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Behind the Scenes: Winter in Maine

You know those Hollywood movie scenes where it's supposed to be snowing, but the snow isn't real and it's probably 85 degrees on the set? This isn't about one of those scenes. This segment, featuring segment producer Anita Clearfield, is about shooting the "Morning in Winter" segment of Maine Experience on a very real, very frigid Maine winter day. The idea was to accurately portray what a typical Maine winter morning was like over a hundred years ago and the crew and actors got a bit more reality in that regard than they bargained for. Fortunately the soapstone bedwarmers of the day used in the piece were also real, and they were put to use by the crew to warm something else entirely.

   

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.