Come to the North Country

We have recently received permission to transfer Sam’s last film Come to the North Country to a digital format. We have chosen a company that uses Lasergraphics, The Director, a motion picture film scanning system. You can find out more about the scanner at http://www.lasergraphics.com/director-features.html

We need your help to make it possible.

We were raising $775 to transfer Sam’s last 16mm film Come to the North Country to High Definition video using a professional motion picture film scanner ~ and just made a new connection that cuts the price by $275 to $500.

Your donation will help preserve his film for future generations & for $20.00 or more you will also received a copy of the film on DVD.

Deadline: 11:59 pm Friday, April 19, 2013

Make Your Donation Now

Come to the North Country – Teaser from Terry Dodge on Vimeo.

This short video is just a few scenes from Sam Campbell’s last film, ‘Come to the North Country’. These were transferred via a 16mm projector and a camcorder.

Quotable

"One of the inexplicable things in nature, at least to our present limited understanding, is the strange faculty of instinct found in both animals and men. In men instinct has been smothered and lost in self-consciousness and, with questionable benefit at times, compromised with reason."One of the inexplicable

"It is within your sacred power to point thoughts of tired people to God." Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo and Still-Mo pg. 237It is within your

"How values change. A week ago these things (gas rations stamps) were more valuable to me then gold notes. Now they aren't even good wastepaper!" A Tippy Canoe and Canada Too‚ pg. 158How values change

"I am often led to speculate on the evidence of Divine design there is even in the small events of our lives." Tippy Canoe and Canada Too‚ pg. 157I am often led

"The greatest comfort mingled with the greatest volume of natural beauty, to my thought is a night in a sleeping bag in the wilderness area of the north." A Tippy Canoe and Canada Too pg. 180The greatest comfort mingled

"One need never be lonely in the great outdoors. There is satisfying companionship to be found among forest folk when we are worthy."One need never be

"Why don't we fight the thing that causes the trouble and not one another? Why don't we fight hatred and fear, selfishness, greed, all the things that destroy human happiness. Slightly modified, only removed who was talking and the between comments." Seven Secrets of Somewhere Lake‚ pg. 95Why don't we fight

"Love that is bestowed in compensation for some favor or blessings has selfishness mixed in!"Love that is bestowed

"Our failure to understand the true nature of things has put so many creatures on the undesirable list that if all were destroyed of which people do not approve, there would be little wild life left." A Tippy Canoe and Canada Too‚ pg. 71Our failure to understand

(Duke) "Once in while I have reached the place where peace was close at hand that I knew where to seek it at last. It was when I forget myself, and as someone said, look through nature to nature‚ as God." Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo and Still-Mo pg. 38Once in a while