Direct mp4 download or play: The Neighbors of Woodcraft
I acquired this filmstrip projector in the mid 1980s. This machine sat on the top shelf of a closet at my home in Martinez, California and then in a cupboard at my home in Seattle until 2004. In the fall of 2004, I captured the filmstrip and the built-in cassette tape audio on my digital camcorder and transferred it to a computer where it sat until now. I was never satisfied with the image quality mainly because the middle of the image is brighter. Also if you listen closely you can hear a low frequency tone (around 50 HZ) come on when the film advances. It is a control tone on the cassette tape which activates the film advance mechanism; although I think I filtered most of it out. There are still some clicks when the tone turns on and off.
This filmstrip is self explanatory but you learn more about The Neighbors of Woodcraft building in Portland, Oregon by going to The Tiffany Center website.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackNice one.. And a good job too!
I’ve never heard of them before. Wonder if they were rubbed out by the Freemasons?
I’ll bet Archives.org would love that film strip.
20 minutes of Anglo-cracker madness.
Those wacky woodmen must really watch their woodpiles.
I put up another copy of this filmstrip today. I think I improved the image quality slightly.
For a split second there I thought that was Jim Neighbors, not Jim of the Neighbors.
Gee, Weatherman, your filmstrip was depressing! Don’t know if it was a propaganda piece for another Moose Lodge of an ad for life insurance! I remember, years ago, it was ME packing a filmstrip projector all over Norway proselytizing Norwegians about the only TRUE church, the Mormons.
As technology and philosophy evolves, why not just chuck away all that old obsolete equipment hawking obsolete ideas and fraternities!
Thats creepy!
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The Neighbors of Woodcraft retirement home is now the Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Oregon. Many of the members are buried in Idlewilde Cemetery in Hood River. I am working on an index of the cemetery, and would appreciate contacts by relatives of N.O.W. members buried there.
Thanks for posting the film. It was very informative.
My great grandmother started the Women of Woodcraft and I have her 20 year anniversary (1897-1917) gravy boat. Yhe information on the film wa very informative and I also have a few other objects like books that go along with it.
Thanks for the info!!!
My grandma belonged to the Neighbors of woodcraft.
I have a postcard written to my Grandfather in Jan of 1907 from a J M Barney (a Physician in Denver, CO, in 1907, I found out) asking Granddaddy to come to a dance on the 1st of Feb. Then it has “Woodcraft” which I believe was this fraternal order.
Wow……..pretty interesting! Thanks for posting that Weatherman!
I happened upon your website because I have a scrapbook that I purchased in an antigue shop a few years back, for the old vintage cards and postcards in it. Apparently it was made by a daughter of a Woodcraft family….. As I looked through it I found alot of info, letters, clippings etc. having to do with The NOW. For some reason that scrapbook popped into my head tonite and I started Googling and your post popped up!
Its a wonderful day in the Neighborhood!! ;0)
This brought back old memories. I was an agent for Neighbors of Woodcraft in the 60″s. Now I am 69 years old and retired. The film was “state of the art” back in the 60’s. The message was motivating, too bad nothing like the N.O.W. exists today.
Nice to see pictures of my grandfather, who was a Grand Manager of Woodcraft ( he died in 1981, at 95 ).