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American Indians..................3 Jane Morrison.....................18 Artists and Authors...............4 Movie Queen.......................12 Boats and the Sea..............5-6 New England Places......19-21 Children.................................7 Oral History.........................22 City Life..................................8 Politics..................................22 Civil War.................................8 Sports..................................23 Colonial Times.......................8 Student Work.................23-24 Country Life.....................9-10 Technology..........................24 Early Film.............................11 Television.............................25 Ecology and Energy............12 Transportation....................25 Feature Films.................13-15 Women’s Topics...................26 Fisheries...............................16 Woods............................26-28 Franco-American Life.........17 Membership Information...29 Going to the Movies Talks Index...............................30-31 and Summer Symposia......18 Home Movies......................18 2 American Indians Abenaki of Vermont: A Living Culture Our Dances This is an intimate look at the lives of contemporary Penobscot Indian Island School student project demonstrates Abenaki Indians and how they stay connected to the traditional and tribal dances with clay animation scenes and live traditions and values of their forebears. action. 1997. 30 minutes. VHS 30 minutes. VHS Our Lives in Our Hands Micmac Indian basketmaking cooperative in northern Maine. 1988. 50 minutes. DVD Earth Medicine A four part series on the use of plants and trees by Little Tree, now a Vermont resident. 4 DVD’s, 2 episodes per DVD. 1975. Penobscot Basketmaker—Barbara Francis Appx. 240 minutes for the series. PERF The life and basketry work of Barbara Francis, a Penobscot who lived on Indian Island, Maine. 2002. 52 minutes. DVD The First Mainers Passamaquoddy Indians of Pleasant Point and Indian Township. Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Keepers 1975. 22 minutes. VHS Nuskicinuwatuwahtipon 25 edited conversations recorded between 2006 and 2008 in Maine and New Brunswick, are thematically organized on 7 DVDs. They Gabriel Women: Passamaquoddy Basketmakers range from humorous storytelling, oral history, and personal remi- niscence to conversations about everyday experiences, Mary Gabriel, born in 1908 on the Passamaquoddy Reservation in past and present. 2009. DVD set Indian Township, Maine, and honored as a National Heritage Fellow in 1994, tells the inspiring story of learning the centuries-old basketmaking tradition from Song of the Drum: The Petroglyphs of Maine her grandmother, and of passing the tradition In Maine, the Native Americans began carving images into stone on to her two daughters, Sylvia and Clare. The ledges beginning about 3,000 years ago. These petroglyphs, prob- three women illustrate their commitment to ably the work of shamans, were used as metaphors of the spirit cultural values and how they have served as quest or to help memorize chants. Because the petroglyphs had mentors to others. powerful spiritual qualities, they were avoided by the uninitiated. 1999. 28 minutes. DVD This fi lm presents explanations and ideas about what the images mean and how they changed as the ideas of the people who made them changed. 2004. 47 minutes. DVD Invisible This fi lm 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. DVD deeply embedded in white American culture and how that culture continues to shape Native American reality today. DVD includes 83 minutes of supplemental interviews. 2005. 59 minutes. DVD The Wind Bird Mystery of the Lost Red Paint People Animated (claymation) student fi lm based on Native American Archaeology of the circumpolar region, including coastal New (Penobscot) mythology. 2001. 18 minutes. VHS England. 1987. 60 minutes. VHS 3 Artists and Authors Bernice Abbott: A View of the Twentieth Century Maine Masters Project Life and work of one of America’s most signifi cant photographers; Maine artists interviewed in their studios discussing their lives and she lived in Maine into her 90s. 1992. 56 minutes. VHS work. Each 30 minutes. DVD Louis Dodd. 2009. Stephen Pace. 2008. Donald Hall & Jane Kenyon: A Life Together Harold Garde. 2002. Robert Hamilton. 2007. New Hampshire poets read from their works at home and in the Dahlov Ipcar. 2003. grange hall. 1994. 60 minutes. VHS Alan Magee. 2002. Olive Pierce. 2002. Children of Iraq (Olive Pierce). 2002. William Thon. 2002. Renascence: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, one of Maine’s most famous writers. 1993. 58 minutes. DVD May Sarton: She Knew a Phoenix May Sarton reads some of her work and talks about the meaning Gayleen of her poetry, women’s roles and her views on feminism, and the source of her ability to write. 1980. 28 minutes. Vermont painter Gayleen Aiken illustrates days gone by: granite DVD PERF quarries, old country houses. A fi lm by Jay Craven. 1997. 30 minutes. VHS May Sarton: Woman of Letters Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver Last interview with writer May Sarton (1912-1995) including readings of her works. 1995. 30 minutes. VHS Renowned carver from Southwest Harbor, Maine. 1981. 25 minutes. VHS On My Own: Traditions of Daisy Turner Grace: A Portrait of Grace DeCarlton Ross Recollections, poems and stories of 102-year-old African American Independent fi lmmaker Huey traces Ross’ silent fi lm and dance woman from Grafton, Vermont. 1986. 28 minutes. VHS careers. 1983. 50 minutes. VHS PERF Honest Vision: A Portrait of Todd Webb Poem in Action A fi lm by Huey, Portland fi lmaker. A documentary about the Portrait of poet Vincent Ferrini from Gloucester, Massachussetts, photographer as told through the stories of Webb himself. and his commitment to the unity of art and life. 1990. 1996. 55 minutes. DVD 58 minutes. VHS In the Spirit of Haystack Portrait of George Hardy Noted craft school in Deer Isle, Maine. 1979. 10 minutes. Examination of relationship of a woodcarver with those who buy sound. DVD his works. Strong vision of life Down East. Winner of Cine Golden Eagle. A fi lm by Gabriel Coakley. 1995. 30 minutes. VHS James FitzGerald: A Painter’s Journey FitzGerald (1899-1971) came from Boston, lived on Monhegan Richard Estes: A Documentary Island, Maine. 1997. 57 minutes. VHS Contemporary photorealist describes his boyhood home in Illinois and his life as an artist in New York and Maine. 1998. MacDowell: An American Artists’ Colony 30 minutes. VHS Peterborough, New Hampshire refuge for poets, playwrights, composers, painters, sculptors and authors. Over the years, many Robert Frost’s New Hampshire famous artists created some of their greatest work there. In fact, more than 50 MacDowell colonists have won Pulitzer Prizes. This A tour of the locations which inspired the poet with video historical documentary provides an inside view of the Colony and adaptations of some of his most beloved poems. how it works. 1996. 60 minutes. VHS 2000. 40 minutes. DVD 4 Boats and the Sea American Challenge Alone Against the Atlantic Hollywood Comes to Vinalhaven: On-board story of seven solo sailors in the Observer Single-handed The Making of Deep Waters Trans Atlantic Race. 1982. 57 minutes. VHS Deep Waters, an adaptation of Ruth Moore’s Spoonhandle, was fi lmed on Vinalhaven Island off the coast of Maine in 1947. Fea- Around Cape Horn tured actors were Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero and Dean Stockwell. This documentary includes behind -the- scenes Captain Irving Johnson aboard the bark Peking. 1929. anecdotes, archival photographs and home movies, and reminis- 37 minutes. DVD cences from island residents old enough to have experienced the production and young enough to remember. 75 minutes. DVD Bluenose 1956 M.V. Bluenose cruise ship operated by Canadian National Rail- ways/ CN Marine between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and Bar Jenny’s Island Life Harbor, Maine, Maiden voyage January 1956 and “Bluenose Day” in Bar Harbor June 7, 1956.