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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Description | Publication date | Online link |
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Christian Athletes, Mark Hatfield at SOC |
Athletes exit Greyhound bus at SOSC / shirt on folding table: "Fellowship of Christian Athletes" / view from above / Mark Hatfield arrives |
8-8-1966 | |
Christmas Crafts Sale; High School Scavenger Hunt; Project Gasbuggy Footage |
Women examine Christmas crafts, more on display on table and wall / craft groups identified on wall: "Lake Creek," "Medford Harmony Homemakers" / / high school students standing in classroom (one standing on desk) intently examining papers, numbered photos on wall, map / teacher watches smugly / / good color, silent: crane lifts "Gasbuggy" bomb, lowers it into hole Project Gasbuggy was an attempt to use a nuclear device to fracture rock for gas extraction: |
12-7-1967 | |
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 | |
Christmas Party; Luncheon Meeting |
Interiors: women greet each other at Christmas party / / man speaking at lectern / luncheon crowd applauds, slow pan across attendees / speaker again / pan along dais, applause / priest attending / different speakers |
5-1-1969 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Christmas Tree Farm |
Man displaying Christmas tree / people measuring trees in field / hand displaying tag on tree: “$3.00” / pans across field of trees |
12-6-1968 | |
Christmas Tree Industry Promo |
Professionally produced. Shots of tree farm, cutting, packaging, loading, shipping, selling, buying Christmas trees |
12-23-1965 | |
Church Fire; Building Under Construction |
Firemen, priest and civilians talking / pan across tile roof to fireman on roof spraying water through bent metal vent, stained glass window in background / group on ground talking again / closeup of priest / interior: man climbs with bucket past fresco of Christ, paints arch / pan across scaffolding in church / cellar window, pan up to brick wall with missing windows / /pan across framed ceilng of building under construction / 2x4 on ground / wood waste on ground / more shots of building under construction |
6-26-1968 | |
Citizens Band Enthusiasts Meeting |
Man speaks in front of classroom / attendees laugh / another man diagrams on blackboard / attendees ask questions, discuss |
9-30-1966 | |
City of Medford Meeting |
Meeting, Medford city hall chambers, Mayor Dunlevy present but not presiding; Earl Miller present / shots of participants |
2-3-1967 | |
City of Medford Meeting; New Style Fruit Bins |
Meeting in Medford City Council chamber / men display maps, graphs on easel--"Area of Influence" circled / graph: "Facilities Peak Hour Operations" "Projected Annual Itinerant Operations" / stack of pallets and old-style fruit boxes / closeups, pans, various shots of same / forklift loads new-style fruit bins onto truck at Reter Fruit Co., South Fir Street, Medford / closeup of pears in bin / bin on forklift / more forklift operations |
9-11-1967 | |
Civil Defense Army Duck at Emigrant Lake |
DKW amphibious vehicle painted white with Civil Defense logo, drives into Emigrant Lake / view of driving into lake from front of duck / same view, driving out of lake, back in again, back out again |
1-24-1966 | View Now |
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 | |
Civil Defense Practice Alert |
Teletype machine / Jackson County map / man points at map / man at radio transmitter / man type at teletype / men doing paperwork / man at typewriter |
10-26-1965 | |
Civil Rights Activist James L. Farmer at SOC |
Pan across audience of students / black man speaking at lectern / closeups of same / audience again |
7-14-1966 | |
Clean Up Medford Campaign--Ugly Shots |
Pan up muddy, trashy ditch / trash and debris in fields, yards / paper peeling off Nucoa Margarine billboard, Spomer Co. / closeup pan of trash-strewn roadside / peeling sign: "For Lease or Sale, See Shelby 91 Ross Lane" / tilting propane sign, Sherm's Thunderbird grocery store, Jacksonville Highway, Medford / more of same / junked car in residential yard / pans across junk piles / decrepit cinder block building with "Door Wreaths" and "Xmas Trees" spray-painted on windows, possibly on McAndrews Road, Medford / car parts abandoned by orchard, Roxy Ann in background / trash and concrete along creek |
4-4-1967 | |
Cleaning and Calibrating Thermometers |
Man talking, holding thermometer / cleaning thermometers, putting them in sink full of ice / closeup of temperature dropping on thermometer / more of same / pan across dozens of tagged thermometers, closeup of record form: thermometers are from Klamath, Modoc, Newburg, Scottsburg, Sams Valley, other places / closeup of thermometer / same man talking while working |
3-6-1968 | |
Clearing Landslide from River Road |
Fishermen warm themselves over fire at road construction site in mountains; policeman with police dog in background / road grader clears road / truck with broken windows, wrecked heavy drill / bulldozer at work, loader loads dump truck / pan across site |
2-9-1968 | |
Clearing Rocks from Road |
Semi-trucks backed up on highway (probably Upper Applegate Road between Carberry Bridge and Manzanita Creek--see photo in Medford Mail Tribune, January 30, 1967, page 7) / traffic small steel bridge / deer in field by road / bulldozer at work high atop cut by river, pan down to rocks and dirt on highway / bulldozer at work on highway, pan up to first bulldozer / man sitting at controls of road grader / more of same / clearing road / meeting, Medford council chambers, old city hall / |
2-17-1967 | |
Clone of Grants Pass Sanitation Service; Medford Fire Wardens Do Home Inspections |
Man shovels gravel from roadway into truck / Grants Pass Sanitation Service truck arrives / following sanitation truck through windshield of car / garbage men load trash onto truck / hydraulic compactor panel on truck opens / loaded dump truck speeds past / / fire wardens with Medford Fire Department truck / warden walks to residence, interviews family at doorstep
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5-6-1968 | |
Clown Prince of Baseball; Medford Street Accident |
Closeups of Max Patkin, "clown prince of baseball," in baseball uniform, clowning during night game, Miles Field / / Ford pickup on its side, West Main Street at Ivy, Medford / tow truck tows away station wagon / truck pulls pickup upright with cable / firemen wash away gasoline / policeman directing traffic |
8-12-1969 | |
Cointat Visits Pear Orchard |
Men and woman in pear orchard sampling fruit / pan across orchard / |
7-15-1966 | |
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 | |
Commissioners' Meeting |
Pan across people sitting around table, map-covered walls / Lin Newbry, Bill Mansfield present / shots of people earnestly discussing |
1-10-1969 | |
Commissioners' Meeting; Police Impound Auction; Ashland YMCA Sale |
Jackson County Commissioners meeting: commissioners / pan across audience / closeups of speakers / / people examining 1950s cars / 1940 Ford / policemen schmooze with attendees / auctioneer with cowboy hat and cane / pan across crowd / / YMCA sign on roof of Ashland YMCA building / pan across used TVs / young boys play with typewriter / boys examine clothing / old piano / man selects china, glass dishes / woman arranges plastic flowers / |
9-5-1968 | |
Completing Concrete Work, Medford City Hall |
Men examine blueprints / closeup of blueprints / exterior: man points to city hall, pan across uncompleted building / workers loiter / camera follows concrete bucket to top of building |
12-13-1966 | |
Computer Ballot Class |
Men speaking at front of classroom / listeners in folding chairs / more of same / man from audience demonstrates voting punch card |
10-27-1966 | |
Computer Demonstration; Nurses' Award Presentation |
Man demonstrates Vot-o-matic voting system / demonstrating computer / punch cards going through machine / pulling out printed readout / punch cards being sorted / printing readout / pulling out and examining readout / tour group examining, signing readout / man at control panel / magnetic tape reels spinning / / luncheon scene, nurse smoking / inside hospital patient room / nurse receives pin, returns to seat / nurses at table / nurse with defribrillator / pan across luncheon / speaker |
5-23-1968 | |
Computer Operation; Harvesting and Planting Pine Seedlings |
Tight closeup of computer punch card / technicians handle magnetic tapes, place one on reader / reels spinning / readout / tight pan across keyboard / freshly punched card handed off / stack of cards feeding through reader / printout being printed / tight pan across printout / / faded color, silent: man on tractor, could be J. Herbert Stone Nursery / cutter digging, harvesting pine seedlings / workers boxing seedlings / closeup: grafting seedling / in clearcut woods: man riding behind bulldozer planting seedlings / closeups of same / taking soil sample / helicopter taking off with fertilizer spreader / copter flies by, spreading fertilizer |
5-29-1968 | |
Concrete Sandbag Construction |
Closeup of man carefully positioning cylindrical sandbags end to end around perimeter of foundation of building under construction next to orchard / pan across construction site / man dips sandbag in trash can of water, positions it on perimeter |
9-12-1968 | |
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 | |
Confiscated Beer, Medford Police Evidence Room |
Police station evidence room: inventorying cases of Miller High Life beer |
11-18-1966 | |
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 | |
Congressman Bob Duncan Picnic |
Sign: "Jackson Hot Springs:" / twin-rotor helicopter approaches, lands / man emerges, hugs child / long closeup of sleeping child with "RBD" (Congressman Robert B. Duncan) ribbon on chest |
8-15-1966 | |
Congressman Duncan and Speaker McCormack Speak on Dams |
Congressman Robert Duncan and Speaker John W. McCormack at desk in House of Representatives studio--sound unintelligible |
10-4-1966 | |
Congressman Duncan at Medford Airport |
Congressman Duncan disembarks from propeller airliner, Medford Airport / man holds "Duncan for Senator" sign / Duncan greets supporters waiting at airport / Duncan interviewed on audiotape inside airport terminal |
3-2-1966 | |
Congressman Duncan Campaigns in Medford |
Congressman Duncan stands by van painted with his name, speaks with constituent / interior: Duncan speaks into microphone (no sound on film) |
4-18-1966 | |
Congressman Duncan Sees Applegate Dam Site |
Pan down from Hotel Medford sign / Congressman Duncan stands in front of hotel, gets into car, car leaves / Duncan and two other men at dam site examine map / pan down hill to river / closeup of surveyor's stake |
4-22-1965 | |
Congressman Duncan Voting, 1966 Primary Election |
Sign: "Vote Here," pan to Hedrick Junior High School on building / Congressman Bob Duncan, wearing cowboy hat and Levi jacket, walks past sound camera team up to school entrance / interiors: enters building, registers with poll watchers / scene in gymnasium: tables, voting booths |
5-24-1966 | |
Congressman Robert B. Duncan Arrives, Medford Airport |
Twin-engine propeller-driven United Airlines plane taxis toward camera / Congressman Robert B. Duncan walks down stairs |
8-13-1965 | |
Congressman Robert B. Duncan at Medford Airport |
Duncan walks toward camera on tarmac, Medford Airport / closeups of Duncan chatting on tarmac |
7-16-1965 | |
Congressman Robert B. Duncan on Boxcar Shortage |
Congressman Robert B. Duncan at desk, speaking on boxcar shortage |
9-24-1965 | |
Congressman Robert B. Duncan on Sucker Creek Project |
Congressman Duncan at a desk discussing bill to fund Sucker Creek project--the Illinois River division of the Rogue Basin Project |
3-2-1965 | |
Congressman Robert B. Duncan on Veterans Administration Domiciliary |
Congressman sits at desk and relates his arguments for keeping the VA Domiciliary open |
4-5-1965 | |
Congressman Robert B. Duncan Talks with Driver and Teague about Camp White |
Congressman Robert B. Duncan and two other men sit at desk and discuss decision to keep VA Domiciliary open |
6-8-1965 | |
Construction at Olson Lawyer Lumber Inc. |
Exterior: SOTIA--Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association headquarters, man in front / man holding display board: "Lumber Production" / closeup pan down board: "slabs/edgings (chips), planer shavings, bark (garden mulch)" / pan down another board: "Plywood Products: How Plywood Is Laid Up" / another: "Sawmill Products: dimension, boards, finish, industrial remanufacturing" / another: "Other Wood Products: sawdust, shavings, chips, particle board, pulp & paper, silvachemicals, posts & poles, fuel" / log truck on Crater Lake Highway overpass / Olson Lawyer Lumber Inc. mill building / pan across mill yard with wigwam burners / more pans across mill yard / carpenter at work on mill building / interior of idle mill, welder at work / bandsaw blades / carpenters at work on mill / executive gets explanation of switchbox / boxcar at chip loading station |
10-17-1966 | |
Construction of 3M White City Plant |
Shot of White City 3M plant from moving car / VIPs in hard hats inspect progress of construction, tip-up concrete slabs in place / closeups of VIPs in suits and hard hats / crane tips up concrete panel, men jockey it into place / more VIPs / pan across consruction site |
7-15-1965 | |
Construction of Fort Vannoy Job Corps Training Center, Grants Pass |
Pan across building site, some buildings nearly completed / pan up sewer pipe laid in ditch / foundation forms under construction / man operating table saw / man compacting soil / carpenters at work on building / interior: men insulating building / nailing plywood to interior / more pans across construction site |
7-14-1965 | |
Construction of Howard Prairie Lake Boat Basin |
Long shot of power shovel at work on end of earthen dam in water / dump truck drives by / Jackson County logo on truck door / closeup of shovel bucket swinging by / pans of construction site, shovel and dump trucks at work |
12-10-1965 |