Films
Film clips may be viewed in the SOHS Library (no fee). Please contact SOHS Library to purchase a copy for personal use or review ($20 per clip).
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Silver Dollars; Medford-Jackson County Airport Master Plan |
Seven Morgan silver dollars on table / more views of same ad nauseam / / book: "Master Planning Study of Medford-Jackson County Airport Master Plan" / drawing of airport / regional map / land use map / map of airport / "Terminal Building Master Plan" See SOHS Film No. 1170 for subsequent footage of silver dollars |
11-8-1967 | |
Jackson County Polling Places |
Pans across busy polling place, Jackson County Courthouse auditorium / "Vote Here" sign / poll watchers joking and schmoozing / "Information" table / clerks in County Clerk's office / voter signing in / man sits down at Vot-o-matic, votes / gymnasium polling place, precincts 51, 52, 67 / exterior: "Vote Here" signs / interior, different gymnasium |
11-8-1966 | |
Dedication of Salvation Army Citadel |
Pans across exterior of citadel / people (including Mayor Dunlevy) leave building / they mill about for camera, walk back into building |
11-8-1965 | |
Christmas Seals En Route to Post Office |
Women toting boxes full of Christmas Seals envelopes / loading boxes into van / "Jackson County Tuberculosis and Health Association" on van door |
11-7-1968 | |
VIP Greeted at Medford Airport; New Community Theater Building |
Passengers disembark from Western Airlines DC-8, Medford Airport / VIP greeted, schmoozed with at terminal gate / closeup of VIP / / pan across building / interior: painters at work / woman fits young man with tuxedo / people standing on unfinished stage(?) / exterior of same building |
11-7-1967 | |
Harry & David's IBM Computer Center |
Good color--shots of IBM reel-to-reel tape decks, control panel, printer / sign on wall: "CSC: Computer Service Center, a division of Harry & David" / punch cards filling tray / pan across rat's nest of wiring / punch cards fill sorter |
11-7-1966 | |
Firemen at Larry's Restaurant, Grants Pass |
Fireman with "Lowe" on back climbs ladder to roof / fireman "Pat" inside building / fireman sweeps out water / water dripping from ceiling |
11-7-1966 | |
Bellview Elementary School, Ashland |
Teacher and elementary student at table with flash cards / elementary classrooms at work / students in circle on floor as teacher reads / closeups of students |
11-7-1966 | |
How to Use Vot-o-matic Voting Machine |
Closeup of Vot-o-matic / woman holds cards up / closeup of insertion of card, punching, turning page / extreme closeup of punching / clerks with punch cards / card sorter / printer / punching again See Medford Mail Tribune, May 1, 1966, page 4; May 26, 1968, page C4; November 8, 1966, page 1 (caption) |
11-7-1966 | View Now |
VIPs Visit Veterans Administration Domiciliary |
VIPs talk to old man lying in hospital bed / VIPs talk to man getting massage / VIPS walk on grounds of VA Domiciliary / they chat up old man sitting in chair and holding inscrutable object |
11-6-1968 | |
Jackson School Open House; Residence Fire; Surplus Vehicle Auction |
Brief pan across front of Jackson School, Medford / poster: "Visit Your Schools" / pan across display of photos / classroom with paper cutouts of children sitting at desks / children leaving school / / night: flashing lights on fire trucks / dimly seen firemen at work on old two-story wooden house / fireman descends ladder / firemen drag hoses / / mostly men milling about in warehouse interior / auctioneer at work / man drives stake truck away / |
11-6-1967 | |
Voting |
Sign on lawn: "Vote Here" / voters, poll watchers inside busy brick gymnasium polling station / people voting / slow pan across scene / exterior of building with "Vote Here" signs / poll watchers inside different polling station / people voting / woman places ballot in box / pan across scene |
11-5-1968 | |
National Education Week in Medford |
Woman holds poster: National Education Week / she talks with Mayor Dunlevy, other guys / elementary students do artwork, pose with paintings / shots of elementary school lunch room / mayor again |
11-5-1965 | |
Collating Christmas Seals |
VIP pins something on young man's shirt / they smile / women collating Christmas seals and envelopes / pan across table of collating women at work / young man shakes hands with different VIP |
11-4-1968 | |
Anthony Yturri Speaks |
Banquet scene: Anthony Yturri speaks at lectern / shot of audience |
11-4-1966 | |
Jackson County Courthouse Election; Office Discussion |
Speaker at lectern, Jackson County Courthouse Auditorium / pans across listeners / people tally votes on blackboard as clerks at desk open ballots / grinning man in audience / / two men have discussion in office |
11-30-1967 | |
Crater Lake Highway Accident; Medford Red Lion Confab |
Wrecked car at intersection of Vilas Road and Crater Lake Highway, tow truck driver in white cap and pants and bow tie attaching to it / state policeman watches / Highway 62 sign pointing to Medford one way, Eagle Point and Crater Lake the other / / interior, looks like Medford Red Lion: VIPs including Mayor Dunlevy walk past camera / men discuss at overhead projector / man buttonholes another in hallway |
11-30-1967 | |
Moving Building on Eighth Street from Medford City Hall Site |
One-story office building half onto West Eighth Street--Medford City Hall site / men examine under buildilng / pans along building / older man (building owner?) wanders around The Legal Arts Building will be moved to Eighth and Newtown streets (still there in 2018). Building was purchased by Robert F. Dwyer Jr., Portland, and the LeBeck and Sons Inc. moving company of Portland contracted to move it. Medford Mail Tribune, October 21, 1965, page 11 |
11-30-1965 | |
Ashland Downtown Planning Meeting |
Pan across audience / speakers at dais / speaker discusses large flow sheet / more shots of audience, speakers Article on Ashland downtown redevelopment proposal in Medford Mail Tribune, February 18, 1965, page F4 |
11-30-1965 | |
White City Traffic Accident; Children and Tape Recorder |
White City, intersection of Highway 62 and Antelope Road, Cascade Shopping Center, wigwam burner in background: wrecked Buick, pan to car upside down / state policeman taking notes, pan to door of upside-down car / police taking measurements / Medford Ambulance standing by / / woman with three small children, pan to tape recorder, pan to transfixed children |
11-3-1967 | |
Processing Coconuts for Meat and Husks |
Man sawing coconuts in half with band saw / emptying coconut milk in drum / people gouging out coconut meat / yard full of coconut husks and people at work / brushing off husk, placing husk on plastic sheet spread out in sun to dry |
11-3-1966 | |
Grants Pass Burglary Investigation |
Broken cigarette machine, policemen milling about darkened diner / debris on floor / policemen examine broken-open pinball machines, cigarette machine |
11-3-1966 | |
Josephine County Prepares for Election |
Clerks at work in office / man displays "Vote" sign, voting booths, seals ballot box |
11-3-1966 | |
Housewives Press Conference |
Women sit and talk in living room. Magnetic sound stock--sound not transferred, possibly no sound on clip |
11-3-1966 | |
Gold Dust at Stock Exchange; Fallout Survey Reminder; Demolishing Snyder Garage |
Man weighs gold dust on small balance scale / closeup of gold in pan / grinning man at desk, pan across office / man at teletype machine, pan to Dow Jones Averages board / tickertape stock display running on wall / / Civil Defense-produced footage, sound on film: animated airplane pulling banner: "Home Fallout Protection Survey" / voiceover reminding people to fill out mail questionnaire or answer questions of door-to-door surveyor / / crane demolishes large wooden commercial building at corner of Eighth and Bartlett, Medford / view of undemolished Bartlett Street front of building, Medford Montgomery Wards building in background / view of demoltion from Eighth Street, Roxy Ann and viaduct in background |
11-29-1967 | |
Christmas Greetings Banner for Alba, Italy |
Children pose in front of Wilson Elementary School with sign in Italian "Merry Christmas from all the population of Medford to all the citizens of Alba" / closeups of children / man rolls up sign |
11-29-1966 | |
Medford Tire Burglary; United Crusade Auction; Art Sale |
Man points to damaged window frame / pan across interior of Medford Tire television and tire displays, man shows locations of missing merchandise / auctioneer auctions rifle, Medford Armory / pan across crowd / closeup of cream separator / Mayor Dunlevy with auctioneer / sign: "All Proceeds Go to United Crusade" / closeups of auctioneer and crew at work / pan across art display / closeups of art works / paintings, jewelry / "Sold " sign / young woman artist with work / |
11-28-66 | |
Civil Defense Census; State Representatives' Meeting |
Woman walks up to suburban ranch home / closeup of her clipboard: "Civil Defense Census" / woman answers door; they talk at length / / spectators in metal folding chairs / discussion around table in center of room, tape recorder running, present are State Representatives Loren J. Smith of Benton County and Grace Olivier Peck of Multnomah / spectators again |
11-28-1967 | |
Labor Bureau Open House; Medford Firemen Repair Christmas Toys |
Sign: "Oregon Bureau of Labor" pan to door / interior: VIPs schmoozing / name tag on chest: "Norman O. Nilsen, Commissioner," pan to face as Norm chats, shakes hands / sign again / / banner, hanging somewhere downtown Medford: "Seasons Greetings" / pan across yard full of broken bicycles, Medford fire station / firemen in overalls working on bikes / yard full of broken bikes and toys again |
11-28-1967 | |
Wrecked Volvo; Cracked Safe |
Closeup of front of wrecked Volvo / more shots, closeups of Volvo, interior and exterior / / opened safe / broken safe dial, knob, other parts / shots of safecracker damage to safe, interior |
11-27-1967 | |
Burglarized Safe Examined / Elks Donate Televisions |
Policeman examines checks next to damaged floor safe / he fills out paperwork / closeup of safe and contents / banner: "B.P.O.E. 1168 September 15, 1909 Medford Oregon" / interior: Elks shake hands, pose with two television sets |
11-25-1966 | |
Eagle Point National Cemetery; New Medford City Hall; Tuberculosis Test |
Flag flying over Eagle Point cemetery / closeup of flag, pan down to base / longer shot of base, pan up to cenotaphs / pan across cenotaphs, hills in background / / VIPs posing in front of new Medford City Hall / interior of council chambers / council looks at blueprints / more shots of chambers, pan up to ceiling / Mayor Dunlevy pats wall / view through upstairs window to courthouse / / doctor administers tuberculin tine test to patient in office / closeup of "button" / closeup of arm with button |
11-24-1967 | |
Vietnam Petitions at Southern Oregon College |
In office, students examine three-ring binder full of signatures / student signs / |
11-24-1965 | |
Thanksgiving Messages from the Pilgrims, John Dellenback; Thanksgiving at Providence Hospital, Medford Fire Station |
Sound film: Living history recreations at Plimoth Plantation, historical Thanksgiving message / / color, sound: John Dellenback at desk with Thanksgiving message: history of Thanksgiving, "let's give thanks" / / silent: exterior: Providence Hospital / interiors: man wheeled out of hospital holding small children / nurses in dining hall / hallway with lines of men / dining hall: Thanksgiving buffet / diners eating, pan across dining hall / people waiting in hallway / exterior: Medford fire hall, Third and Front / interiors: fireman in kitchen with cooked turkey in pan / firemen eating at table |
11-23-1967 | |
Planning Commission Meeting; Air Pollution Presentation to Jackson County Commissioners |
Meeting (planning?): men in metal folding chairs at metal folding tables, maps on wall / / county commissioners meeting, Earl Miller present / shuffling papers, speaking / grinning speaker in audience / sign: "This Is the Air You Breathed! At the end of 24 hours the filter is removed and the deposits on it are weighed and analyzed" (filters are solid black) / sign: "The Breath of Life! According to state sanitary authority surveys this valley has the densest air in the state at this time!" / speaker |
11-22-1967 | |
Olson-Lawyer Wigwam Burner Conversion |
Cyclone dust separators mounted on top of wigwam burner, pan down / pan along pipes carrying sawdust to burner, to truck / sign on truck: Olson Lawyer Quality Lumber, Medford, Oregon / man picks up sawdust, holds it before camera / sawdust emptying into truck / truck drives away / more views of modified wigwam burner Olson-Lawyer is no longer using one of its wigwam burners, made possible by the start of particle board production in area plants. The burner is being used as a silo to store shavings. Special equipment designed and installed by Medford Steel and Blowpipe divides the burner into two sections, one for Douglas fir, the other for white fir. (Ashland Tidings, November 22, 1965, page 5) |
11-22-1965 | |
Medford City Council Examines City Hall Model, Plans |
Artist's rendering of new city hall / in council chambers, man speaks / councilors and mayor examine model of city hall / closeups of model / councilors examine blueprints, smoke |
11-22-1965 | |
Miller's Department Store, Medford; Installing Municipal Christmas Decorations |
Woman exits Medford department store (Miller's?), view into brightly lit interior through doors / closeups of lock on door / view of alley between Main and Sixth, from Central looking toward Riverside, trash cans, Swem's back door visible / side door, Miller's / closeup of lock / City of Medford seal on door of bucket truck / pan up truck to light pole with Christmas wreath installed up to man installing decoration at top of pole at Monarch's Seed & Feed, Sixth and Bartlett, Littrell Building in background / man descends in bucket |
11-21-66 | |
Swearing in New Citizens; Construction of Electrical Substation and High-Tension Line; Gas Station Construction |
Judge speaks at bench / spectators rise one by one / bailiff swears in new citizens / man pins corsages on women / certificates given to citizens / judge hands out small flags / speakers / small child angrily snatches his certificate away from other child / celebratory buffet / / construction scene, electrical substation / spooling wire from truck / uncompleted tower on far hilltop / helicopter delivers cable, flies away / / gas station building under construction, nearly complete / pans across site / several shots of building |
11-21-1967 | |
Installing Medford Outdoor Christmas Decorations; Medford Airport Control Tower |
Workers assembling outdoor Christmas decorations at Main and Fir, Medford / pan up light pole with tinsel decorations / man rises in cherry picker / decorations leaning against parking meters / cable lifts decorations to man up top / / men in suits chat on Medford Airport tarmac, point at sign: "Union Terminal," "Medford" on airport control tower / closeup of "Medford" on tower / tail of United jet, pan to control tower / men walk with pilot to terminal, pan to tower |
11-20-1967 | |
Display of Farm Antiques |
Man demonstrates harnessmaker's bench / demonstrates froe / displays horse collar, hames, saddle, lantern, doubletree, hay fork, grinding wheel as they're unloaded from pickup / demonstrates grinding wheel |
11-20-1966 | |
Surplus Vehicle Auction; Winter Driving Safety Footage |
Long row of Chevrolet pickups, Jeep station wagons and pickups / shots of vehicles, trailers, men inspecting them / pan across grounds, near Medford Airport / / KTVM car flashes headlights in fog / cars slowly drive side by side in parking lot, one with headlights on, the other without / shot from moving car of snowy shoulder, frost on trees and bushes / man at teletype in Weather Bureau / closeup of teletype / man examines weather maps on wall / State Police, office workers / |
11-2-1967 | |
Termite Inspection and Spraying |
Man on step of mansion / door opens, man walks in / interiors: man walks down stairs in dark basement, talks to woman / he talks on wall phone / pickup drives into driveway / same man in basement spraying chemicals overhead / tight closeup of woman writing check / man walks with chemical sprayer back to pickup |
11-2-1967 | |
Grants Pass Redwood Market Holdup Suspects |
Night: Police examine scene / policeman whittles wooden peg / nervous young man in store / man counts change / policemen scratch themselves, mill around store / broken door / flashlight illuminates man in handcuffs face down on floor / police station: suspects in handcuffs guarded by pollicemen iwith shotgun, submachinegun / men examine stolen evidence--cigarettes, radio |
11-2-1966 | |
Investigating Attempted Holdup of Russ' Market, Grants Pass |
Night: Interior police station / exterior of store / store owner on telephone / police mill around store, talk to owner |
11-2-1966 | |
Medford City Council Meeting 11-19-1965 |
Earl Miller speaks from audience / pans across mayor, councilors at desks / others speak |
11-19-1965 | |
Linemen Cut Up Downed Tree |
Pans across downed willow tree in residential back yard / children pose on tree / linemen cut up tree |
11-18-66 | |
Waiting for Civil Defense Conference |
VIPs mingle in parking lot / closeup of Civil Defense logo on car door / pan across men, Boy Scouts in parking lot |
11-18-66 | |
Medford Naval Reserve Awards Ceremony |
Pans across sailors in uniform standing at attention / officer at lectern hands out awards, shakes hands / more of same |
11-18-1966 | |
Concrete Work on Hannon Library, SOU |
Crane in operation, Southern Oregon University/Southern Oregon College / pan across wooden forms as bucket of concrete lowers / another pan across forms / men pouring cement, working on rebar / bucket lowers in front of camera |
11-18-1966 |