Browse Items (71 total)

  • Collection: Video Library

A Visit with Norman Gray [videorecording]

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Norman Gray discusses his memories of logging in Maine in the 1930s. Includes many photographs taken by Gray.

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

All but forgotten [videorecording] : Holman Francis Day, filmmaker

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The End to a Perfect Day, Fryeburg Maine [videorecording]

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"FRYEBURG SESQUICENTENNIAL / 1927 / PRESENTED BY FRYEBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY"

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

The Flute player [videorecording]

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Documentary about the life and work of Cambodian genocide survivor, Arn Chorn-Pond. Shows his attempts to bring Cambodia's once outlawed traditional music back to the Cambodian people. Also features members of the Cambodian Master Performers Program.

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Bethel, Maine, and all over [videorecording] : The home movies of Ralph Hall and others

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Description from DVD case: This DVD contains home movies shot with a 16 mm camera by longtime Bethel resident Ralph Hall. It also contains footage of some of Bethel's earliest "Living Nativity" events taken by unidentified persons. The films on this…

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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).

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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…

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Stihl Timbersports Series #99007 [videorecording] : Branson Finals

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Collection: Video Library

Stihl Timbersports Series #99002 [videorecording] : Dollywood 2

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Stihl Timbersports Series #99006 [videorecording] : Osh Kosh #3

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Collection: Video Library

Into the White Mountains [videorecording] : The romantic invention of scenic tourism

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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

Our stories [videorecording] : At the center of things [East Bethel, Maine]

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Discusses the Hastings dairy farm in East Bethel.

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White Mountains [videorecording] / New Hampshire Movies / the beauty, the fun, the adventure of the White Mountains

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Woodsmen and river drivers [videorecording] : "Another day, another era" / Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

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Earliest Maine films [videorecording]

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"EARLIEST MAINE FILMS / 1. LOGGING IN MAINE, 1906 / Length - 12 min. / 2. A TROUT FISHING TRIP TO THE RANGELEY LAKES, 1906 Length - 9 min. / 3. DRAWING A LOBSTER POT, 1902 / Length - 30 sec. / Silent, Black & White"

Collection: Video Library

Ice harvesting sampler [videorecording]

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Five short silent films from the 1920s-1940s showing a near-forgotten New England industry.

Contents: Everett Johnson Collection. Long Pond-South Portland, Maine. 1943 -- Robert Taylor Collection. East Andover, Mass. 1927 -- Good Will-Hinckley…

Collection: Video Library

King spruce [videorecording]

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A circa 1940 look at pulpwood harvesting and river driving. Pulp cutters demonstrate, in great detail, their tools and techniques.

Collection: Video Library

The Land of Norumbega [videorecording] : Maine in the age of exploration and settlement

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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

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

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

Weatherwatch [videorecording] : the life and times of the Mount Washington Observatory

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Collection: Video Library