Developing Enhanced Digital Access in Response to the Pandemic

FAIN: PB-274937-20

Northeast Historic Film (Bucksport, ME 04416-4027)
David S. Weiss (Project Director: May 2020 to August 2023)

The retention of six staff positions at Northeast Historic Film that will prepare for upload 2,800 reels of digitized film and videotape documenting New England history and culture, including, for example, a 1901 film called Drawing a Lobster Pot, home movies from Penobscot Elder and World War II veteran Charles Norman Shay, home movies of John Kenneth Galbraith, and documentation of horse logging operations from the 1930s.

This project will provide digital access to significant moving images from the collections of Northeast Historic Film, as well as develop the workflows and infrastructure to support their delivery, with the result of furthering our mission and keeping our staff employed.