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The Conservation Center’s sub-freezing first floor comes on line. Storage consortium members move their collections to Bucksport and cold storage rental is also made available to nonprofits and individuals. Alan Kattelle pledges his amateur cinema technology collection to Northeast Historic Film and a museum committee begins its work. Cinema attendance jumps 20% over last year. NHF staff takes part in Home Movie Day III, the first at the Maine Historical Society. Graduate-level interns join us from the University of East Anglia, Nederlands Filmmuseum, and the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at NYU. The sixth annual Summer Film Symposium theme is “Amateur Fiction Film.” The Librarian of Congress names The Making of an American (1920) to the National Film Registry.
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| 2004 |
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The National Endowment for the Humanities awards a Stabilizing Humanities Collections grant to outfit the Conservation Center and to create an archival storage consortium of nonprofit organizations. Roundtable III includes Native Studies, metadata, and student rights, safety and privacy. The fifth annual Symposium, Moving Image as Biography, draws stellar presenters including Marée Delofski from Australia. The Institute for Museum and Library Services makes a grant to Simmons College Graduate School of Library Services and NHF to create a Digital Video Library Toolkit. Internet video sales double from 2003; VHS sales are largely replaced by DVD sales.
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| 2003 |
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The new Conservation Center building rises. We present our first screening at the Library of Congress Pickford Theater. Roundtable II focuses on online Social Studies Maine content, with a panel on the Wabanaki Curriculum Commission. We hold the fourth annual Symposium, Toward Access, Interpretation and Understanding, the Northeast Silent Film Festival, and take part in the first Home Movie Day. Our founders receive the Constance H. Carlson Award for exemplary service to the Humanities.
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| 2002 |
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Conservation Center groundbreaking takes place in June. The Online Collections Guide debuts, a searchable database funded by the Davis Family Foundation. We host the first annual Roundtable, on iMovie and Archival footage, for the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (all 7th and 8th graders receive MacIntosh iBooks). Cineric film laboratory makes a major pro bono gift. From Stump to Ship is named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress.
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| 2001 |
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NEH Challenge Grants makes a $500,000 award to help complete the capital campaign; funds to be divided between establishing an endowment fund and construction of the Conservation Center. Renovations bring new safe floors to the front of the building. Video streaming starts on Road Runner of Maine.
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| 2000 |
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The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation and Pentagoet support the capital campaign, joined by many others. The Northeast Silent Film Festival debuts with a Summer Symposium. The Library of Congress National Film Preservation Tour draws people of all ages for classic films.
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| 1999 |
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The Alamo Theatre opens for regular movies on May 1. Film preservation events sell out including Mary Pickford in Daddy Long Legs and Easy Rider. Collections grow with 85 new moving-image accessions and significant ephemera and equipment collections.
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| 1998 |
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The Education Committee completes a mission statement. The auditorium in the Alamo Theatre is functionally completed. NHF joins a consortium of moving image archives awarded a major preservation and access grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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| 1997 |
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The auditorium is constructed and made ready for outfitting. Champion International Corporation makes the initial substantial donation to kick off the capital campaign.
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| 1996 |
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The Maine Mall and Burlington Square Mall host the Going to the Movies exhibition, along with more than 20 talks by film scholars-and film with an orchestra conducted by Gillian Anderson. 1100 people attend a screening of Charlie Chaplin's The Circus at the Flynn Theatre in Burlington, Vermont.
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| 1995 |
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The Collections Guide is published with information on 200 collections. Rick Prelinger screens films, one of many archivists and filmmakers speaking and/or lending prints and videotapes. Arts consultant Bruce Hazard studies and submits recommendations on organizational management.
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| 1994 |
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Going to the Movies, the social history of movie going project, receives a grant of $185,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create an interpretive history exhibition based on original research and to offer lectures and screenings.
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| 1993 |
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The Kellogg and the Davis Family Foundations make grants to help renovate the building. Construction starts in the mud basement. National Video Resources funds a project to expand video distribution.
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| 1992 |
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The Alamo Theatre building is auctioned. NHF members and friends pledge enough to bid and buy the building for $37,500. The gutted space becomes home to the archives and quickly opens to the public with a 16mm film screening series and potluck suppers.
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| 1991 |
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Videotape distribution takes off with the first "catalog" in Moving Image Review - 14 titles. Video Loan Service, a free video loan service, also starts - with 31 titles. (In 2000 there will be more than 300.)
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| 1990 |
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Grant support increases with funding from the Maine Humanities Council for Going to the Movies: A Social History of Motion Pictures in Maine Communities. A National Alliance of Media Arts Centers-funded study helps management planning.
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| 1989 |
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The Board votes to create a membership program - emphasizing connections and affordability. Staff members participate in conferences, discussing amateur footage and becoming leaders in this field. University of Maine management study helps develop a plan for NHF's future.
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| 1988 |
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Cooperative work with other archives results in restoration of the 1921 The Seventh Day with the Museum of Modern Art, and repatriation of the 1909 A Sailor's Sacrifice from England. The first Moving Image Review is published.
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| 1987 |
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Television newsfilm is a focus with the Bangor Historical Society/WABI Collection of 16mm film. The archives convenes an advisory group, and launches an educational pilot project.
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| 1986 |
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Visits to film archives around the country encourage the creation of a regional archives. Northeast Historic Film is incorporated in Maine; the Board meets for the first time with just three members: historian David C. Smith, film archivist Pam Wintle, and David Weiss.
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| 1985 |
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Karan Sheldon and David Weiss work for the University of Maine on the preservation and tour of From Stump to Ship: A 1930 Logging Film. The experience reveals the need to find, preserve, and make accessible deteriorating, neglected film.
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