Events

In mid-November, Northeast Historic Film’s Executive Director David Weiss, Board Member and co-founder Karan Sheldon, Media Specialist Karin Carlson, and Media Cataloger Brian Graney will travel to Austin, Texas, for the Annual Conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists.  Since 1991, AMIA has convened a diverse international community of moving image archivists, preservation professionals, students, and friends of the field for this annual forum on audiovisual preservation and access.  T

Great article from the Smithsonian featuring our own Brian Graney about the origins and importance of Home Movie.

Hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and blizzards... Mother Nature can be a bit unpredictable.  As the saying goes here in Maine, “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute and it will change.”

The scenery in Maine is beautiful, but the weather can be harsh. Here is a sneak peek at some of the historic footage we will be showing at Maine Home Movie Day on October 15, from 1-4pm, at the Maine Historical Society in Portland. 

Home Movie Day 2011 is coming!

Mark your calendars for October 15th.

Once again we'll be at the Maine Historical Society in Portland from 1-4pm.

The public is invited to bring in their films and video for evaluation and to screen (if you'd like). NHF technical services will be on-hand to provide inspection, projection and answer questions about your home movies.

The Camden International Film Festival is just around the corner and NHF will again be part of the Made in Maine Showcase on Saturday, October 1 (10:30 am) at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, ME.  Join us as we look at moving image treaures from our collections as they relate to working waterfronts in Maine.  A few of the collections that we will be pulling from:

Last weekend we were invited to screen In Our Wake: Maine's Maritime Heritage on Film as part of the Penobscot Bay Rendezvous in Camden. I was fortunate to spend Friday evening in the amphitheatre with a group of boating enthusiasts who enjoyed the variety of clips on the screen.  Their reactions to each scene again proved to me why it is so important to preserve the moving images of our part.  The content is rich and meaninful and conveys emotions that simply cannot be captured in any other medium.

For the second year in a row, Amy and Curt Smith of Jumpstart Preschool and Daycare chose to bring their students to NHF to celebrate Earth Day. The children ranged from 3 to 13 and arrived with wagons and rakes and shovels. With the help of Frank Berry, Lisa Drake and Ray Monreal they weeded and turned over flower beds, raked bushels of leaves, moved a forest of brush and a mountain of sand.

On Saturday, October 16, Northeast Historic Film co-hosted Maine Home Movie Day from 1pm until 4pm at the Maine Historical Society in Portland.  We were very pleased to have about thirty visitors, eight of whom brought in films to be inspected and screened.  That afternoon we screened 8mm, Super8 and 16mm films; some of the film content was familiar to the owner, and some films were unknown surprises.  This was my first Home Movie Day, and I was thrilled to be a part of it.

What is a moving image archives doing at Maine's largest agricultural fair? The sign on the side of the Farm Museum states, “Old Maine Films.” We have a cozy space in the furthest corner of the museum. We are set up like a little theater. It's one of the few places on the fairgrounds where you can just come sit inside without having to buy some sort of barbecued meat.