Exhibit: "The Whistle at Eaton Falls" – A Louis de Rochemont Award Display

The Whistle at Eaton Falls, produced by Seacoast film legend Louis de Rochemont in 1951 and recently restored on DVD, was awarded the Willy Haas-Preis Award for Best Film on Blue Ray/DVD at the International Film History Conference in Hamburg Germany in 2023. The Willy Haas-Preis Award honors significant international books and DVD/Blu Ray publications on German-language film and film in Germany. The film's director, Robert Siodmak, fled Nazi Germany for the United States in 1939.

Filmed in Exeter, Portsmouth, and Newmarket, New Hampshire, The Whistle at Eaton Falls features Dorothy Gish, Ernest Borgnine, and a very young Lloyd Bridges in the starring role. 

The Willy Haas-Preis Award will be displayed in the lobby of the Portsmouth Public Library from August 1 through August 30, 2024, along with other items of interest courtesy of Louis de Rochemont Heritage Films, and Rodney Obien of Mason Library at Keene State College.

Registration is not required. Just drop by to view the exhibit during library hours.

Please join us on Monday August 19 at 6 PM to watch and discuss Lost Boundaries, another de Rochemont film.