Ruth Huntington Storm (1888-1981) was a New York City schoolteacher who filmed friends, lovers, and places she visited from the mid-1930s until the mid-1960s with a 16mm Model K Cine Kodak. She spent many summers in Corea, Maine, where she had a cabin. In retirement she edited her Maine, Greater NY footage, & vacation footage into titled reels & outtakes. Her friends included many artists and intellectuals, and several appear in the footage, including painter Marsden Hartley, Maine writer Miriam Colwell, writer, sculptor & violinist Chenoweth Hall, and filmmaker Jean Oser. She had two projection screens in the cabin, one designed to sit on a desk or a table, one standing, as well as an RCA projector, and her 16mm camera. Her last partner Almeda “Meda” Benoit joined her in Maine upon her own retirement.
Ruth Storm Collection
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Subject(s):
Lesbians, Teachers
Place(s):
Corea, Maine; Greater NY; Jones Beach, NY; Worlds Fair 1939; Worlds Fair 1964; Tunk Lake, Maine; Trenton, Maine; Smokies; Evander Childs High School, Bronx, NY
Primary Format and Extent:
16mm
Collection Date Range:
1937-1964
Summary:
The collection consists of consists of 18 reels of silent black and white, and color 16 mm film. The films are amateur films shot by Ruth Storm in greater New York particularly highways and sites associated with Robert Moses and in Corea, Maine, and environs. Storm herself edited her footage into these 18 reels. She kept seventeen in her Maine cabin and mailed at least one, Reel 18, to her last partner's childhood friend.
Repository:
Lesbian Home Movie Project, Orland, ME
Condition Governing Reproduction and Use:
Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) holds all rights.
Source URL:
https://www.lesbianhomemovieproject.org/collection/ruth-storm/