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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Ashland Airport and Private Planes |
Pan across Ashland Airport runway / finger in foreground points at various areas of field, planes, including 1936 Fairchild N16827 / man poses with private planes as log truck drives by / shots of planes parked at field, hangar / same man speaks |
11-18-1966 | |
Confiscated Beer, Medford Police Evidence Room |
Police station evidence room: inventorying cases of Miller High Life beer |
11-18-1966 | |
Smoky Exhaust from 1950s Car |
Smoky exhaust pouring out of exhaust pipe of 1950s Pontiac / closeups, various shots of same and cloud resulting therefrom / car drives off, does U-turn in parking lot / Keyword: air pollution |
11-17-66 | |
Sorting Mail, Medford Post Office |
People waiting at counter, Medford post office / interior shots: employees sorting mail / room full of mail bins, sacks of mail piled high / man operates automatic sorter / more manual sorting / view over counter |
11-17-66 | |
Mary Hanley with Jacksonville Museum Agricultural Equipment |
Mary Hanley manhandles, operates plow, displays other agricultural equipment in building behind Jacksonville courthouse / stagecoach, fan mill, pack saddle, portable forge, fly nets / / men in suits chat |
11-17-1967 | |
Confiscated Illegal Drugs; Christmas Seals at Post Office |
Pan across drugs, drug paraphernalia: baggies of marijuana on table / State Policemen examine, display drugs, pipe, bottles / / man at desk trying to ignore camera / / interior, Medford Post Office: Postmaster Al Bradford, Mayor Dunley, marines, sailors, soldiers passing bundles of Christmas Seals to each other, loading them into bins; Dunlevy and Bradford shake hands |
11-17-1967 | |
Car in Ditch, Crater Lake I-5 Interchange |
Closeup of "stop ahead" sign / closeup of spinning light on top of police car / various shots of apparently undamaged late 1950s car with big fins with nose in ditch |
11-17-1966 | |
Naval Reserve Awards Ceremony |
Plaque on wall: Thirteenth Naval District, Organized Naval Reserve / pan across audience, they rise / flag is raised to ceiling of auditorium / pan across cadets in uniform / officer at lectern speaks / pans across sailors in audience / sailor receives award / officers chat in office / sailors and audience rise, leave |
11-17-1965 | |
Spider Spins Web |
Closeup of large spider spinning web, out-of-focus unidentifiable parking lot in background |
11-16-66 | |
Meeting; Medford Businesses; New Telephone Connections; Silver Dollars Purchased |
Pans across small group of men sitting in folding chairs / man speaks / more pans, more speakers / / exterior: Drews Manstore, Medford Center / interior of store: man in suit shows shirt / exterior: Medford railroad depot / interior of depot: man writes at counter / painted on glass of door: Heffernan & Ford, Attorneys at Law / interior: man at desk / / young man solders electrical connection in telephone exchange wiring bank / tight closeups of wiring and soldering / longer shot of man at work / / interior of business, sign on wall: "Appliances," men discuss with woman at desk / closeup of man holding seven Morgan silver dollars / man writes check See SOHS Film No. 1162 for earlier film of silver dollars |
11-16-1967 | |
TB Association Mails Christmas Seals |
Sign on building: Jackson County Public Health Center / interior: women stuff envelopes / woman holds up sheet of Christmas seals / TB seals poster |
11-16-1965 | |
Toy Repair for Christmas at V.A. Domiciliary |
Closeup of battery-operated train running on floor / pan across Dom residents in workshop / closeup untangling jewelry, rock tumbler operating / man with table full of cars / men working on toy trucks / man spray painting toy / pan across room full of toys / toy train again |
11-15-66 | |
People Receive U.S. Citizenship |
Four candidates sitting in pew in wood-paneled courtroom / they receive scrolls / man speaks / pan across audience / judge speaks / hands are shaken, people get up to leave |
11-15-66 | |
Stuffing Christmas Seals Envelopes |
Man places "Fight Tuberculosis" placard on table / women at work stuffing envelopes / closeups of same / boxes of work to be done / pan across boxes completed / more of same / closeup of placard |
11-15-66 | |
Relief Map of Southern Oregon |
Man indicates line on relief map of Southern Oregon with pencil from Klamath Lake north to Douglas County to Lakeview and back to Klamath Falls |
11-15-1967 | |
Injured Pedestrian Placed in Ambulance |
Rainy day, East Main, Medford; woman talks to policeman on sidewalk / attendants huddled around person lying in street / they place him on a gurney and into ambulance / market at Main and Hawthorne in background |
11-15-1966 | |
New Medford High School Plans |
Man with pointer indicates parts of new high school building plans on projected slide / interior: discussion in teachers' lounge (?) / looking at plans on table / more projected plans |
11-15-1965 | |
Drowning Search at Hellsgate |
Rogue River from height river from shore / people dragging river from boat / shot from boat / pans across broken drift boat / |
11-15-1965 | |
Righting Derailed Train in Ashland |
Crane prepares to lift tilted Shell tank cars / pans across scene / dog at trailer house twenty feet from cars / pans from east side / family at trailer / spectators watch crane at work / gandy dancers move rail / crane |
11-14-66 | |
Christmas Seals Mailing Completed; Teens Lectured Against Drugs |
Carrying boxes from Jackson County Health Department building to waiting veterans' 40-et-8 "Medford Voiture 165" faux locomotive / banner on locomotive: "All Aboard for Good Health Use Christmas Seals" / boxes of brochures in back of vehicle / petting dog / schmoozing is done / volunteers load into vehicle as well / they wave as vehicle departs / / teenage boys in Medford High School football grandstand / priest lecturing to them / closeup of priest speaking / pan across boys holding brochures / closeup of brochure: "Judo--Operation Judo--How It Affects the American Teenager" Operation Judo, named after St. Jude, was a national alcoholism and drug addiction program |
11-14-1967 | |
Woman Celebrates 100th Birthday |
Very old woman (centenarian?) in hospital bed holding carnation, speaking / nurse talks with her / |
11-14-1967 | |
Alba, Italy Councilman Arrives Medford Airport |
Man walks from airplane on tarmac, Medford Airport, is greeted, poses for camera, walks to terminal |
11-14-1966 | |
VIP Speaks |
Slow pan across crowd of adults in high school gymnasium / gray-haired speaker at lectern / audience applauds / different speaker / pan across dais / gray-haired speaker in smaller room / pans across audience /more of same room, speaker, audience |
11-13-1968 | |
Tuberculosis Testing, Research Footage |
Color, completely faded to red, silent: Exterior: giving tuberculin skin tests / Interiors in laboratory: woman looks through microscope / bacteria / man spoons out powdered drug / sign: "Tuberculosis: Keep Out" / injecting white mouse |
11-13-1967 | |
Medford Veterans Day Parade |
Majorettes marching on East Main Street, Medford in rain, Fluhrer Building, Standard & Brown in background / closeup of unhappy majorettes / color guard, Burelson's, Burk's, Lamport's, Arcade in background / VFW veterans carrying flags, Michelle's in background / drum majorettes followed by Medford High School band / closed cars (no convertibles) with signs on side carrying dignitaries / shot of sparse crowd / different high school band, Brainerd's and Crater National Bank in background / Veterans Domiciliary ambulance / VA truck float: “Peace Thru Freedom for All” / color guard / Medford Voiture 165 “locomotive” float / Bill Kerns, Dick Orr VIP car / Crater High School band, HFC Loans, Brown's Cafe, Grotto, Goldy Building in background / Salvation Army tambourine band / Girl Scouts / sailors / Cub Scouts / damp crowd / Pioneer Village stagecoach |
11-12-1968 | View Now |
Bybee Bridge Repair |
Speed limit sign on Table Rock Road, Table Rocks in background / bridge supports, timber cribbing, men at work / Bybee Bridge from distance |
11-12-1965 | |
Jackson County Planning Commission Meeting 11-12-1965 |
Pans across audience in folding chairs, Jackson County Courthouse auditorium / men at dais / speaker / |
11-12-1965 | |
Veterans Day Parade, Medford |
Medford, camera on Eighth Street by Alba Park, Federal Building under construction in background: Color guard / riderless horse / young spectators / high school band / 1930s car / color guard / flatbed float with veterans in wheelchairs and banner: "Peace with Honor" / Ashland High School band / more young spectators / Crater High School band / Eagle Point HIgh School band |
11-11-66 | |
Investigation of Shootout Site, Medford Shack |
"Medford Fire Rescue-Salvage" van, other vehicles in field, Roxy Ann in background / police car / shack in field by ditch, South Gateway area, Miles Field in background / police investigate shack / policeman holds pistol / closeups of (bloody?) spot in grass / police mill around / closeup of Luger pistol on grass / shack interior / police examine blankets in shack / closeup of bullet holes in corrugated metal side of shack |
11-11-1966 | |
Democratic Central Committee Meeting, Rep. Duncan Appears |
Jackson County Courthouse auditorium: Rep. Bob Duncan, in white jeans and white jean jacket, walks to dais, people applaud / he speaks, leaves / other speakers / speaker in audience / applause / more of same |
11-11-1966 | |
Eureka, California Airport |
All exteriors: "Eureka Air Terminal" on building / slow pans across idle airfield / "Pacific Air Lines" on exterior of building / "Pacific flight leaves" sign |
11-11-1966 | |
Southern Pacific Railroad Clock Delivered to Jville Museum |
Man wrestles heavy clock off ground, carries it up walk into Jacksonville Museum (old county courthouse) front door / pan up to museum sign / Mary Hanley receives clock / closeup of clock / they open case and admire clock |
11-10-66 | |
Jackson County Media Confab; Hospital Tour |
Man speaks at lectern behind dais / at dais: local TV newsman Hank Henry, radio personality Dave Allen, Mail Tribune writer Joe Cowley / / women wearing leis and nametags tour hospital / they tour radiology lab / pharmacy / switchboard |
11-10-1967 | |
Chest X-Rays; Dedicating Veterans Memorial Park Playground |
Woman registers at table / woman stands in chest x-ray machine / waiting room / / unused playground equipment: slide, swings, merry-go-round at Veterans Memorial Park, Medford, Stewart and Highway 99 / group unveil plaque on stone: "Playground Area Developed by Medford Jaycees 1967" / they applaud themselves |
11-10-1967 | |
Empty Jackson County Courthouse Auditorium |
Pans across completely empty chairs, dais, Jackson County Courthouse auditorium |
11-10-1966 | |
Medford Airport Lobby |
Medford Airport: pan across United Airlines, West Coast Airlines reception counters / sign: "We Regret the Interruption of Pacific Air Lines Service Due to a Strike Called by I.A.M. & A.W." / empty Pacific Air Lines counter / more lobby shots / Pacific Air Lines departure board / airport exec examines documents |
11-10-1966 | |
Women Collect Signatures, Downtown Medford |
Woman at card table on busy sidewalk, downtown Medford, another woman signs paper / woman stops, they talk, she signs / view of different woman at card table from across street |
11-1-66 | |
Women's Food Boycott Meeting |
Pans across audience in crowded meeting room / pans across women at dais / women speak / more of same / audience members speak, audience applauds / women holding babies |
11-1-66 | |
Boeing 737 at Medford Airport; Courthouse Picketer |
Airliner landing at night / United liner taxiing up to gate / people silhouetted in cabin door / spotlight turned on airliner / telephoto pan across liner / long static shot of liner / closeup of "Boeing 737" on liner / / old man picketing in front of Jackson County Courhouse with homemade sign: "Jackson County Assessor, Judge, Commission Unfair to Taxpayers/Today's Benedict Arnolds? Conspiring? Uncaring Unfeeling Unjust Unequal UnAmerican?"--closeups and long shots |
11-1-1968 | |
Demolishing Phipps House; Stuffing Christmas Seals |
Man removing shingles from roof / men and woman carrying doors outside / interior of vacant house: holes in walls / pans across exterior of elegant, columned mansion (Pierce/Phipps House?) / / volunteers stuffing envelopes with seals / Easter Seals logo / sign: "Fight Tuberculosis and Other Diseases," pan to enlarged Christmas Seals, pan to "No Smoking" sign |
11-1-1967 | |
Police Dog Training Demonstration |
White City county yards: Four policemen pose with police dogs / they walk away, dogs come on command / dogs go through obstacle course / dog attacks man's padded arm / more of same / dog leaps from police station wagon |
11-1-1967 | View Now |
Hellgate Bridge Under Construction |
Josephine County sheriffs deputies examine broken door on shed / shot through windshield of car crossing on old bridge / examining compressor on uncompleted bridge--wheels removed / closeups of compressor, lug nuts on bridge deck / pan from bridge to river to uncompleted deck to trusses overhead |
11-1-1966 | |
Private Jets at Medford Airport |
Pan across twin-engine corporate jets lined up on tarmac of Medford Airport, control tower in background / men look at papers on wing of jet / closeups of jets |
11-1-1966 | |
Auto Accident on I-5 Near Central Point |
Shots of wrecked Chevrolet station wagon / tow truck pulls car with cable / closeup of damaged guardrail / long shot of truck winching car, "Upton Road" sign and overpass visible |
11-1-1966 | |
Standard Insurance Building Fire Damage, Medford |
Pan across damage to building, workers on second floor |
11-1-1965 | |
Government Vehicle Auction |
Shotsof crowd / auctioneer on platform / closeups of crowd from above / more crowd shots / pan across building |
11-1-1965 | |
Manhunt in Woods |
Jackson County Sheriff's deputies and civilians examine map on hood of pickup in woods / groups hike off into hills with firearms and radios, camera jerkily follows / deputy calls on portable radio / break time |
10-9-1967 | |
Department of Motor Vehicles; Medford Carnegie Library |
Sign in window: "Department of Motor Vehicles," pan to door with "Office Hours" sign (new office at 25 North Main, Ashland?) / interior: DMV staffer helps men at counter / / VIPs in Medford Carnegie Library pass "Vietnam Doctor" book ti man, shake hands / closeup of book / man places book on shelf / men display LPs of "Messiah," "Mormon Tabernacle Choir," pan to more records |
10-9-1967 | |
New Apartment Building; Signs B Roll |
Pan across new motel or apartment building / more pans / signs in window of Safeway: "Bleach, White Magic 44c" "Bacon Thick Sliced 99c" "Pumpkin Pies 8 in. each 69c" etc. ad nauseam / prices on Craterian theater box office window (from Loges $1.50 to Children .50) / pan down movie poster for "The Sweet Ride" / cigarette vending machine / coin slot on cigarette machine / sidewalk sign at gas station: "Cigarettes 25c Per Pak" [sic] |
10-8-1968 | |
House Blocks Head Road |
House on road, tilted / sign: "Bad Corner" / closeup of house from other direction / underside of house, damage from contact with road / more closeups of house |
10-8-1965 |