People on train platform wave to camera. Many are children. A sign in background advertises the Movie Queen. A parade on the main street is led by policemen and Boy Scouts carrying flags, followed by a band. This film was shot in warm weather. Many cars pass the camera, their occupants waving for the camera. Sign on truck: "Van Buren Goes Hollywood. Pictures Are Now Being Taken for the Movie Queen, Gayety Theatre, Aug. 7-8. See Yourself on the Silver Screen. Benefit for the Boy Scouts." Views of city officials greeting the "Movie Queen" as she gets out of car with her male companion and several others. Several pose in the doorway. Queen and Boy Scouts in uniform pose for the camera. Young teen boys pose with sign for the "Movie Queen". More shots of the parade in town, including the Silver Bell Band. Views of the Town Office building, where on the steps, the Movie Queen receives a key to the town. Scouts, band, children watch and wave. Pan the window of the Northern National Bank of Presque Isle, Van Buren Branch. The Queen greets several women, two men chat in the bank. Views of Findlen's Drug Store with Ex-Lax advertisements in the window. Druggist creating a fizzy drink on the store steps as a woman drinks a soda. Overexposed shots of a wood mill, Cities Service filling station with attendant checking oil and washing a car window. At Watson Bros. IGA store, the Movie Queen enters and departs with employee carrying a bag of groceries. She shakes their hands. Camera pans store advertisements in window. Harris Tailor with goods in window, and tailor fitting a sport coat. Woman looks at stockings. Queen and her companion exit store. Views of circus set up with tent. Truck says "Hunt Circus" Potential customers listen to barker or chat with each other. Shots of many faces. John S. Plourde General Merchandise store with pans of front of store and truck. Produce is advertised in window. Horse-drawn wagon marked " JJ Plourde Meats" drives by. A family checks out couches in the window. Staff puts a baby crib on the truck for delivery. Richards Pharmacy has window advertisements for Vinco Herb Tablets (a stomach remedy). An employee gives the Movie Queen a kiss. Long sequence of exteriors of church as parishioners leave. We see many faces in the large crowd. Women work at E.E. Dionne Insurance and a man gives the Queen a paper to sign. Woman puts dog in toy car. At Cormier Bros. Garage, the Queen looks over a car as if to buy it. It has a 1935 license plate. She looks at a DeSoto advertisement. Pan the front of the Banque Provinciale du Canada, and a woman entering. Views of U.J. Daigle, an insurance agent outside his home speaking with the Queen. Views of Martin Bros. Builders, a shoe store, hardware store, and a swimming hole with lots of activity and spectators on the shore (overexposed and dirt in frame). Various shots of a softball game in an open lot. Queen exits at an auto garage, pretending to have had a breakdown, and the garage man tows the car away. Hotel Cyr sign on building. Bus stops by hotel. Policemen check car at the Canada border crossing. Views of the W. Vailancourt garage. People pose by truck and building. Views of sign at Gayety Theatre and exterior of kids coming out of theater, followed by crowds of others. At Parent Bros., men fill cars with gas and clean windows. Hammond Auto Company garage with car driving out. Queen examines features of car with her male companion. In a lumber yard, men move lumber around, and the Movie Queen looks around. Finished planks come down a conveyor belt. In the river, logs are moved around and start up a conveyor into the mill.
The Daniel Lapointe Collection consists of a single 16 mm. film, "Movie Queen," made ca. 1936 as part of a local talent production. The film consists of shots of the town's businesses and people. The so-called movie queen is a local girl who visits business proprietors in and around Van Buren, obtaining goods and services such as a milkshake and automobile towing. Automobiles and automobile service are prominent in the footage. A hotel, a lumberyard with rail service carrying the finished lumber to market, and potato fields are also included. The Gayety Theatre is shown with emerging matinee customers. The film appears to be shot toward the end of the summer as there is footage of a fair with a sideshow, an entertainment likely to travel in the summer. This version of "Movie Queen" does not have the comedic kidnapping component that is present in many other surviving versions.
Documentary. Interviews with veterans of the logging industry including former loggers, former lumber company office worker, working forester. Includes Alfred Ames's 1930 logging footage of his Machias Lumber Company in Washington County, Maine, some of which was used in the production, 'From Stump to Ship.' Ames sold his land to the Seaboard Paper Company which became St. Regis and then Champion International Corporation. // Production underwritten by the Maine Humanities Council and Champion International Corporation in 1985. // Box labels tape as 'Edit Master.' Created 05/31/1989. // NOTE: Typed transcripts of interviews are available.
Collection contains feature films, short subjects and musicals. Titles include: "Way Back Home" (1931), starring comedian Phillips Lord as Seth Parker, and Bette Davis; "Vagabond Lover" (1929), a musical starring Rudy Vallee with Marie Dressler; "Sunrise at Campobello" (1960); and "Peyton Place" (1957), filmed in Camden, Maine. Collection also contains campaign works such as "HHH: What Manner of Man" (1968), a political film for the presidential campaign of Hubert H. Humphrey which includes Edmund S. Muskie and Humphrey bowling.
Bud Leavitt travels to Fort Kent and canoes the Fish River with Bob Jalbert, Greg Jalbert, and Don Michaud. Leavitt speaks with the men in canoes beside the River about river canoeing, paddles, setting poles, canoes, navigating whitewater rapids, the use of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, and recommended steps for preserving the rivers. Many shots of Leavitt and the men canoeing in the River.
This program focuses on the deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in the 1700s, and on the state of Acadian culture in Nova Scotia in the present day. It features interviews with Father Leger Comeau of St. Anne's University in Nova Scotia, Jim How of the Parks Service of Nova Scotia, Paul Comeau of St. Anne's University in Nova Scotia, and Wayne Kerr of Salmon River, Nova Scotia.
This program focuses on the deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in the 1700s, and on the state of Acadian culture in Nova Scotia in the present day. It features interviews with Father Leger Comeau of St. Anne's University in Nova Scotia, Jim How of the Parks Service of Nova Scotia, Paul Comeau of St. Anne's University in Nova Scotia, and Wayne Kerr of Salmon River, Nova Scotia.
Documentary about Army Corps of Engineers study of building Dickey and Lincoln School dams on Upper St. John River, and political process involved. Interviews with local residents, scientists, politicians, business people.
Amedee Proulx, Auxiliary Bishop of Portland (Me.) Also, Raymond LaGasse, a married priest from Concord (NH). Discussion of celibacy, changing morals, the relevancy of the church. Ray Pelletier inteviews Ernest Guiliet of Holyoke (Ma.) about the area.
St. Mary's Hospital in Lewiston (Me.)--roots in the early 1800s, influence on the Franco-American community. Ray Pelletier interviews teachers from central New Hampshire about the Canadian American institute.
Anita Dubois reports on the old social clubs of Lewiston (Me.). The drinking establishments of Madawaska (Me.) A portion of a slide presentation from New Hampshire, 'I Too, am New Hampshire.'
Panel discussion on 'Quebec and the Federal Option' and future of French-speaking Canada. Panelists: Marcel Pepin, editor, Le Soleil (Quebec City newspaper); Rosemary Nelson, UMO student; Robert Lecker, UMO Canadian literature professor.
3/4 in. archival original is transfer from original 2 in. tape. // Dropout throughout. // Episode produced in 1981 by Maine Public Broadcasting for a series entitled Reflets et Lumiere II, which explores the evolution of French Americans in Maine. Introduced by two men, the episode features a short comedy play in French and English written by Gregoire Chabot that examines culture shock, breakdown, and conflicting customs for the French Americans. Two couples play immigrants stranded in an automobile that they can not operate, and can not understand the instructions they are given by passers-by in English. Later, their descendants are stuck with a horse-drawn wagon that can not move. In the back they discover boxes containing 'Notre Heritage,' and must decide which items can be discarded so that the wagon will be light enough to move. Shot on location, has no subtitles. Episode concludes with a short dialogue between two French-speaking puppets: one is a log, the other is a potato.
Facts and fictions of being bilingual in a monolingual culture. An interview with Antonine Maillet, Acadian author and recipient of top honors for her many novels about Acadian life. See also Maine Humanities Collection, Acc. 0800, 3/4-inch.
Interviews with educators and clergy on the topic of bilingual education and changes and progress in the Church. Footage of classroom instruction. Most in French with no subtitles.
Bilingual education programs in Vermont and New Hampshire secondary schools. Father Nicknair of Fort Kent (Me.), Father Pelletier of Van Buren, (Me.), Auxiliary Bishop Amedee Proulx of Portland (Me.) on the role of priests.
Program #103. Record date: October 20, 1992. // Patsy Wiggins interviews Lucy Poulin, founder of H.O.M.E. (Homeworkers Organized for More Employment) in Orland and native of Fairfield, Maine in studio. Poulin discusses her background as a Carmelite nun, living in a monastery in Orland, her family's farm, and the history and goals of H.O.M.E. Controversial issue involving potential homeless shelter in Ellsworth that was opposed by town council is also mentioned.
Program #103. Record date: October 20, 1992. // Patsy Wiggins interviews Lucy Poulin, founder of H.O.M.E. (Homeworkers Organized for More Employment) in Orland and native of Fairfield, Maine in studio. Poulin discusses her background as a Carmelite nun, living in a monastery in Orland, her family's farm, and the history and goals of H.O.M.E. Controversial issue involving potential homeless shelter in Ellsworth that was opposed by town council is also mentioned.
Claire Bolduc looks at Franco-American organizers and their success at motivating people to action. 'Assimilo,' a short commercial spoof by Greg Chabot explores Franco-American stereotypes.
A report on Franco-American resources in the Maine State Library in Augusta (Me.). Interviews with Franco-American families: the Norman Dubes [sic] of Manchester (NH); the Greg Chabots [sic] in Newburyport (Ma.); Julien Oliver in New Hampshire. Hosted by Ludger Duplissie [sic].
Lowell (Ma.) talk with Irene Simoneau, Franco-American historian and authority on the role of women in the mills. Professor Roger Paradis of Fort Kent (Me). talks about Franco-American folklore and music.
A short comedy piece by Paul Pare [sic] about three guardian angels who are tired of working with Franco-Americans. The American-Canadian Genealogical Society in Manchester (NH).
NHF tape #326. // Produced by Maine PBS, Joan Young sets the stage for the last log drive down the Kennebec River in Maine. Scott Paper Company's 1976 drive from Moosehead Lake to their Winslow mill is featured. Includes interviews with mill officials, woods workers, river drivers, and politicians about the impact the final drive on jobs, the environment, and highway safety. Young introduces pulpwood drive from Moosehead Lake to Lake Wyman down Kennebec. Map shows route to Winslow. Katahdin steamer at work cleaning up logs from Moosehead lake. Interview with Ronald Macomber, Scott Paper Co. drive foreman.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This tape includes 30- and 60-second promotions for episodes 1, 2 and 3.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on saying goodbye to friends.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode teaches children about respect for the property of others. It includes footage of vans, busses and other vehicles on roads.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on gender roles in Franco-American culture and teaches girls that it is good to be smart. It features footage of bingo and lottery drawings, and footage of the mayor of Lewiston, Maine.
"La Bonne Aventure"is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on the family and its importance in Franco-American culture. It features footage of Benson's Animal Farm in Hudson, NH.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode teaches children that it is important to be true to themselves.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on important people in Franco-American history including Antoine de Cadillac, Peter Faneuil, Robert Cavalier de la Salle, Paul Revere and George Washington.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. In this episode, one puppet experiences feelings of jealousy when another is recognized for her talent. It features footage of a community bean supper and footage of Jean Dalpe of Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
Episode #13.// "La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode includes footage of people making maple syrup.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on communication issues.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on the deportation of the Acadian people from Nova Scotia.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on the Quebecois and Acadian ancestry of Franco-Americans in New England. It features of footage of the governor of Rhode Island proclaiming his Franco-American ancestry.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on legends and myth. It includes footage of Bath Iron Works, the ocean and shipbuilders.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on Franco-American Christmas Eve traditions.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on how to make collages and decoupage for a church bazaar. It features footage of a church bazaar
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode features footage of clocks and footage of Leo Pelletier who is a clockmaker in Auburn, Maine.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode teaches children about the value of work and the variety of work performed by adults. It features footage of people working in factories and stores. It also includes footage of Dick Desjardins from Orland, Maine.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode teaches children about having confidence in themselves. It includes footage of cars crossing a bridge and of downtown Lewiston (?).
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses on laughter and teaches children to laugh at themselves but not at others. It features footage of children playing at a playground.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode focuses the importance of personal space. It includes footage of a woman window-shopping; of someone doing a jigsaw puzzle; of someone decorating a Christmas tree; of kids on a merry-go-round; of the interior of a house.
"La Bonne Aventure" is a Franco-American children's show featuring puppets, animation and some interviews and footage of real people in New England. The characters in the show speak both French and English. This episode introduces some of the important characters in the show and focuses on the bilingual nature of Franco-American culture. It includes footage of churches and bells, and footage of a downtown area (possible Lewiston, Maine).
Musical program, featuring country/folk songs of John Perrault. Group includes guitar, violin, electric bass, harmonica, and vocals (in studio, with live audience).
Program #7. Record date: January 10, 1980. // Kendall Morse reads poem from Ruth Moore's book, "Cold as a Dog and the Wind Northeast. "Morse then speaks with Bill Gagnon and they tell each other humorous stories. Kendall Morse is sitting in the kitchen reading silently as his voice plays over this image to read the poem, "The Ballad of the Night Charley Tended Weir," from Ruth Moore's book, "Cold as a Dog and the Wind Northeast." (6 mins.) Then Kendall Morse leaves his usual location and says he's "goin' visitin.' Bill Gagnon in his heavy Canadian French accent takes turns with Morse with tales of moose and hunters and "Crapping pants" stories. "Town drunks, married drunks, keys to longevity, children at the zoo and road painting. The picture in this review copy is hitchy and part of a different frame shows at the bottom of current one.
Program #7. Record date: January 10, 1980. // Kendall Morse reads poem from Ruth Moore's book "Cold as a Dog and the Wind Northeast." Morse then speaks with Bill Gagnon and they tell each other humorous stories.
The Lewiston Franco-American Festival. The Lowell (Ma.) ethnic Festival. The second annual Old Town (Me.) Franco-American Festival featuring storytelling by Bill Gangon [sic], music by Simon St. Pierre, a wood-chopping contest and an interview with a retired woodcutter from 'French Island' in Old Town. Ray Pelletier talks to two teachers about Franco-American studies in Waterville (Me.) . An overview of the arts and crafts fair in Manchester (NH).
Acadian history through an interview with school principal Guy Dubay of Madawaska (Me.). Visits to the Acadian Village near Van Buren (Me.) and 'Le Village Acadien' in Caraquet, New Brunswick, Canada. A short visit to Quebec City.
This program focuses on the deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, and the descendents of the Acadians who settled in the St. John Valley in northern Maine. It focuses on the resurgence of Acadian culture and identity in northern Maine, Acadian history and the lives of Acadian-Americans in the present day. The program features interviews with Guy Dubay from Madawaska, Dick Corbin of Madawaska, Bob Hebert of Madawaska, Ben Talbot of Madawaska, Martine Pelletier of the Acadian Village in Van Buren, and Bernette Albert of the Tante Blanche Museum. An Acadian author is also interviewed.
This program focuses on the deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, and the descendents of the Acadians who settled in the St. John Valley in northern Maine. It focuses on the resurgence of Acadian culture and identity in northern Maine, Acadian history and the lives of Acadian-Americans in the present day. The program features interviews with Guy Dubay from Madawaska, Dick Corbin of Madawaska, Bob Hebert of Madawaska, Ben Talbot of Madawaska, Martine Pelletier of the Acadian Village in Van Buren, and Bernette Albert of the Tante Blanche Museum. An Acadian author is also interviewed.
NHF Tape 1: SP-Dub of 'Modern Times' production made from Ggroerer/Creativideo production master. The program is a retrospective look at social and technological change in Maine and the United States during the period 1890-1930 and contains NHF archival footage. This version may/not contain a tag. This if NHF's best quality copy. NHF Tape 2: 3/4 in. dub of 'Modern Times' [from production master?] with long tag added 4/9/96. The long tag has MHC/Twentieth Century Project contact info plus NHF contact info. NHF Tape 3: 3/4 in. dub of Tape 2, with the long tag modified for broadcast purposes. The tag was modified by omitting the MHC/Twentieth Century Project segment. Use this version for broadcast requests, although it is second generation.
This video explores the growth of the paper industry and hydroelectric utilities; Maine's role in American expansionism; immigration and the decline of agriculture; urban problems and Maine's contributions to progressive reform; the growing national interest in the outdoors; the effects of World War I; and the peculiar self-centeredness of the 1920s, fueled by automobiles, movies and radio. The story of Modern Times in Maine and America is told through original music, narration, rare moving images, many still photographs never publicly seen before, and interviews with Mainers who still sharply remember what life was likein the early years of the century.' ONSITE REFERENCE ONLY.
Dated 4/26/82. A live one-hour call-in program. The series producers and community representatives open the telephone lines to take questions from viewers. Among the topics to be discussed: what it means to be a Franco-American today, and options for the future; how did the television series do in covering the Franco-American scene today. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
Dated 3/22/82. Several Maine politicians discuss what it means to them to be Franco-American and the political realities for Franco-Americans in Maine today. Professor James Gallagher, University of Maine sociologist, comments. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
Dated 9/28/95 [sic]. Immigration movement of French-Canadians to New England at the turn of the century. Two puppets comment on the program after it is over. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
Dated 1/25/82. Visits with artists and performers from around Maine and New England including Julien Olivier, storyteller, Gilbert Roy, artist, Buck McHenry, wood sculptor, Josee Vachone [sic], singer. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
Dated 11/23/81. Interviews with Franco-Americans, young and old, about growing up in an authoritarian, closed and rigid society. Among matters discussed: the effects of being surrounded by an English-speaking society with different values, customs and traditions. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
Dated 10/26/81. Eugene Paradis recalls his earlier years in Old Town, Maine, when life was simper and run by bells, whistles and horns. Visits with other Old Town residents who speak of their lives today. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
Dated 12/28/81. Facts and fictions of being bilingual in a monolingual atmosphere, An interview with Antonine Maillet, Acadian author and recipient of top honors for her many novels about Acadian life. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
Reflets et Lumiere II, dated 2/22/82: Visits with traditional groups in the Augusta and Lewiston areas to discuss why they were created in the 1900s and if their goals have changed for the 1980s. Looks at the new local, regional and national organizations to compare and contrast their reasons for being. Professor James Gallagher, a University of Maine sociologist, discusses the reasons why ethnic groups form closed social clubs and the new reality of the 1980s. FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
Demo tape for New Sweden Group (John and Richard Heid) for Humanities and Public Policy showing. Two 3/4-inch tapes, one with subtitles (approx 50 mins.). FOR REFERENCE ONLY.
Film about the music of Lionel 'Toots' Bouthot, keyboard and guitar player, and Ben Guillemette, fiddler. Franco-American musicians from Maine, includes footage of dances and festivals. They talk about their cultural background, how they came to play music, and about their partnership, which breaks up during the shooting of the film. Includes French and English language singing, line dancing with senior citizens in a community center, square dancing in a gym, the Lowell, Mass., folk festival, La Kermesse Franco-Americaine in Biddeford, Me., and the Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D.C.
The News Machine/La Machine Magique 1971-1977.' [Recording of French/English bilingual children's television program on Maine Public Broadcasting Network.]
The News Machine/La Machine Magique, four weeks.' [Recording of French/English bilingual children's television program on Maine Public Broadcasting Network.]
Collection contains [Du Mais--home movies] with a mix of family events such as vacations, holiday rituals, and sporting activities. It also captures regional subjects such as Colby College’s Mayflower Hill campus when it opened, construction activities from the early 1950s, parades, fires, summer camps in Maine, herring catches in the Sheepscot River, travel footage from Guatemala in 1954, New York City scenes, and amateur footage of the Mayo Clinic.
Unedited footage including interviews with Acadians, focusing on their daily lives, customs, food, music and dance. Original footage is 1/2-inch open reel videotape. From donor's notes: This video was done in 1979 intending to document how Christmas was celebrated on Prince Edward Island at the turn of the century. The first part of the video are interviews conducted in the Rumford, Me. area by Dr. Edward Martin (founder of Acadian heritage Society), who asked selected Acadian individuals what their Christmas celebrations were like prior to their migration to the U.S. The discussion involves foods, traditions, music, religion, and family involvement. The second part of the video documents how the Acadian Society made 'poutine' for their annual festival called the 'Fiddle Festival,' a celebration of Acadian music, foods and merryment. Poutine is a traditional Acadian food looked at with much fondness. You see that attitude reflected in the chefs preparing the poutine in the video. The last part of the video documents one of the fiddle festivals. Many of the musicians were Society members and self-taught. The step dancers were also self-taught. The festivals were always organized to include family participation.
Collection contains unedited footage including interviews with Acadians, focusing on their daily lives, customs, food, music and dance. The interviewer, Dr. Edward Martin, centers discussion around Christmas celebrations, Acadian history and life in Rumford. Footage includes documentation of the Acadian Society's cooking poutine, a traditional food, for the annual Fiddle Festival.
