Browse Items (8 total)

  • Creator is exactly "Northeast Historic Film (Organization)"
  • OR Alt Author is exactly "Northeast Historic Film (Organization)"

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

Moving Image / In-house Use Only

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

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

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

Earliest Maine films [videorecording]

Moving Image / In-house Use Only

"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