The Collection
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.
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