Northeastern
Forest Products Equipment Expo
Bangor, Maine, May 1-2
The Northeastern Forest Products Equipment Expo is the
premier logging, sawmilling, and pallet equipment show
in the Northeast. In our usual perch in the Bangor Civic
Center among tires, skidders, and safety equipment, NHF
sold titles from our Videos of Life in New England
line to the attendees who are happy to have a chance to
buy audiovisual recordings that reflect their logging
heritage.
Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show
Rockland, Maine, August 7-9
At the request of John Hanson, Jr., publisher of the magazine
Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, we created
a one-hour compilation of nautical clips from the archives.
We showed it throughout the weekend, along with nautical
themed titles from Videos of Life in New England
distribution videos. (Many of them would be wonderful
holiday gifts for your friends and relations!) Many people
stopped by our booth to talk about care for and transfer
of their home movies. The event brought more than 8,500
people to Rockland from across the state, New England,
and beyond. The show, whose theme was “Tradition
Shapes Innovation,” featured Maine-built products.
Maine Fare
Camden, Maine September 10
This gastronomy fest showcased regional food from farm
to table with chef demonstrations, panel discussions,
workshops, food and beverage tastings, author signings,
and dinners. The event was designed to communicate the
importance of preserving, protecting, and sharing Maine’s
culinary history, which is how NHF fit into the picture.
The organizers of the event asked
us to pull together clips about food in Maine. We created
a compilation, Lobster Bakes, Blueberries, and Broilers:
Collections from Northeast Historic Film, for screening
at the Camden Amphitheatre, a park on the public library
grounds overlooking Camden Harbor. The audience enjoyed
Adventures in Eating (1961)
from the Jean Hawes Collection showing an island shore
dinner and the how-to’s of a chicken barbeque, a
1930 Maine promotional film about blueberries from start
to finish, and a TV ad showing how Nissen English muffins
are so very handy for creamed leftovers.
Camden International Film Festival Farnsworth
Museum
Rockland, Maine, October 3
The five-year-old Camden International Film Festival
has earned a reputation for screening the best independent
documentary films, attracting intelligent audiences and
serving great food by the sea.
NHF
documents life in northern New England. So, for the second
year, we were asked to enhance the program theme, this
year on sustainability. For an hour on a rainy Saturday
morning, we screened a compilation called Back to
the Land. Moving images of potato spraying in the
1920s from the National Archives Collection, 4-H dairying
in the 1940s from the Hancock County Extension Collection,
part-time farming in the 1950s from the Jean Hawes Collection,
railway track maintenance in the 1960s from the Bangor
& Aroostook Railroad Collection, and an excerpt from
the 2008 film Language Keepers about the Passamaquoddy
Language, captured agriculture and land use in New England.
Alan
and Natalie Kattelle Collection Bolex-Paillard, 1958,
Switzerland. One of a series of small Regular Eight
cameras, this one equipped with a Som Berthiot PanCinor
Zoom lens and a pistol grip. |
Alan
and Natalie Kattelle Collection
We were fortunate over the past few months to
have new opportunities to display pieces from our Alan
and Natalie Kattelle Collection of amateur filmmaking
equipment. In August, we created an exhibit for a Camden
International Film Festival special event, and Ben Fowlie,
CIFF founder, again asked NHF to create a window exhibit
at the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. We happily used
this opportunity to present pieces from the Kattelle Collection
to passersby on Main Street for nearly two weeks. We have
also created a new display of pieces from the Kattelle
Collection in our study center. 
