269 16-mm and 8-mm films. The films include campaign spots, speeches and other public appearances by Muskie and other political figures, television interviews, congressional and federal executive agency hearings on federal pollution control legislation, educational films, and Muskie family home movies.
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Film No. 147: "Close Up." Interview on 1968 campaign
WMAL-ABC
Topics: youth protests, divisions in country, education, materialism, satisfactions of campaign. Interviewer: Joseph McCaffrey.
Date: November-December 1968.
Length: 30 minutes.
Color: Color (pink).
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Film No. 139: Interview on Vietnam, poverty, race relations, and more
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Interview with ESM on Vietnam, poverty, race relations, United Nations, foreign aid, national goals. Interviewer: Harry Marble.
Date: 1967.
Length: 30 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 29: Maine Heart Association
Edmund Muskie
Contents: ESM speaking.
Date: 1967.
Length: 1 minute.
Color: Black and white
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Film No. 43: Clean Air Act of 1963
Edmund Muskie
Clean Air Act of 1963, amendment in 1965 for auto emissions and Air Quality Act to allocate more funds over next 3 years for research. Contents: President Lyndon B. Johnson's press conference to discuss pollution legislation; proposes removal of sulfur from fuel and appeals for 12 consumer bills. Date: 1967. Length: 15 minutes. Color: Color (green).
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Film No. 44: It's Your Decision; Clean Water (Soap and Detergent)
Edmund Muskie
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Clean Air Act. Contents: Lack of usable water attributed to people, prosperity, and products. Secondary sewage treatment will work with the help of Public Health Service, Federal Water Pollution Control Administration and U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
Date: 1966.
Length: 15 minutes.
Color: Color.
Client: Soap and Detergent Association and League of Women Voters of U.S.
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Film No. 28: "Let's Look at Congress" radio program
WBEN-AM
Contents: Polish Millennium stamp ceremony; Sen. Mansfield mission; water pollution legislation; historic preservation of Capitol. Frank Fortune, Washington correspondent of WBEN, Buffalo, interviews ESM.
Date: 1966.
Length: 15 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 27A: Senate-House conference on Dickey-Lincoln bill
Edmund Muskie
Senate-House conference on Dickey-Lincoln bill; opposition of private power companies; support for urges passage. Contents: ESM speaking.
Date: 1965.
Length: 3 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 27B: Water pollution bill
Edmund Muskie
Water pollution bill: states have chance to set standards, then Federal government takes over. Also highway beautification, billboards. Contents: ESM interviewed by Frank Fortune, Washington correspondent for WBEN, Buffalo.
Date: 1965.
Length: 15 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 27C: Clean Air Act of 1963
Edmund Muskie
Clean Air Act of 1963; field and technical hearing in 1964; S. 306 now pending, to control auto exhaust by fall 1967. Contents: ESM speaking.
Date: 1965.
Length: 3 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 27D: SCORE program of Small Business Administration
Edmund Muskie
Contents: ESM speaking.
Date: 1965.
Length: 1 minute.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 27E: Maine Heart Association
Edmund Muskie
Contents: ESM speaking.
Date: 1965.
Length: 1 minute.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 61: "The Quest for Peace," LBJ film
Democratic National Committee
Contents: History of peace efforts from 1960. Increased military power, Berlin crisis, Cuban missile crisis, ban on aboveground nuclear testing, Peace Corps, Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Alliance for Progress. Features President Lyndon B. Johnson; narrated by Richard Basehart.
Date: [1964].
Length: 20 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
Client: David L. Wolper, producer; Democratic National Committee.
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Film No. 59: "Radical right in Southern California"
KCET-TV
Contents: Extremism, Communism. Cecil Brown speaks; Allan Nerins interviewed. Written and produced by Wes Willoughby.
Date: [1964].
Length: 42 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
Client: National Education Television and KCET, Los Angeles.
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Film No. 137: Interview with Muskie at China Lake
Edmund Muskie
Contents: his life and career. Harry Marble interviews ESM at cottage on China Lake.
Date: 1964.
Length: 15 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
Notes on canister: “20 minute interview with Harry Marble (WGAN newsman) China Lake, 1964”
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Film No. 26A: Election of Democratic majorities in Maine legislature
Edmund Muskie
Election of Democratic majorities in Maine legislature; need for cooperation, moderation, restraint. Contents: ESM speaking.
Date: 1964.
Length: 2 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 26B: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and Dow Air Force Base closings
Edmund Muskie
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and Dow Air Force Base closings; disagreement with Kittery decision; possible alternative uses for Dow. Contents: ESM speaking.
Date: 1964.
Length: 5 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 26C: Sugar beets in Maine
Edmund Muskie
Sugar beet acreage allotment for Maine as result of team effort: growers, ARA, MIBA, Great Western Sugar. Contents: ESM speaking.
Date: 1964.
Length: 3 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 26D: Announcement of candidacy for reelection to U.S. Senate
Edmund Muskie
Announcement of candidacy for reelection to U.S. Senate; quotation from Joshua Chamberlain. Contents: ESM speaking at lectern.
Date: 1964.
Length: 3 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 36: Educators for Johnson-Humphrey
Edmund Muskie
Johnson's record on education. Contents: Teacher speaking.
Date: 1964.
Length: 1 minute.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 38: ESM and President Lyndon B. Johnson
Edmund Muskie
Contents: White House conversation: ESM and President Johnson. (No sound.) Date: [1964].
Length: 45 seconds.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 39: Muskie nominating speech for President Lyndon B. Johnson
Edmund Muskie
Muskie's seconding speech for Johnson. Contents: Introduction by Speaker of the U.S. House John McCormack; speech; John Moss introduction of Sen. J. William Fulbright.
Date: 1964.
Length: 10 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
Same video as Film No. 40.
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Film No. 41: Johnson administration, Program for Prosperity
Edmund Muskie
Program for Prosperity, new jobs, new industry, conservation, pollution control, economic opportunities act, tax cuts, budget, unemployment, inflation, Passamaquoddy, Medical Care Insurance. Contents: Up to 75,000 people gathered in City Hall Plaza; President Lyndon B. Johnson and ESM shake hands with crowd, Mrs. Johnson present; ESM speech and introduction of President Lyndon B. Johnson, who then introduces Lady Bird Johnson. President Johnson recognizes Kenneth Curtis and William Hathaway.
Date: 1964.
Length: 50 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 42: Prelude to hearing on Clean Air Act
Edmund Muskie
Pollution/federal aid, motor vehicle problems, and sulfur emissions. Contents: ESM speaks on air pollution and need for designing policy, also need for federal grants in aid to stimulate programs and improve existing ones.
Date: 1964.
Length: 1 minute 30 seconds.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 66: Maine Heart Association
Edmund Muskie
Contents: ESM speaking for Maine Heart Association.
Date: August 1964.
Length: 30 seconds.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 68B: Still of Muskie for Campaign Ad
Edmund Muskie
Contents: ESM in WABI studio, Bangor.
Date: 1964.
Length: 2 seconds.
Color: Black and white.
Client: Muskie for Senate Committee.