Home is where the art is Home movies are projected to keep picking up popularity, putting the focus of film buffs on the archives at the Alamo in Bucksport. Two girls bathed in a filtered light do the Twist. A toddler watches Romper Room on a '50s-style television. An old man with a bushy white moustache swings a scythe across a field of grass blowing in the wind.
Horses pull a plow as a lanky dog follows.
These are the humble, sometimes fuzzy images of the past to be found at Northeast Historic Film. This regional film archive has one of the largest collections of home movies in North America. White's home movies to footage of a solar eclipse. All of it has some connection to northern New England. That collection has placed Sheldon and Northeast Historic Film squarely at the forefront of a nascent movement among film archives nationally.