Middle Dam, Maine--Adams--home movies

Genre: home movie

Description: Item Description Title Middle Dam, Maine--Adams--home movies Creator Adams, Frederick (Filmmaker) Donor Adams, Frederick C. Date 1928 Date Note Filmed in 1928. Subjects Camping--Maine. Fishing--Maine. Boats and boating--Maine. Richardson Lake (Me.)--Description and travel. Content 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. See also Adams C-2. Contributing Institution University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections Rights Copyright: University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208. Geographical Location Middle Dam (Me.) Digital Collection Home Movies from Moving Image Research Collections Collection Name Frederick C. Adams Collection Collection Description This collection consists of home movies shot by Frederick 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 Cine_-Kodak camera with case and one film magazine; and an AO Review 500 watt slide projector with case. Item Title Adams C-1 Citation Middle Dam, Maine--Adams--home movies. (Adams C-1.) Frederick C. Adams Collection. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. Type Moving Image Format video/H264 Media Type Motion pictures (visual works) Digitization Specifications This standard definition .h264 video is an access copy derived from a captured videotape master of a film original. Title Id Adams C-1 Decade 1920 Physical Notes Film: 16mm Silent B&W Positive 1.37:1 (Academy) Silent Acetate. Website https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/home-movies-from-uscs-moving-image-research-collections/