Credit: Adelaide Pearson Collection, NHF
Adelaide Pearson Collection
Acc. Number:
0291, 0660, 1564
Creator:
creator, Adelaide Pearson
Date Range:
1932-01-01 - 1945-01-01
Primary Format:
film (8680 ft.) : si., b&w and col. ; 16 mm. reversal pos.
Summary:
Collection contains [Adelaide Pearson--home movies], scenes from "Bluehill" life drawing classes (1939-1945) and from Pearson's travels around the world. Footage shows community events such as the Blue Hill Fair, religious parades in New York, Florence and Paris, Hopi Indian dances in Arizona, and bull fights in Mexico. Reels of a trip to Asia includes footage of Mohandas Gandhi visiting an Indian village. Two reels, "Asiatic Potters," focus on pottery techniques and culture in India. Some of the films have intertitles. Collection also contains educational works produced in the 1930s by Castle Films, including Mayan Rites, San Francisco World's Fair and Coronation of King George VI.
Biographical/Historical:
Adelaide Pearson lived in Blue Hill and founded Rowantrees Pottery (Blue Hill) still in operation. Castle Films was formed in 1924, and became the leading distributor of short films marketed to home audiences. The company was sold to Universal in 1947.
Finding Aids:
The NHF database describes the contents of this collection in detail.
Genre:
Home movies and video
Locations:
Maine: Blue Hill. United States: Arizona; California (San Francisco); New York (New York). International: Africa; Asia; Ceylon; Caribbean; England; Europe; Guatemala; India; Indonesia; Japan; Mexico; Palestine; Panama.
People Depicted:
Mahatma Gandhi
Production Company:
Castle Films, Inc.