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Poster for Rural Life in Maine (1930)

Rural Life in Maine (1930)

1930 · Short film · 12 min · dir. Elizabeth Woodman Wright

  • Documentary

Synopsis

This 12-minute silent film was an amateur film, which seems to have been made just so people would know how hard the folks in Maine work. The film starts off in the morning as these people raise the American flag and then head out to work where they do that all day. By the time the sun goes down we see how hard they work, what they eat and of course the few breaks they get with grandpa on the fiddle. So, in many ways this is an important film because it gives people the chance to see what it…

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Director
Elizabeth Woodman Wright
Released
1930-01-31
Running time
12 minutes

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