Archived Events & Projects
Summer Film Symposia
Since 2000, Northeast Historic Film has organized an annual themed gathering devoted to the history, theory, and preservation of moving images. The Symposium is noted for bringing together archivists, scholars, and artists in an intimate setting.
- 2000 Film Preservation, Study and Use
- 2001 Home Movies and Privacy
- 2002 Close Readings: Seeing Amateur Films in Important Ways
- 2003 Toward Access, Interpretation and Understanding
- 2004 The Moving Images as Biography
- 2005 Amateur Fiction Films
- 2006 The Working Life
- 2007 Time Out: Images of Play and Leisure
- 2008 City and Country
- 2009 Ways of Watching
- 2010 Filmic Representations of Indigenous Peoples
- 2011 Das Wunderkino: A Cinematic Cabinet of Curiosities
- 2012 Wunderkino 2: On The Varieties of Cinematic Experience
- 2013 Wunderkino 3: Visions of Travel and Mobility
- 2014 Wunderkino 4: Visions of House and Home
- 2015 Wunderkino 5: Moving Images of War and Peace
- 2016 Screening New England: 100 Years of Regional Moving Images
- 2017 Regional Moving Image Collections and Archives in the 21st Century
- 2018 The Political / The Personal: the Global and Local Function of Regional Media
- 2019 A is for Amateur
- 2020 Cancelled
- 2021 Cancelled
- 2022 Cancelled
- 2023 Technology, Invention, Tinkerers, and Gadgets
- 2024 Off Year
- 2025 Stay Tuned!
Roundtables
From 2002 to 2004, Northeast Historic Film hosted an educators’ Roundtable to support Maine’s Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), which provided laptop computers to all 7th and 8th grade public school students and teachers. To learn more about Maine’s digital learning initiative, visit Maine Learns.
Multimedia from Fogler Library, the Maine Folklife Center, Northeast Historic Film, Maine State Museum, Maine State Archives, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, and Maine Historical Society provide resources relating to Maine history and Gulf of Maine ecology. Windows on Maine was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and directed by Marilyn Lutz. There are 42 streaming and downloadable clips from NHF relating to the project themes here, with selections from the Branch and Gilbert Collection added later (see Finding and Using Moving Images in Context).
Northeast Historic Film provided digital video excerpts for an online project begun in 2004 at Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Gary Geisler, University of Texas, Austin, project director: Open Video Digital Library Toolkit is intended to provide museums, libraries and other institutions holding moving image collections tools to more easily create Web-based digital video libraries. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and released as an open source product under the MIT License. Runs on Linux or Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 based on a Ruby on Rails framework with MySQL as the database management system.
Moving Things was the front page theme for Northeast Historic Film’s clips used as a demonstration.
