Movie Queen

Margaret Cram and other itinerant women directors made Movie Queen films in the 1930s. Movie Queen, Lubec was shot on the coast of Maine and preserved by Northeast Historic Film.

Adelaide Pearson Films Gandhi

Adelaide Pearson traveled the world filming potters to inform her Maine pottery business. In India she met Mahatma Gandhi, in 1936 shooting what may be the first color footage of him.

Kids in Space

Mission: Alpha Centauri is a science fiction film made in 1967 by an 8th Grade class in Blue Hill, Maine. Lost in Space and Star Trek likely inspired their work

Who We Are

Culture, Identity presents our mission in selections from 20 of our collections. Marshall Dodge calls out the train route from Bucksport, and you hear him again talking to a lobster.

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In the NHF store: A Downeast Smile In, Marshall Dodge

From Stump to Ship

Sustainable forestry -- before roads, trucks, and chainsaws. An amateur industrial film by the owner of Maine's Machias Lumber Co., Alfred Ames. In 1930, his schooner shipped building supplies to New York.

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Aug

Uncovering the 1939 World's Fair

I haven’t even been here for two weeks yet, as the first William O'Farrell Fellowship recipient, and already it has been full of...

posted in Caitlin McGrath, collections, Collections, fellowship, research by Caitlin

Aug

New oldfilm.org

Welcome to our new site. We hope you take a minute to explore. There are a number of new features including video, a blog, and enhanced collection records. Out of all the new features, I am...

posted in Alamo Theatre, collections, Events, video, Website by David

Aug

Film Archiving

posted in David Weiss, Film, Photos, Preservation by Gemma

Aug

Collections Management

For the past year NHF has been working with Whirl-i-gig to create a custom Collective Access (CA) database...

posted in Cataloging, migration, PBCore, Preservation by Gemma

Aug

Giant cassette player

Last week NHF received an equipment donation from the Brooklin Keeping Society. One was very useful, namely an 8mm projector, but one with lots of bells and whistles (8mm, Super8, and sound...

posted in audio, cassette, Collections, donation, equipment, Home Movie Day, projector by David

Aug

Maine Community Foundation grant received

NHF is pleased to announce that we have received a grant from the Maine Community Foundation to create three new compilations from our collections. This is a great opportunity to show the...

posted in compilations, digitization, foundation, grant, Preservation by Jessica

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