Aesthetics of Amateur Film

New book, Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960. Essays by a dozen authors—with online viewing of titles from NHF Collections , www.oldfilm.org/amm. Indiana University Press, 2017 and available from bookstores, Amazon, B&N, Google Play, iBooks.

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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.

Camp Chewonki Collection

The Camp Chewonki Collection consists of two reels shot in the 1940s depicting daily summer camp activities at Camp Chewonki in Wiscasset, Maine. Chewonki is a boys camp in operation since 1915 that continues to operate today.

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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

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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Visit The Woman Behind The Camera

We, and our partners, the Lesbian Home Movie Project and the Chicago Film Archives have been working away on a major new project. It will be complete by the end of 2018 but you can get a sneak peek by reading some of the blog posts about it.

http://womanbehindthecamera.org/home

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