News From the archives
Continuing work with televison
A grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to Northeast Historic Film is now supporting work on digitizing and fully cataloguing Maine television collections that include Maine Public Broadcasting, Maine Public Television and about a dozen collections. Yeah! And what a lot of words into a very long sentence for such good
New Year, Old Film and Getting Here from There
The year is winding down, and so is my work on the WCVB/CLIR collection grant that includes broadcasts during the late 1970s, & 1980s and early & 1990s. There is still quite a bit to digitize and abstract, but we at NHF are close to reaching our grant-funded goals. The project’s work is complicated, and
Computers, A look at the future from 1982
Mid-January weather in Maine brought the usual opportunities for working at home, and I found myself sliding into a series of late 1982 WCVB Chronicles to abstract that included Acc. 2716.2023, December 6, 1982. It is a look at the new development of the personal computer and what this tool can do for the individual
The Old As New
The WCVB Chronicles’ Main Streets and Back Roads series transported me this year to the northern most corner of Aroostook County during potato harvest season and taught me something about forest management there while I reviewed the 1980s and 90s tapes we are preparing for uploading in the archive. I also learned about boat building,
2021/2022
Everything is back to normal-ish! Thanks to many generous people, and a lot of furious grant writing, Northeast Historic Film is doing business as usual and everything is just the same, only different. Let me explain. First of all, the staff is all still here. Despite the difficulties, getting furloughed and all that, everyone stayed
Amateur Movie Making
Edited by Martha J. McNamara and Karan Sheldon A compelling regional and historical study that transforms our understanding of film history, Amateur Movie Making demonstrates how amateur films and home movies stand as testaments to the creative lives of ordinary people, enriching our experience of art and the everyday. Here we encounter the lyrical and visually expressive
