Description: A compilation of film, photos, and audio oral histories created by Donna Wiegle, Swans Island Lighthouse , Burnt Coat Harbor Light Station.
Description: A film compilation about the fire of 1947 from the Collections of Northeast Historic Film. Included is: October Fury 1947, Maine's Forect Fire Disasters, A Look Back at the Infamous Fires 50 Years Later, a retrospective produced by the Maine Forest Service. There are other cuts and film included without attribution of sources. On DVD.
Description: A film on DVD about Wendell Gilley, master carver from Southwest Harbor. Title: Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver. A documentary story filmed during the construction of the museum built in his honor in 1981. Film by Richard W. Adams, with a 2004 update on the 25th anniversary of the Museum and the centennial of the birth of Wendell Gilley. Running time of 25 minutes.
Description: A DVD that includes DVD versions of Charles Savage films that were used in creating "Dancing at the Mill". These films are property of the Savage family and MDIHS does not have rights to these versions.
Description: A DVD that includes DVD versions of Charles Savage films that were used in creating "Dancing at the Mill". These films are property of the Savage family and MDIHS does not have rights to these versions.
Description: A DVD that contains interviews with 12 individuals who have knowledge of the Peapod, a small Maine built wooden skiff. The DVD also contains photographs, plans, slideshows, construction information, and records of many of the existing wooden skiffs.
Description: Two discs, #16 and #17, that contain 4 lectures that comprise a portion of a course, "The American Civil War". Discs are labelled A & B. The discs contain topics: The River War and Confederate Commerce Raiders; Women at War, I; Women at Warr, II; and Stalemate in 1864
Description: A DVD containing a compilation of short images from the collection of Northeast Historic Film. This series was started in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of NHF. 10 clips, ranging from 1933 through 1975, are included.
Description: A DVD containing a compilation of short images from the collection of Northeast Historic Film. This series was started in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of NHF. 10 clips, ranging from 1933 through 1975, are included.
Description: A DVD that contains an edited version of "The Movie Queen: Bar Harbor Collection", originally filmed in 1935. This version of the film includes a header, credits, and a music soundtrack. It was edited by Dobbs Productions in 2013 for showing at a program sponsored by MDIHS.
Description: A DVD that contains a film created in 1935: "The Movie Queen: Bar Harbor Collection". This version of the film was purchased from Northeast Historic Film, Bucksport, Maine.
Description: A DVD that includes a 4.5 minute film of an opera created at the Stonington Opera House titled "The Singing Bridge: Fish Factory", April, 2006
Kids Vids Educational Entertainment, MPI Home Video
Collection:
Audio Visual History Collection
Date:
1995
Description: A videotape, VCR-VHS format, title Milk & Cookies: A video snack for kids of all ages, 30 minutes, 1995 This video is a tour of a milk producing farm to see how raw milk is collected and processed. Also explores the cookie makinf process at Keebler Company. Audience is children, ages 3-12. This video was used with children during one of the MDIHS exhibits related to dairy farming.
Description: A videotape, 30 minutes, VHS format, titled Richard Estes: A Film documentary, 1998 Created by Thom Willey and Paul Woodfin, produced by Thom Willey Film
Description: A videotape, VCR-VHS format, titled Restore America Maine, Episode #118, Scripps Productions, E.W. Scripps Company, n.d. Film has not been reviewed prior to accessioning. Source unknown.
Description: A videotape, VCR-CHS format, titled "Maine's Golden School Days" 1890-1930, A Reminiscent Video. A project of the Phillips-Strickland House, jacket design by Cheri Walton, n.d.
Description: A videotape, VCR- VHS format, titled "Hard Work", produced by Jim Sharkey, Orono, ME, Folkfilms.com Interviews, historical photos, and video from present day factories details the rise of the female workforce in the State of Maine's mills and factories and explores the conditions that women had to endure both on and off the job circa 1888.
Description: A videotape, in VHS format, titled Penobscot; The People and Their River, by Acadia Film Video, Gunnar Hansen and David Westphal, date unknown