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.

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• Orphans Film Symposium
  

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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• In the NHF store
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Join Northeast Historic Film and Wooden Boat Publications at the inaugural International Maritime Film Festival (IMFF.) IMFF is a juried contest of films celebrating the heritage, spirit of adventure, and ingenuity of boats and waterborne pursuits. Festival weekend is September 30-October 2, 2016 at the Alamo Theatre. Learn more and buy tickets at maritimefilmfestival.com