his name. At the time most considered the area a remote wasteland which may be why it remains a wilderness in which to seek solace from the fast paced world, a place where nature is at peace. 1998. 45 minutes. color and sound. VHS 26 Woods

The Story of Wood in the Northeast This is a comprehensive look at the many uses of wood and the Timberjack The First 50 Years vast array of products derived from it. Several species of trees are 50 Years of logging mechanization in the forest from the horse to the harvested and graded for use. Detailed narration and images show walking machine, from the first skidder to the computerized harvesting woods, sawmills, and manufacturing. See boards, furniture, apple machine of today. 1997. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF boxes, salt-fish tubs, plywood, and shoe heels made. Originally produced for the Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Associa- tion. 2006. 30 minutes. color and sound. DVD Timberjack Who’s Lookin’ After My Forest? . . . And Howse it Going? Informative video showing how modern forestry practices can be com- pared to harvesting a crop of corn. 1997. 30 minutes. color and sound. Then it Happened VHS PERF In 1947, forest fires in devastated Maine. Focuses on aftermath in southern Maine. 1947. 20 min- Wilderness & Spirit: A Mountain Called Katahdin utes. color and sound. VHS & DVD PERF Documentary about Mt. Katahdin in Baxter State Park in Maine. 2002. 1000 minutes. color and sound. VHS & DVD

Woodsmen and River Drivers, Timber is a Crop Pulpwood harvesting in the 1940s-1950s, from the Brown Com- Another Day, Another Era pany Collection, Berlin, NH. 1940. 66 minutes. color and sound. 5 unforgettable individuals who worked for the Machias Lumber Com- VHS & DVD PERF pany. Mini-DV format available for student non-commercial reuse only. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ for Timberjack: The Careful Loggers Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license information. 1989. 30 minutes. black & white and color, sound. VHS & DVD PERF Cut-to-length logging machinery in action. 1997. 30 minutes. color and sound. VHS PERF

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Night Portland Burned, The The fire started at the corner of Maple and lower Hollywood Comes to Vinalhaven: The Making of Deep Waters Commercial Street and spread across the city and up Deep Waters, an adaptation of Ruth Moore’s Spoonhandle, was Munjoy Hill destroying everything in its path before filmed on Vinalhaven Island of the coast of Maine in 1947. Fea- burning itself out at the edge of Eastern Cemetery. tured actors were Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero and Losses were estimated at 15 million dollars. People Dean Stockwell. This documentary includes behind -the- scenes from all over the country reached out to the people anecdotes, archival photographs and home movies, and reminis- of Portland. cences from island residents old enough to have experienced the 27 minutes DVD production and young enough to remember. 75 minutes DVD Peapods of the Maine Coast Interviews with 12 individuals who have knowledge of the Moving History: Two Foot Rail Returns to Maine Peapod. The little double-ended boats known as peapods have In a parade unlike any seen before, fifty antique trucks form a played an essential role in the life and history of Maine. They are convoy to haul the Edaville Railroad Collection 150 miles from thought to have originated around 1870, or earlier, around Penob- Massachusetts to its new home in Portland, Maine. Leading the scot Bay. They were the original Maine lobster boat, as fishermen parade are the original trucks that took the unique train out of could row either way, and walk up the side to haul a rap. This Maine a half century ago. series of interviews commemorates the boats and captures some 48 minutes of the history and knowledge held by a generation who has seen them pass from working to largely recreational crafts. 85 minutes DVD Vermont’s Great Flood In 1927, Vermont faced the worst natural disaster ever to befall the rural state. A huge flood swept Salmon Country away houses, roads, farm animals and livelihoods. A trip back to the heyday of Atlantic salmon Over 600 farms and hundreds of businesses were sport fishing in Downeast Maine. Between the destroyed. The loss of track and trains made it the late 1940s and the late 1980s Downeast Maine worst disaster in railroad history. From tiny villages was world famous for its Atlantic Salmon to the state capital in Montpelier, few communities fishing. People came, from around the corner went unscathed. Archival footage and interviews and around the world, to cast a fly to the “king with survivors bring this historic event to life. of the sport fish”. With the recent decline of 21 minutes VHS salmon populations in the Downeast rivers this industry and the culture that surrounds it is a fading into history. Fortunately Phil Harriman of Cherryfield, a visionary and dedicated salmon advocate for more than 50 years, Maine Goes to the Tangerine Bowl has preserved a piece of history from the heyday of Atlantic In 1965, the University of Maine football team salmon angling in Downeast Maine. Phil’s film Salmon Country, competed in the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, originally created as a promotional film for the Narraguagus River Florida against East Carolina. This docudrama Inn and Guiding Service, now serves as one of the few pieces produced and directed by George Wildey, of motion picture documantation of this period in Downeast follows the team as they practice for the game history. He takes us from landlocked fishing on Tunk Lake to the and make the trip South. To prepare, they run crowds gathering to watch a sea-run salmon landed in downtown drills outside in the snow and workout inside Cherryfield. The film truly brings you back to bygone days. with the thermostat set at 80 degrees. We see DVD the team head to the airport and follow them through their busy week in Florida. Practices, pre-game events Schoodic: Where Sea Meets Land and halftime shows are highlighted. George Hale does the play- This DVD is about the communities of Gouldsboro, Prospect by-play as parts of the game are shown. The boys return to Maine Harbor, Corea and Winter Harbor, Maine. They all share a penin- to a hero’s welcome. This Black Bear team remains the only one sula on the coast and an understanding of magic. It is the magic from Maine to ever compete in a bowl contest of ocean knocking against a rocky coast, or sun burning through 22 minutes PLUS bonus footage! DVD a lingering morning fog. It is the magic found in the practical ap- proach 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 28 New Titles/Additions

Starting Over: Understanding and Supporting Up in Flames Refugee and Immigrant Experiences. A fascinating look at the development of North The stories of four University of Southern Maine students reveal American fire detection, communication, and fire challenges, resilience, and determination. suppression technology from the inception of the lookout tower to the weather satellite. Remarkable historical footage and photographs Moving History: Two Foot Rail Returns to Maine show the devastation of fires such as Idaho’s 1910 Crisp archival footage, photographs and modern Big Blowup and Oregon’s 1933 Tillamook Burn. reenactments document the development of log The impact of these catastrophic fires on the search and develop- moving technology and its impact on the land. ment of fire fighting technology is illustrated with scenes of hand You are taken back to the river drives in colonial tool use, fire plows, aerial tankers, and New Hampshire and then to the introduction of smokejumping. The multi-agency Operation Firestop in 1954 helicopter and balloon yarding in the in the Pacific is highlighted as an example of the cooperative nature of the Northwest. You see how geography played a role in research and development effort. Edited and produced by Vester the tools of the trade and the transportation of logs to the mills. Dick. See timber harvesting, river drives, big wheels, the steam donkey 29 minutes DVD engine, logging railroads, steam loaders, the Lombard log hauler, and early crawler tractors and fairlead arches. Edited and produced by Vester Dick. 34 minutes DVD Vermonts 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 business- Trail to Better Dairying es were destroyed. The loss of track and trains made it the worst In the 1940s there was a shortage of milk and disaster in railroad history. From tiny villages to the state capital quality dairy cattle in Hancock County, Maine. in Montpelier, few communities went unscathed. Archival foot- To remedy this, Maine’s first county- wide 4-H age and interviews with survivors bring this historic event to life. club was born. Ralph Corbett of the University 21 min. DVD of Maine Extension Service provided calves for each of the children in the club. This film was made to document this ground- Pemaquid: Stewards by the Sea breaking first year. The children show off their This story of Pemaquid Peninsula on midcoast Maine is told by progress and their calves in visits to each of the place itself and the people who call it home. their homes. It also explains the proper care and feeding of young 59 min. DVD dairy stock. Their efforts are rewarded at the 1946 Blue Hill Fair and at their end-of-the- year banquet at the Trenton Lobster Pound. 44 minutes color and sound. DVD 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. Tunbridge Trilogy 60 min. DVD 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 Memories of Steam in New England, New Haven, commentaries, and yes, Man with a Plan now includes the real-life Central Vermont, Maine Central story of Fred Tuttle’s rise to political greatness. This video showcases steam locomotives in action in silent archival DVD footage with an added soundtrack. 30 min. DVD 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. 58 minutes DVD 29 Index A-Mi

Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon The Crash of 1929...... 23 Gloucester’s Adventure An American Story...... 5 King Spruce...... 25 A Life Together...... 4 Cupid, Registered Guide...... 11 Golden: The Hobey Baker Story...... 22 The Knight of the Pines...... 11 The Abenaki of Vermont: A Living Culture...... 3 Cut & Run...... 25 Goodall Mills The Story of Chase Velmo...... 23 Ella Knowles: A Dangerous Woman...... 22 Affliction...... 13 Martha Day: Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 Grace A Portrait of Grace DeCarlton Ross.....4 Knox County on Parade...... 18 Alaska Silence & Solitude...... 25 Dead River Rough Cut-The Director’s Cut...... 25 Granite by the Sea...... 18 L.L. Bean Biography...... 10 Alice’s Restaurant...... 13 Desire Under the Elms...... 13 Great Cranberry Island...... 18 Land for Learning Justin Morill and America’s All But Forgotten Land Grant Colleges & Universities...... 10 Holman Francis Day, Filmmaker...... 11 Distinguished Visitors Leger Grindon: Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 An Interview with R. Buckminster Fuller...... 21 Land of Remembered Vacations...... 26 All the Brothers Were Valiant...... 13 Hard Work...... 24 Distinguished Visitors Last Log Drive Down The Kennebec...... 26 Alone in the Wilderness...... 25 An Interview with William Kienbusch...... 21 Helicopter Logging...... 25 Launching of the Doris Hamlin...... 5 America’s First Women Filmmakers; Distinguished Visitors Hello, New Hampshire...... 9 Alice Guy-Blache and Lois Weber...... 24 An Interview with James Russell Wiggins...... 21 Leather Soul Here Comes the Groom...... 13 Working for a Life in a Factory Town...... 8 American Challenge Alone Against the Atlantic...5 Down East Dairyland...... 9 History is Always Being Made at Bucksport...... 18 Leave Her to Heaven...... 13 An American Nurse at War...... 24 Downeast Lobsterman...... 5 A History of Kittery Gateway to Maine...... 9 Legendary Lighthouses Anchor of the Soul...... 8 A Downeast Smile-In with Marshall Dodge...... 21 History of Lake View Plantation...... 18 North Atlantic and Maine...... 5 Glen Andres: Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 Dynamite, Whiskey, and Wood - Connecticut Home, The Story of Maine: Legends of American Skiing:1840-1940...... 22 Log Drives...... 25 Aroostook County, 1920’s...... 9 A Love for the Land...... 18 Let’s Go to the Farm with Mac Parker...... 7 Earliest Maine Films...... 11 Around Cape Horn...... 5 Home, The Story of Maine: A Part of the Main..18 Chester H. Liebs: Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 Earliest Massachusetts Films...... 11 Assignment in Aroostook...... 17 Home, The Story of Maine: A Place Apart...... 18 Light Spirit: Lighthouses of the Maine Coast...... 5 Earth Medicine...... 3 The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad: Home, The Story of Maine: Power Lines...... 18 Lighthouses of Maine The First 100 Years 1891-1991...... 24 Eastport...... 18 Home, The Story of Maine: The Nation’s A Journey Through Time...... 5 Barns: Legacy of Wood & Stone...... 9 Echoes from the Valley...... 22 Playground...... 18 Lipstick...... 15 Basic Net Mending...... 16 Eight Ways to Fish...... 18 Home, The Story of Maine: Little Log Cabin in the Northern Pines...... 26 They Came By Sea...... 18 The Batteau Machias...... 22 Emigration A Franco-American Experience.17 A Little Rebellion Now and Then...... 8 Home, The Story of Maine: Bayside...... 17 Richard Estes A Film Documentary...... 4 Trails, Rails and Roads...... 18 Live Lobster Maine Lobsterman...... 16 Bed & Breakfast...... 13 Evangeline...... 13 Homer Price Stories...... 7 Lobstertown...... 10

Before and After...... 13 Evangeline’s Quest...... 17 Honest Vision: A Portrait of Todd Webb...... 4 Long Days Journey into Night...... 13 Ben’s Mill...... 9 Experience Portland Past...... 18 The House of the Seven Gables...... 13 The Long Trail: A Footpath in the Wilderness...10 Berenice Abbott A Faire Towne Family Profile How to Eat a Lobster...... 21 Loons of the Northern Forest...... 26 A View of the Twentieth Century...... 4 Taking Care of the Old Man...... 18 I Married a Witch...... 13 Los Dos Mundos de Angelita / Best of Fifteen Years Family Profile Taking Care of the Old Man The Two Worlds of Angelita...... 15 The Maine Student Film and Video Festival....22 Ice Harvesting Sampler...... 9 Farm Stories for Families - Mac Parker Lost Boundaries...... 13 Big Horse...... 7 In Days Gone By Vermont Country Ways...... 9 The Farming Project Troubled Harvest...... 9 Lumberjack Sky Pilot...... 26 The Bill Wilson Story...... 8 The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt...... 21 Fear Strikes Out...... 13 MacDowell An Artist’s Colony...... 4 Bonsoir Mes Amis...... 17 In Jest: A Vegetarian Comedy...... 22 Feed...... 13 Maine Barbecue...... 19 A Bowdoin Expedition...... 22 In the Public Interest Fence in the Water...... 16 Civilian Conservation Corps in Maine...... 25 Maine Lighthouses The Last Watch...... 6 Brother of the Bear...... 11 Finest Kind...... 16 In the Spirit of Haystack...... 4 The Maine Lobster...... 16 Donna Brown: Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 The First Mainers...... 3 The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt Maine Marine Worm Industry...... 16 Jerry Brown Speaks in New Hampshire...... 21 Fishing For the Future...... 16 Industry on Parade - Tape A - Reel #2 & 150, Maine Masters Project...... 4 Bryant Pond The Last Ringdown...... 23 Tape B - Reel #335, 107, 29, & 244, Tape C - James Fitzgerald A Painter’s Journey...... 4 Reel #106, 230, 138, & 482 ...... 23 Maine Summer Festival...... 10 Bucksport’s Championship Football Season, 1963...... 22 Forging a National Government...... 21 The Inkwell...... 13 Maine Survivors Remember the Holocaust...... 21 Paul Bunyan...... 7 Forest Wars...... 25 Invisible...... 3 Maine’s Golden School Days, 1890-1930...... 22 Bush Pilot...... 13 Franco-Americans We Remember...... 17 Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn...... 13 Maine’s Harvesters of the Sea...... 16 Can I Get There From Here?...... 8 The Friendship Sloop...... 5 Island Winter...... 18 Maine’s Magnificent Moose...... 26

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring...... 12 From Dreamland Sent...... 18 It’s the Maine Sardine...... 16 Maine’s TV Time Machine...... 23 Casco Bay...... 5 From Pulpwood to Newsprint...... 25 Jazz on a Summer’s Day...... 13 Maintenance of Steel and Motor Power...... 24 Castine...... 18 From Stump To Ship Henry Jenkins: Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 Making of an American...... 11 A 1930 Logging Film...... 25 A Century of Summers...... 9 Jenny’s Island Life...... 5 Malice...... 13 Robert Frost’s New Hampshire...... 4 Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine...... 8 Jeremiah O’Brien Homecoming...... 5 Man with a Plan...... 14 Kathryn Fuller “Dish Night” : Change & Challenge...... 9 Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 Garth Jowett: Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 The Maple Sugaring Story...... 7 Changing Landscapes Kathryn Fuller “Uncle Josh” : Garth Jowett, “1950’s Rebel Without a Cause” : Marine Mammals of the Gulf of Maine...... 6 Vermont’s Past Century...... 18 Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 Master Smart Woman...... 4 Cherryfield, 1938...... 9 Funny Farm...... 13 Just Maine Folks...... 11 Robert McCloskey Library...... 7 Children of the North Lights...... 7 Gabriel Women, Katahdin: The Mountain of the People...... 25 Meade of Gettysburg...... 8 Passamaquoddy Basketmakers...... 3 Closing the Circle, The Alewife Run Keeping the Tradition Alive One Town’s Story...10 Meet the Victim...... 23 In Damariscotta Mills...... 9 Gayleen...... 4 Susan Kennedy - Kalafatis: Marilyn Clark Collection...... 24 The Cold War...... 23 The Gazebo...... 13 Going to the Movies Talks...... 20 A Midwife’s Tale...... 14 Hap Collins of South Blue Hill, Maine...... 9 Gee Bee Airplanes...... 24 John F. Kennedy Speech...... 21 Miss Olympia...... 15 The Congress...... 21 Giant Horses...... 9 Keyes Fibre Company - Groundwood Mill Operations...... 25 Mission: Alpha Centauri...... 22 Conversations With Farmers...... 9 Gilley Portrait of a Bird Carver...... 4 30 Index Mo-Y

Modern Times in Maine and Ameri- Penobscot Bay...... 6 Margaret Chase Smith Speech...... 21 Vermont Memories I...... 20 ca...... 19 Peyton Place...... 14 So You Want to Be a Woodsman?...... 26 Vermont Memories II Into the ‘50s...... 20 Mount Washington Among the Clouds...... 19 Pilgrim Forests...... 26 Song of the Drum - The Petroglyphs of Maine....3 Vermont Memories III Vanished Images...... 20 The Movie Queen, Bar Harbor...... 10 Places of Interest in the Bucksport Area...... 22 Soul of a Woman...... 24 A Vermont Romance...... 11 Movie Queen 2000, Bucksport...... 10 Poem in Action...... 4 South Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Vermonters at War World War II...... 20 The Movie Queen, Lincoln...... 10 Expedition...... 6 Portland, Maine...... 19 The Viking...... 15 The Movie Queen, Lubec...... 10 Stella Dallas...... 14 Portrait of George Hardy...... 4 Vinalhaven...... 20 The Movie Queen, Middlebury ...... 10 Archie Stewart Collection...... 15 Portrait of Jennie...... 14 A Visit to Vermont’s Statehouse...... 21 The Movie Queen, Newport...... 10 A Stolen Life...... 14 Potato Eaters...... 10 A Visit to Vermont’s Supreme Court...... 21 Moving History The Story of Baxter State Park...... 26 Two-Foot Rail Returns to Maine...... 24 Prophecy...... 14 Voices From Maine...... 12 The Story of Wood in the Northeast...... 27 Muscongus Pond, A Potter’s Place...... 19 Rachel, Rachel...... 14 Wabanaki: A New Dawn...... 3 Strange Interlude...... 14 Muskie vs. Monks: The Final Round...... 21 Radio Fishtown...... 21 Waking Up French (Reveil)...... 17 The Stranger...... 14 My Grandparents Had a Hotel...... 10 Rails and Trails - Visions for Maine’s Future...... 24 Way Back Home...... 15 A Stranger in the Kingdom...... 15 My Lady O’ the Pines...... 11 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...... 14 Way Down East...... 11 Tom Streeter: Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 Mysteries of the Unknown, A Documentary Reflets et Lumiere: The Ways at Wallace & Sons about our Community...... 22 Acadian Villages, Acadian History...... 17 Student Uprising at Harvard...... 21 The Bank Dory...... 6 The Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People...... 3 Reflets et Lumiere: Assimilation...... 17 Summer Film Symposium 2001...... 20 Electra Havemeyer Webb Out of the Ordinary..24 The Myth of Fingerprints...... 14 Reflets et Lumiere: Bilingualism...... 17 A Summer Place...... 15 Where the Rivers Flow North...... 15

Nature’s Blueberryland...... 10 Reflets et Lumiere: Festivals...... 17 Summer Stock...... 15 The White Heron...... 7 Helen Nearing Conscious Living/ Reflets et Lumiere: Immigration...... 17 Sunrise Country USA...... 19 White Mountain Memories...... 20 Conscious Dying...... 12 Reflets et Lumiere: Lowell Mills...... 17 Swanton Community Video...... 11 Who Has Seen the Wind?...... 12 NESM Film Sampler and The Man in the Red Reflets et Lumiere: Organizers...... 17 A Tale of Two Fisheries...... 16 Wilderness & Spirit Flannel Suit...... 22 A Mountain Called Katahdin...... 27 Reflets et Lumiere: Tales From The North Country New England’s Great River...... 6 Porte Ouverte Sur Les Arts...... 17 Carlton Willey...... 22 Tales of Wood and Water...... 6 New Hampshire Remembered I...... 19 Reflets et Lumiere: Potato Harvest...... 17 Winter Sports in the White Mountain National Tall Tales...... 23 New Hampshire Remembered II...... 19 Forest...... 22 Reflets et Lumiere: Recontre de Peuples Teen 3...... 23 New Hampshire Remembered III...... 19 Francophone, Quebec...... 17 With Honors...... 15 Then It Happened...... 27 Noble Hearts Civil War Vermont...... 8 Reflets et Lumiere: Social Clubs...... 17 Within Our Gates...... 11 Theodora Goes Wild...... 15 Northern Railroads...... 24 Reflets et Lumiere: St. Mary’s Hospital...... 17 Wohelo, 1919...... 20 This Land The Story of a Community Land Northrunner Reflets et Lumiere: Bilingualism Woodsmen and Riverdrivers Another Day, Church Reform...17 Trust & a Co-Op Called HOME...... 19 Another Era...... 27 The Land of Norumbega: Maine in the Age of Thrills and Spills in the North Country...... 22 Exploration & Settlement...... 19 Reflets et Lumiere: The Catholic Church...... 17 Words from Millie’s Garden The Story of Pettengill Farm...... 11 Timber is a Crop...... 27 Nosey Parker...... 14 Reflets et Lumiere: The Community Old Town...... 17 Working Women of Waldo County Timberjack The Careful Loggers...... 27 Number Please...... 23 Our Heritage...... 24 Renascence Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet...... 4 Timberjack The First 50 Years...... 27 October Fury World War II New Hampshire...... 20 Ride the Sandy River Railroad...... 24 Maine’s Forest Fire Disasters...... 26 Timberjack Who’s Lookin’ After My Forest? ...And Howse it Going?...... 27 Wyman Station...... 12 Old Ironsides...... 14 Rights & Reds Cold War in New Hampshire.....19 Time Traveler...... 19 Yachting in the ‘30s...... 6 Old Man Dogs...... 14 River Run...... 26 Timothy’s Quest...... 15 You May Remember This!...... 23 Old Sardine Village Series, 1-2, 11-12, 7-8...... 16 Road to the Sky...... 19 To Die For...... 15 Young People...... 15 On Board the Morgan...... 7 Roughing the Uppers The Great Shoe Strike of 1937...... 22 Together in Time A Story of New England Denise Youngblood: Going to the Movies Talk..20 On My Own The Traditions of Daisy Turner...... 4 Rural Free Delivery 1-3, 4-6, 7-10...... 10 Contra Music and Dance...... 17 On the Job Transportation...... 23 Women Launching a New Tradition...... 24 The Sailor’s Sacrifice...... 11 Trap Day...... 6 One Crazy Summer...... 14 May Sarton Woman of Letters...... 4 Traveling Through the Dark: A Day in the Life An Oral Historian’s Work with Dr. Edward Ives..21 May Sarton She Knew a Phoenix...... 4 of Scott Grindle...... 23 The Other Boston Tea Party...... 8 Sea Captain’s Port...... 6 The Trees Still Grow...... 19 Our Dances...... 3 Second Sight...... 14 The Trouble with Harry...... 15 Our Farmers Eight Years Later Secrets of the Mount Washington Ho- Tugboat...... 6 The Farming Project...... 10 tel...... 19 Tuna Fishing off Portland Harbor, Maine...... 16 Our Fishing Heritage...... 16 Andre Senecal: Going to the Movies Talk...... 20 Turn of the Tide...... 16 Our Lives in Our Hands...... 3 A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time...... 19 TV Commercials...... 23 Our White Pine Heritage...... 26 The Seventh Day...... 14 24 Hours...... 8 Outward Bound...... 6 Shadows...... 11 Two Sisters From Boston...... 15 Paris, 1929...... 10 Shingles Made In Maine...... 26 The Two Worlds of Angelita / Mac Parker’s Farm Stories for Families...... 7 Signs of Life...... 14 Los Dos Mundos de Angelita...... 15 Parrish...... 14 The Silent Enemy...... 14 Uncle Blaine...... 15 Simon Birch...... 14 Part-time Farmer...... 10 Underwater, Out of Sight...... 16 Paul Bunyan, Favorite Stories...... 7 The Simp and the Sophomores...... 11 An Unlikely Cathedral...... 11 Paul Bunyan, Read by Jonathan Winters...... 7 Sins of Our Mothers...... 10 US 1 Aroostook...... 19 Penobscot Basket Maker: Barbara Francis...... 3 Gus Skoog Boatbuilder of Vinalhaven, Maine.....5 Vermont is for Lovers...... 15 31 Membership Information Membership at any level is an opportunity to become involved with the preservation and enjoyment of our moving image heritage. 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