Exhibit: "The Whistle at Eaton Falls" – A Louis de Rochemont Award Display, August 1-30

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

The Willy Haas Award honors significant international books and DVD/Blu Ray publications on German-language film and film in Germany. The Whittle at Eaton Falls was directed by Robert Siodmak, who fled Nazi Germany for the United States in 1939.

The Willy Haas Award will be displayed in the lobby at 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. And, please join us on Monday August 19 at 6 PM for a film screening and discussion of Lost Boundaries, another de Rochemont film!