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. 23A: Senate Democratic Issues Conference
Edmund Muskie
Contents: policy machinery; space exploration; politics (John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Stuart Symington); Maine elections (Frank M. Coffin, Lucia Cormier). Interview of ESM by Tom [?].
Date: 1960.
Length: 15 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 23B: Saturday Evening Post with ESM
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Maine lobsterman; beauty of Maine coast for vacationers. Features ESM speaking and hypnotizing a lobster.
Date: 1960.
Length: 2 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 132 & 133 - Meet the New Senators, Class of 1958 Freshman U.S. Senators
CBS
Film No. 132 & 133: Meet the New Senators, Class of 1958 freshman U.S. senators.
Date: 1959
Reel 1 Contents: Sen. Bartlett, Byrd, Howard Cannon, Thomas Dodd, Ernest Gruening, Vance Hartke, Kenneth Keating, Gale McGee. Introduction by Walter Cronkite.
Length: 30 minutes. Color: Black and white. Client: CBS.
Reel 2 Contents: Sen. Gale McGee, Moss, ESM, Winston Prouty, Jennings Randolph, Scott, and Stephen Young.
Length: 20 minutes. Color: Black and white. Client: CBS.
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Film No. 133: Meet the New Senators (reel 2). Class of 1958 freshman U.S. senators
CBS
Contents: Sen. Gale McGee, Ted Moss, Muskie, Winston Prouty, Jennings Randolph, Hugh Scott, and Stephen Young. Introduction by Walter Cronkite.
Date: 1959.
Length: 20 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
Client: CBS.
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Film No. 12: "Governor Muskie" ferry christening
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Shows ESM speaking on the ferry, surrounded by family and others in celebration.
Date: June 30, 1959.
Length: 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 135: Soviet hydroelectric development; general tour in USSR
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Airport interview with ESM on return by WCSH-TV (Soviet education, industry, and potatoes in Boston). Sen. Frank Moss (Utah), Sen. Ernest Gruening (Alaska), and ESM. Bratsk Dam on Angara River, Irkutsk, and five other locations. Scenes of Soviet life.
Date: 1959.
Length: 30 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
Client: Special U.S. Senate subcommittee of Interior and Public Works Committee.
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Film No. 22: Thirty-sixth Annual Rehabilitation Conference
Edmund Muskie
Contents: President Jay Moor states goals: liberalize pensions for disabled unemployed veterans, more funds for veterans hospitals, and equalization of pensions; annual Maine Lobster Feast. George Friedman, American Legion Department Commander of Maine, and Bill Rogers join ESM and Maine delegation for the event. After 5 minutes, welcome to ESM; Jim Day, American Legion public relations director; Chauncy Robins; U.S. Representative Clifford McIntire (3rd District, Maine); and president of National Press Club for Maine Lobster Feast at Legion post.
Date: 1959.
Length: 10 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 10: National welfare and impact on Maine
Edmund Muskie
Film No. 10: National welfare and impact on Maine.
Date: 1958.
Length: 45 seconds.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 134: 1958 campaign for U.S. Senate; economic development
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Fisherman, farming, and family shots (no sounds on family).
Date: 1958.
Length: 20 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 187: Senate Campaign Commercial
Edmund Muskie
Film No. 187: Senate campaign commercial
Contents: Muskie speaks about using government to help people and private enterprise, and his plans for improving life in Maine.
Date: 1958
Length: 5 min., 6 sec.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 1: Impacts of economic development/improvements on Maine; new industries and jobs; agriculture, new schools and teachers, and highway system to Bangor.
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Narrator presents Edmund S. Muskie [ESM] as a "state of Maine" family with scenes from his Rumford home and camp on China Lake. Also promotes his election to U.S. Senate with clips of ESM at Maine Papers Co.
Length: 20 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 3: Same issues as no. 1, with more emphasis on agriculture (beef, dairy, and poultry)
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Clips of events in no. 1 in addition to ESM engaged in informal talks with dairy, beef, and poultry farmers.
Length: 5 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 4: Same issues as nos. 1-3.
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Similar clips as films 1 and 3; ESM explains candidacy for U.S. Senate because of interest in Maine and the people.
Length: 5 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 5: Maine highways, welfare, institutions and programs for conservation
Edmund Muskie
Contents: ESM speaks on economic problems from his office.
Length: 5 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 8: Maine/economic hardships
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Personal message from ESM explaining his candidacy for U.S. Senate.
Length: 45 seconds.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 185: Sunday River Ski Development
Edmund Muskie
Film No. 185: Sunday River Ski Development
Contents: Governor Muskie becomes the first stockholder in the Sunday River Ski Development in Bethel, Maine.
Date: [1956]
Length: 1 min., 7 sec.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 186: Waterville Industrial Park
Edmund Muskie
Film No. 186: Waterville Industrial Park
Contents: Governor Muskie becomes the first stockholder in the Sunday River Ski Development in Bethel, Maine. Muskie speaks briefly about the importance on such projects to Maine.
Date: [1956]
Length: 1 min., 7 sec.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 199: Bates Class of 1936 Reunion
Edmund Muskie
Film No. 199: Bates class of 1936 reunion.
Contents: Images of Muskie and other Bates alumni at 20th reunion party. No sound.
Date: 1956.
Length: 3 min., 30 sec.
Color: Color.
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Film No. 131: Muskie fireside chat
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Maine resources, education, and industrial development.
Date: 1955.
Length: 10 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 160B: Gubernatorial inaugural ball
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Receiving line, dancing.
Date: 1955.
Length: 5 minutes (no sound).
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 198: Office Scenes at the State House
Edmund Muskie
Film No. 198: Office Scenes at the State House.
Contents: Scenes of Muskie and staffers in the State House offices. No sound.
Date: [1955]
Length: 2 min., 17 sec.
Color: Color.
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Film No. 175: Muskie 1st Inauguration as Governor, 1955
WGAN-TV
Film No. 175: Muskie's first inauguration as governor; speech on industrial development, pollution, education, health and welfare, building program. Muskie sworn in by Sen. Robert Haskell. Attending: Muskie family, Gov. Burton Cross, Gov. Percival Baxter, David Nichols, Maine Speaker of the House Willis Trafton. Second part is inaugural ball, no sound.
Date: 1955.
Length: 20 minutes.
Color: Black and white.
Client: WGAN-TV, Portland. Peter Damborg, commentator. Nunzi Casavala, announcer.
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Film No. 154: Early news film and clips from Telenews Maine, United Press, and Movietone News
Edmund Muskie
Contents: ESM, JGM, Muskie family, Willis Trafton, Adlai Stevenson, Burton Cross, Frederick Payne, Clinton Clauson, Horace Hildreth, Margaret Chase Smith (elections); turnpike opening; Blaine House; Senate Democrats; Hubert H. Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Sam Rayburn, and President Lyndon B. Johnson; President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy; President Harry S. Truman; carousel opening, Shirley Jones; hunting and cooking in camp; and Maine Christmas tree for Rockefeller Center.
Date: 1954-1960.
Length: 35 minutes (no sound).
Color: Black and white.
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Film No. 160F: Elections; Maine Telenews
Edmund Muskie
Contents: Voting.
Date: 1954.
Length: 2 minutes (no sound).
Color: Black and white.