Film Record: Little Log Cabin in the Northern Pines, The

Identifier:

• 1989 (Source: oldfilm.org)

Date produced:

Filmmaker(s):

A.K. Schuster

Length:

500 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Colour

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Northeast Historic Film list of titled amateur works

Description:

Frances Schuster (about 17 years old) plays a 'sport,' while Paul Arbo (born 1895) is the guide who shows her the Maine woods. The cabin is at the Arbo house in North Brownville, Maine. Frances Schuster rises, dresses, lights fire. Arbo comes with pack and gun. They head out into woods. He cuts some spruce gum from a tree. Shots with 'binocular' effect of black bear and moose in river. Views of men working in Arbo's lumber camp on Ebeemee Mountain. The lumber camp cut birch for the peg mill in Brownville. Beaver flowage. Stan Howland, with basket pack on his back, stands by beaver dam. Faded color stock of Frances next to dead deer. At Ebeemee Lake man gets into and paddles canoe, Arbo and Frances get into green canoe. She walks to the cabin, goes to bed with boots on. Cabin shots particularly nice: fireplace, curtains. oldfilm.org

Resources:

Part of the Paul P. and Lucy G. Arbo Collection held by Northeast Historic Film

Locations:

• North Brownville, Maine (Filming)

Repository:

Paul P. and Lucy G. Arbo Collection, Northeast Historic Film

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