Maine’s Home Movies

Home movies open a window into the minds of early filmmakers - wives, mothers, husbands, friends. 
This is an essay film built from home movies, exploring Maine’s twentieth century seasonal life and sense of place. Seen today, they are a collaboration with ghosts - a look back in time that is also a recognition.
CHAPTERS (56:46 min. total):  
  • Looking at You: Many Faces of Maine
  • Winter Logging with Horses on Snow. Upper Kennebec Valley, 1930s
  • Unexpected: Flirtation by a Lake. 1916
  • Building of the Mollymauk: Birth of a Lobster Boat. Harpswell, 1955
  • Saltwater Farm: E.B. White’s Family Farm. North Brooklin, 1930s - 1940s
  • Blue Boat: Day at the Beach. Kennebunkport, 1961
  • Spring Fever: Horses Run Wild. Upper Kennebec Valley, 1930s - 1940s
  • Family Album. Hiram, 1938
  • Ice Fishing: How-To. Palermo, 1937 - 1939
  • Moxie Falls: River Drivers Breaking up a Logjam. West Forks, 1930s
  • Sardines: Fishing around Mount Desert Island. 1930s - 1940s
  • Summer Camp: Wohelo Girls’ Camp. South Casco, 1926
  • Haying & Threshing Oats. Kennebec Valley, 1930s 
  • Staff At The Harborside Inn. Northeast Harbor, 1920s
  • Grange/Fair: Draft Horse Team Pulls. Branch Mills, 1939
  • Visiting Friends: An Abandoned Collection Found At a Dump. 1937
  • Lake Afternoons: Couples. East Orland, 1939
  • Picnics: Lobsterbakes on the Rocks, Picnics in the Woods
  • Dancers
  • Carnival: Winter Party on the Ice. Lucerne, 1935
  • Goodbyes

    Maine Public Broadcasting premiere.

    Drawn from the collections at Northeast Historic Film, a nonprofit film archives in Bucksport, Maine which holds and preserves 10 million feet of amateur films and home movies.
 

Northeast Historic Film (NHF) is a nonprofit archives dedicated to the collection, preservation and sharing of home movies, amateur films and news footage, from and about New England. NHF is Maine’s largest archives of film covering the gamut of life in New England since the invention of film itself. 

Thirty-three years ago the archives were born in a Blue Hill chicken coop, moving later to the 1916 Alamo Theatre in Bucksport. The archives houses Bucksport’s movie theatre and a state-of-the-art vault with temperature and climate controls. 

To see old films, and to help preserve them,  please go to: oldfilm.org