1928, Adams Home Movies--Middle Dam, Maine

Genre: home movie

Description:

A family camping trip at Lower Richardson Lake, in the Rangely region of Maine (the location of the book We Took to the Woods, by Louise Dickinson Rich). Scenes include backing a Buick from the garage, mountains, a lake with logs, Lake Richardson, fishermen, pipe smoking, a rustic fishing camp, cottages, a lodge, log and shingle construction, fishing and fly casting, woods, dirt roads, a duck, a gull, a nest with three eggs, Rapid River, Birch and evergreen trees, a dam, a gate, and a rowboat.

This collection consists of home movies shot by Fredrick C. Adams from the 1920s through the 1950s in the Northeast, including Maine, Connecticut, Nova Scotia, and Labrador. The collection totals 11,192 feet of 16mm black-and-white film, 3,014 feet of 16mm color film, and 648 feet of 16mm lenticular color film. Also donated were a handful of objects that can be viewed at MIRC: a Kodascope Model EE 16mm film projector with case; Magazine Ciné-Kodak camera with case and one film magazine; and an AO Review 500 watt slide projector with case. Copyright University of South Carolina. All rights reserved. See more of our collection at: https://digital.library.sc.edu/departments/mirc/

Complete Record: A family camping trip at Lower Richardson Lake, in the Rangely region of Maine (the location of the book We Took to the Woods, by Louise Dickinson Rich). Scenes include backing a Buick from the garage, mountains, a lake with logs, Lake Richardson, fishermen, pipe smoking, a rustic fishing camp, cottages, a lodge, log and shingle construction, fishing and fly casting, woods, dirt roads, a duck, a gull, a nest with three eggs, Rapid River, Birch and evergreen trees, a dam, a gate, and a rowboat. This collection consists of home movies shot by Fredrick C. Adams from the 1920s through the 1950s in the Northeast, including Maine, Connecticut, Nova Scotia, and Labrador. The collection totals 11,192 feet of 16mm black-and-white film, 3,014 feet of 16mm color film, and 648 feet of 16mm lenticular color film. Also donated were a handful of objects that can be viewed at MIRC: a Kodascope Model EE 16mm film projector with case; Magazine Ciné-Kodak camera with case and one film magazine; and an AO Review 500 watt slide projector with case. Copyright University of South Carolina. All rights reserved. See more of our collection at: https://digital.library.sc.edu/departments/mirc/