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Editing Maine Experience

Maine Experience editor Mike McDade talks in general terms about the challenge of editing several hours of video into a short, coherent story before discussing the particular challenges he faced in combing through a gold mine of footage from the creation of Wyman Dam in Bingham in the late 1920's. The film footage from the dam's construction was used to assemble a story about the history of Central Maine Power (commonly known as CMP) and its forceful, energetic founder, Walter Wyman, who created one of Maine's biggest companies by first buying a small generator on Messalonskee Stream in 1899 that served about a hundred customers.

 

   

Funding for production of Maine Experience was provided in part by: Elsie Viles, Cynthia Crocker, the Richard Bresnahan Family, Harry and Susan Konkel, the Borman Family Foundation, Henrietta Farnum Stewart, Randy Phelps and Pamela Daley, the Roy A. Hunt Foundation, Judith and Joe Kaminski and Calista L. Harder.