Northeast Historic Film

Northeast Historic Film (NHF) is a regional moving image archive located at 85 Main Street in Bucksport, Maine. NHF is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving and sharing film and video related to the people of Northern New England.

In 2013 the Association of Moving Image Archivists honored Northeast Historic Film with the Silver Light Award, honoring substantial contributions to the field.

NHF safeguards film and videotape through restoration, duplication, creating access tools such as catalog records, and climate-controlled storage in its Conservation Center.

NHF collects professional and amateur moving images related to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. The films and videos are preserved and made available to members of the public, scholars and members of the film and video production community.

The collection includes home movies, silent dramas, industrial films and independent projects. NHF also has a substantial collection of footage from local television stations dating back to the 1950s. In total, the archives holds over 10 million feet of film and 8,000 videotapes from 1896 to the present.

In addition to the vast moving image collections, the archives has a substantial collection of moving image technology including projectors, cameras, splicers, and viewers—and film ephemera including posters, scrapbooks, sheet music, letters and theater logs.

NHF offers programs for the public including screenings, online exhibits and events at art museums, film festivals and agricultural fairs. For moving image professionals, NHF offers internships, onsite and traveling workshops and an annual summer symposium. The William O'Farrell Fellowship supports study in Northeast Historic Film’s collections; applications for the $1500 stipend are invited. Proposed research must be for work intended for publication, production, or presentation with significant research in the NHF collections [1].

Screenings at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine

2001 Exceptional Amateur Film, including Mag the Hag (1925), Miss Olympia (1929), Paris, Maine (1929), Ice Harvesting (1943), live music by Martin Marks

2002 Maine TV History Highlights, introduced by Pat Callaghan, WCSH-TV

2002 Our Now is Your Then, silent films including Cherryfield, 1938, live music by Elliott Schwartz

2003 You Work, We’ll Watch, film documents on earning a living, including Ed Marks from the Portland Veteran Firemen’s Association introducing the 1963 docudrama 24 Hours

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