Online Exhibits

North Woods Dramas: The Forgotten Genre

From the teens through the twenties, many movies were set in the north woods, the Northwest, and beyond... This online exhibit features a selection of posters from that era.

Selections from an extensive collection of postcards featuring photographs of places that showed movies in northern New England.

We invite you to visit the 40-foot mural located in our Alamo Theatre depicting the different type of theaters that shown movies in northern New England.

Exhibits are self guided and are available for viewing during our regular business hours, Monday through Friday 9am to 4pm, and during regularly scheduled movies and presentations, normally scheduled Friday and Saturday evenings and Sundays at 2pm. Call Bill for more information at 1(800) 639-1636 or email  bill@oldfilm.org.

The first floor exhibit area currently contains an exhibit featuring Maine Theatre images from the Q. David Bowers Postcard Collection.  This collection contains over 5,000 images of theatres from all 50 states.

Also featured is an exhibit of amateur filmmaking equipment from the Alan & Natelie Kattelle Collection.  The Kattelle Equipment Collection is perhaps the most comprehensive of its kind in the country.  Over 800 items document the the evolution of the amatuer filmmaking industry from the extremely rare 1902 Vitak Projector to the camera that shot home movies of you!

Ephemera from the Alamo Theatre's 90 year history is the subject of another exhibit.  Photos, programs, tickets, correspondance and artefacts tell the story of this Main Street movie theater.

A kiosk exhibit explores the social history of movie going in northern New England.  This exhibit was prepared with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

And throughout the space you will find rare and unusual equipment ranging from a mutoscope (hand cranked peep show device which still works and features Eve and her version of a "wardrobe malfunction" from 1907) to a refrigerated art deco candy counter and an early carbon arc 16mm projector.

We also tour schools, shopping malls, fairs and other public spaces. Each Fall we are at the Fryeburg Fair in the Farm Museum. Come by and see us. Read more about the Fryeburg Fair. www.fryeburgfair.com