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| ♦ In Our Wake: Maine's Maritime Heritage on Film ♦ |
| ♦ Endowment Challenge Grant ♦ |
| ♦ Alamo Facade Renovation ♦ |
| ♦2008 NFPF Grant ♦ |
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In Our Wake: Maine's Maritime Heritage on Film
Two additional shows announced:
May 5 at the Stonington Opera House at 7pm
May 29 at Waterman's Community Center on North Haven at 7:30pm
Northeast Historic Film and Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors are pleased to announce our first-ever joint maritime film program, designed to highlight the state’s rich coastal culture.
From lobster pots and four-masted schooners to rescues at sea and fishing for tuna, the films step back in time to 1902 and then travel through the decades to explore Maine’s nautical past. Through the use of home movies, travelogues, silents, and talkies, these moving pictures examine our state’s boats, harbors and people, with live commentary provided and lively audience participation encouraged.
“I love historic still photography, but these movies are really magic. Seeing our ancestors in motion at work and at play is both humbling and inspiring,” said John Hanson, publisher of Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors magazine.
The program will include Drawing a Lobster Pot from March 1901, which is the oldest film shot in the state of Maine that NHF has found to date. The film Launching of the Doris Hamlin shows the launch of a four-masted schooner in Harrington in 1919. The credits mention a man named Frye and describe him as the youngest ship builder in the world at the time. From Stump to Ship was shot in Machias in the 1930s, and documents the logging operations of the era, from felling trees in winter to shipping finished wood products to market.
David Weiss, Executive Director of Northeast Historic Film, said, “These are just a few of the pieces that will be shown during this on-screen journey. We are thrilled to work with MBH&H and know that this collaboration will lead to more great adventures. Please join us and lend your expertise -- the audience will be invited to tell us what they know about the boats and locations shown in the film clips.”
Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors has published the premier magazine about life on the Maine coast since 1987. The magazine is noted for its eclectic award-winning coverage of all aspects of coastal living. As the name implies, it covers Maine’s fine boats, homes, art, food, people, natural world, and history five times per year. The company also produces the award-winning MaineBoats.com website, and the annual Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show on the waterfront in Rockland (August 13-15, 2010). Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors: In Print. Online. In Person.
Northeast Historic Film collects, preserves, and makes accessible the moving-image history of northern New England. The non-profit organization is known for representing the world of film to local and regional communities through screenings of culturally and historically significant film and video as well as of titles that are in commercial release. NHF runs a community cinema in the 1916 Alamo Theatre in Bucksport, and maintains cold-storage vaults that hold thousands of hours of videotape and more than 10 million feet of film. Visit NHF online at oldfilm.org or in person on Main Street in Bucksport.
Help Meet NHF's Endowment Challenge
Maine Community Foundation
President Henry Schmelzer (r)
congratulates David Weiss in front
of the Alamo Theatre.
We are happy to report that through the generosity of our supporters, we have met the Maine Community Foundation Endowment Challenge.
Northeast Historic Film was honored in September 2008 with a $25,000 endowment challenge grant from the Maine Community Foundation. This was a one-to-one matching opportunity: to support our endowment we had to raise $25,000 in new funds by April 2010, resulting in $50,000 of endowment dollars.
Executive Director David Weiss says, “Endowment donors are those who have the longest perspective on the value of the historical and cultural resources created by NHF. An endowment is money that is never spent; the donations are carefully invested so that earnings help support the programs of the organization indefinitely.”
Your gift to match the Maine Community Foundation endowment challenge is needed, particularly in these times, for institutional security. Donated operating funds, project grants, and earned income do not provide the level of assurance required to guarantee the permanent preservation of our region’s historical record. A guaranteed source of funds provided by an endowment demonstrates commitment to the long term.
Please give today with a donation of cash, a pledge, or a memorial gift. Call David Weiss at 207-469-0924, or email. Endowment Donors will receive permanent recognition in the Alamo Theatre lobby and on www.oldfilm.org.
Ways to Give: www.oldfilm.org/pledging
Alamo Theatre Facade Before & After,
NHF Photo
Thanks to the generous support of friends, members, a $20,000 gift from the Davis Family Foundation, and a Maine Community Enterprise grant awarded by the Town of Bucksport, Northeast Historic Film was able to complete the renovation of the Alamo Theatre's facade in December. Personalized bricks purchased by donors to the project have been installed around the Theatre's Main Street entrance.
Click on the image above to see a larger image of the new brickwork.
Northeast Historic Film has been awarded a $12,600 cash grant by the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve three reels from The Joan Branch Collection. The films were shot by Joan Branch's father, Joseph Swan and her grandfather, Forest Colby, who lived in Bingham, Maine and was Maine Forest Commisioner and State Senator in the early 1900s. Joan's father, Joseph Swan, was an investment banker whose company, Swan Culberston and Fritz, are credited with bringing the New York Stock Exchange to China. The films NFPF has funded for preservation include home movies and travelogues of a time when they were living in Shanghai from 1931 to 1936. The grant will provide new 16mm Black and White negatives, Black and White and Color prints and BetaSP and DVD copies .