Ruth Storm

 

 

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 built & ultimately retired.  In retirement she edited her Maine, Greater NY footage, & vacation footage into titled reels & outtakes.  In New York & Maine, her friends included many artists and intellectuals.  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 screens in the cabin, one portable, designed to sit on a desk or a table, one standing, as well as an RCA projector.  Her last partner Almeda “Meda” Benoit joined Ruth in Maine upon her own retirement.

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