Browse Items (66 total)

  • Format is exactly "Videotape"

Ride the Sandy River Railroad [videorecording]

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For more than 50 years, Franklin County, Maine, enjoyed the best two foot gauge railroad in the country. The Sandy River Line ran from 1879 until 1935. Fortunately, a group of railroad enthusiasts was frequenting the line near its end, filming and…

Collection: Video Library

Old Sturbridge Village [videorecording] : Growing up in New England

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Explore New England in the 1830's through the eyes of Sarah and her brother Jonathan. As their everyday family tasks and errands take them from their home on the farm into the Center Village, they glimpse the adult world which they will soon enter.

Collection: Video Library

Thrills and spills in the North Country! [videorecording] / New England Ski Museum ; produced and directed by Rick Moulton ; written by Michael Campbell

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Uses historic film footage and interviews to give a history of alpine skiing and related snow sports in New England. Shows early ski jumping and early downhill racing. Describes the introduction of the rope tow, and how equipment improvements led to…

Collection: Video Library

The Trees still grow [videorecording] : a video history of Berlin New Hampshire

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Joining former loggers, mill workers, historians and environmentalists as they relive the colorful past, this program tells the history of how Berlin grew from a small logging town to a diverse and progressive city, where French-Canadian, Irish,…

Collection: Video Library

The Symphonic Organ Society presents [videorecording] : Mr. Skinner's home movies : a compilation of the Skinner family's 16 mm silent films / a Heckelphone production.

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Contents: The Skinner organ factory : personnel, pipe-casting, voicing and demonstrations ; an annual staff picnic -- Travels at home and abroad : Niagara Falls, Yosemite Valley, California and Hawaii ; remarkable footage from England and France in…

Collection: Video Library

Tourism and historic preservation [videorecording]

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Presents the case for historic preservation as an economic plus in attracting tourists whose money then creates jobs and prosperity. St. Louis, Birmingham, and Seattle's restorations are featured, among others.

Collection: Video Library

Ski clubs and winter carnivals in Maine [videorecording] : The Pineland Ski Club, the Chisholm Ski Club

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Film made by the John G. Howe about the Pineland Ski Club (Andover, Maine) and the Chisholm Ski Club (Rumford, Maine).

Collection: Video Library

Wabanaki [videorecording] : a new dawn / Acadia Film Video ; presented by the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission

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This video "shows the quest for cultural survival by today's Wabanaki ... The voices in the video offer hope that the Wabanaki will use their cultural and spiritual inheritance to survive and thrive in the third millennium."

Collection: Video Library

Dead River rough cut [videorecording] / Richard Searles and Stuart Silverstein

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Profiles two woodsmen, Bob Wagg and Walter Lane, who have chosen isolation and self-dependence as their lifestyle in a tarpaper shack on the Dead River in northern Maine. Shows them hunting, trapping, and logging trees with a team of oxen, and…

Collection: Video Library

Timber is a crop. [videorecording] : pulpwood harvesting in the 1940s and 1950s

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Collection of informational films about pulpwood harvesting in New England from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s.

Contents: Pulpwood for today and tomorrow (1948) -- Timber is a crop (1945) -- The forest and woodsman (1951, rev. 1964)

Collection: Video Library

A good place to call home [videorecording] : Maine towns creating their future

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Provides an insightful look at a number of Maine towns whose natural resources and quality of life were threatened by unplanned development. It portrays people who have worked to shape the future of their communities through sound planning and growth…

Collection: Video Library

The journey to Palomar [videorecording] : America's first journey into space : a film / written, produced and directed by Todd and Robin Mason ; cinematography by Todd Mason ; edited by Todd and Robin Mason ; computer graphics, Todd Mason.

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"George Ellery Hale's epic quest to unravel the secrets of the cosmos, culminating with the construction in the 1930s and '40s of his million-pound 'Glass Giant' of Palomar--the Hale 200-inch Telescope"

Collection: Video Library

Penobscot [videorecording] : the people and their river / a film by Gunnar Hansen, David Westphal ; [produced by] Acadia Film and Penobscot Indian Nation

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Describes the history of the relationship between the Penobscot Indians and the river that shares their name, and the efforts to combat the effects of pollution on the river and the Indian's traditional way of life.

Collection: Video Library

Barns [videorecording] : legacy of wood & stone

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Provides a tour of historic barns of Vermont including weathervanes, cupolas, haymows, and silos. Includes information on how barns are restored and visits a barn raising.

Collection: Video Library

Home [2000 series] [videorecording] : the story of Maine / Maine Public Television ; executive producer, Katherine E. Arno ; producers, Tami Kennedy, Bob Libbey, Chris Sweet, Ann Wright

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Contents: A Love for the land -- The Nation's playground -- Trails, rails, and roads -- Power lines

Collection: Video Library

Over New England [videorecording] / KCTS Television ; producer/writer/editor, Jeff Gentes

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An airborne journey over the six-state region's landscapes and landmarks. Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont are included.

Collection: Video Library

Working in rural New England [videorecording] / produced by Hampshire Films, Hampshire College and Old Sturbridge Village ; produced and directed by Ken Burns.

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This film examines the work roles of men and women in a typical New England farming community during the post-Revolutionary years, from 1790-1840. It was filmed at Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts.

Collection: Video Library