Movie Queen

Margaret Cram and other itinerant women directors made Movie Queen films in the 1930s. Movie Queen, Lubec was shot on the coast of Maine and preserved by Northeast Historic Film.

Adelaide Pearson Films Gandhi

Adelaide Pearson traveled the world filming potters to inform her Maine pottery business. In India she met Mahatma Gandhi, in 1936 shooting what may be the first color footage of him.

Kids in Space

Mission: Alpha Centauri is a science fiction film made in 1967 by an 8th Grade class in Blue Hill, Maine. Lost in Space and Star Trek likely inspired their work

Who We Are

Culture, Identity presents our mission in selections from 20 of our collections. Marshall Dodge calls out the train route from Bucksport, and you hear him again talking to a lobster.

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In the NHF store: A Downeast Smile In, Marshall Dodge

From Stump to Ship

Sustainable forestry -- before roads, trucks, and chainsaws. An amateur industrial film by the owner of Maine's Machias Lumber Co., Alfred Ames. In 1930, his schooner shipped building supplies to New York.

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May

The Second Largest World’s Fair of All Time

The New York World's Fair 1939-1940 from Northeast Historic Film on Vimeo.

1,216 acres of ash dump reclaimed by Robert Moses in Queens, NY. “The eyes of the Fair are on the future — not in the sense of peering toward the unknown nor attempting to foretell the events of tomorrow and the shape of things to come, but in the sense of presenting a new and clearer view of today....” Cyrus Pinkham, the filmmaker, shot these bucolic scenes of technology and automobiles, ducks and tourists,...

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May

A Shining City in the Distant Future - 1939-1940 World's Fair

Crowds turned out in their best to wander among the futuristic buildings and showrooms of the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair. This beautifully-shot home movie shows the architecture of Theme Center, General Motors and other buildings, in Corona Park, Queens. Cyrus Pinkham, the filmmaker, worked as a Rockefeller Center tour guide in New York in the 30s. He would have known his way to the Fair. He was borne in Rockland in 1915, but lived much of his early life in Maryland and New...

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May

“That Was Railroading” in Maine, 1979

“That Was Railroading” in Maine, 1979 from Northeast Historic Film on Vimeo.

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Ed Quinn shoveled snow at the Grand Trunk Railroad/Portland Yard, winter of 1935. He never left. Ed Quinn’s family started railroading in 1847, when his great-great-grandfather and the seven sons built the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, Portland, Maine. More on the Grand Trunk Railway (”Some call it the CN”):...

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Apr

A Summer Regatta in Maine, 1934

A Summer Regatta in Maine, 1934 from Northeast Historic Film on Vimeo.

Summer Regattas, Peter’s Cove, Blue Hill, Maine, 1934. Alida Donnell Milliken Camp filmed a 1934 sailing regatta and many other summertime activities, spending every summer of her life on the coast of Maine. The setting of this sunny, cloudless day is the yacht club started by her father in 1924, to teach sailing to his children. 83 years later, the Kollegewidgwok...

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Movies playing at the Alamo Theatre

A talk by author and former Maine game warden, John Ford Sr.

Thu 24 May, 6:30 pm

WELCOME TO LEE MAINE generously sponsored by UNITED STEELWORKERS LOCAL 1188

Sun 27 May, 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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Summer Camps

In northern New England, the youth summer camping tradition has provided outdoor experiences for young people for over 100 years. The camps are often on lakes and many have been run by the same families for several generations.