Shouldered Oar Films
History is told one story at a time
Our Clients
Nantucket Clients
The Nantucket Whaling Museum
… where our Muse award-winning film The Bones of History can be seen every day in the summer.
The Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum
… where our film about the legendary rescue of the crew of the H.P. Kirkham gives visitors an understanding of the courage of the members of the US Life-Saving Service.
Nantucket Boys Club
The ‘Sconset Trust
The Inquirer and Mirror
The Nantucket AIDS Network
The Community Preservation Committee
The 2 Center Street Project
What critics have said about our films
Filmmaker John Stanton's documentary registers today's radically different sensibilities about whaling, and the magnificence of these intelligent leviathans, even as it celebrates the skills of their Nantucket pursuers.”
—Boston.com on “The Bones of History.”
“Filmmaker John Stanton’s documentary echoes the easy give-and-take of a friendly tavern when it was a microcosm of the cultural and political changes of the period. Stanton doesn’t single out villains in this taut and melancholy film; he merely suggests that this last call is just one more passage in life.”
—The Boston Phoenix on “Last Call”
“The truth speaks for itself throughout Witch City in the voices of hucksters and hawkers, witches and Christian fundamentalists, preachers and politicians, longtime residents and day-tripping tourists, historians and those who are now living through history in the making.”
—The Boston Globe on “Witch City”
The hippie wedding party in a scene from
Last Call.
Video Highlights
You Have To Go Out… produced for the Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum
30-second ad for the Inquirer and Mirror newspaper
30-second spot for the Community Preservation Committee
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