Films
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Description | Publication date | Online link |
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ZOOMSI Plane Arrives with Leopard Cub, Medford Airport |
Banner on plane, Medford Airport: "Zoo Portland Oct. 28-29 + OMSI = ZOOMSI" / twin propellers on plane stop / "Lynn Mucken, Press" on man's sash, shakes hands with Mayor Dunlevy / more dignitaries with sashes disembark: Jean Watson, Will Jonny, others illegible / Dunlevy holds leopard cub, others do likewise including small girls |
8-29-66 | |
Zoning Hearing; Ashland Rural Area |
Exterior: Ashland Junior High School / interior: pan across audience / man with pointer and large maps on easel / more pans across audience, more shots of speakers / audience members stand up and speak |
6-2-1965 | |
Yreka Quarterhorse Show |
Exteriors: pan across fairgrounds, bleachers, horses and people waiting to compete / shots of horses being shown in arena / woman handing out ribbons / woman rides horse around course / |
6-29-1965 | |
YMCA Open House |
Building exterior, YMCA on building / lobby / people in judo outfits exercising, tumbling / pool, pan up to ceiling, balcony / pan across people touring facility / sign: Physical Activities at Your YMCA with list of activities |
10-18-1965 | |
YMCA Grand Opening; Roseburg Parade |
Luncheon scene: man speaking at lectern, shots of dais / pan from back of room / succession of speakers / / pan across exterior of Medford YMCA buidling / VIPs arrive / pan across brass plaque / banquet in gymnasium / more VIPs / Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield, Otto Frohnmayer / / Roseburg parade on NE Winchester: mounted color guard / Hatfield in open car / Grants Pass Cave-ettes / Cavemen / Roseburg Merkettes / mounted sheriff / sign of Howard Chaney Distributing Co. visible For more footage of luncheon, see SOHS Film No. 1543 |
6-24-1969 | |
Yarding Logs; Pigeon Problem |
Crane yarding logs at log deck / men conferring at pickup truck, log decks towering in background / closeup pan across log decks to crane / logs on log truck / man scaling logs / log trucks at weighing station / crane loading truck from deck / / pan across hundreds of pigeons on roof of downtown Medford building / VIPs in suits point to roof / pigeons in flight, landing on roof, pan across roof / more of same / |
12-5-1968 | |
WWII Navy Combat Footage |
Good color, silent: Navy fighter planes flying in formation / pan across fleet of destroyers and freighters / gunsight camera footage of dogfights over ocean / destoyer firing guns |
6-19-1969 | |
Wreckers--U.S. National Bank and Senior Citizens Buildings |
Pan across U.S. Bank building, Main and Central, Medford, under demolition / shot of man walking on roof / wrecking ball working on interior / E. S. Ritter House Wreckers, Salem truck / Man with torch cuts window frame / men on second floor / man rides wrecking ball from roof / crane pulls down third-floor wall / pan across site / senior center building with PayLess Drug Store in background / interior of building, roof gone / pan across exterior, man dropping corrugated tin panels to ground |
1-28-1965 | |
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 | |
Wrecked Volkswagen Beetle; Maltese Cross Pears at Medford Airport |
Wrecked Volkswagen Beetle / closeups, pans, interior shot / / VIPs examine "Maltese Cross" pears on trunk of Ford Thunderbird parked at Medford Airport terminal, pan up to control tower / pan across parking lot / they pack pears back into box, put it in trunk of car, have trouble getting trunk closed |
2-21-1967 | |
Wrecked Crop Duster; Senator Wayne Morse on Log Exports to Japan |
Debris on ground, pan to wrecked crop duster Cessna airplane, man repairing fence / pans across damaged plane, N9734V / men repairing power lines in distance / / sound: Senator Wayne Morse talking about upcoming hearings to protect Oregon lumber mills from log sales to Japan https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=128769 Aero Ag, Inc. owner, accident took place on takeoff at 2:10 p.m. January 6, 1968, preparing to dust bluegrass. One occupant, no fatalities |
1-8-1968 | |
Wrecked Cars |
Pan across wrecked Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, doors roped together / boy rushes up to peer inside / more pans / pan across wrecked Corvette in garage |
9-6-66 | |
Wrecked Car; Southern Oregon College Hannon Library Construction |
Mangled automobile in garage / closeup of broken windshield, bent steering wheel / Florida license plate / pans across damage / / VIP poses in front of Hannon Library, Southern Oregon University, under construction / pan across construction site / same man at Enco service station on Siskiyou Boulevard, Ashland |
10-13-1967 | |
Wrecked Car; Medford Pharmacy Burglary Aftermath |
Pans across wrecked 1955 Chevrolet sedan, closeups / / exterior, West Main Pharmacy, Medford / back door broken off hinges, closeup pans / interior of pharmacy storeroom / interior of pharmacy behind counter, empty spot where safe was / public area / grinning pharmacist points to missing safe |
1-30-1967 | |
Wrecked Car; Horse Show; Walk with a Pet Bear |
Men walk to emergency vehicles on side of road / wrecked Chevrolet Impala convertible on mountainside / closeups of car / / horses being led from stables (northern California?) / smiling woman with ribbon / / group walks with young bear, wearing collar, by side of mountain lake / closeup of bear closely following them / man teases bear / bear explores lake shore / bear nuzzles man / man and bear play-fight / man climbs tree, bear follows |
5-8-1967 | |
Wrecked Car |
Smashed-in front of car in field / pans across car / interior shot |
10-20-1966 | |
Wrecked Airplane |
Men examine wrecked private plane, area north of Medford Airport / closeups of damage to plane / hand chips away snow and ice on wing / shots of damage |
1-29-1968 | |
Wrecked 1955 Chevrolet |
Front end of 1955 Chevrolet that had been driven into a utility pole / pans, closeups of damage |
3-3-1967 | |
Wreck on I-5 |
Pans across damaged guard rail / closeups of debris / grille of wrecked late 1950s Plymouth / closeups of interior of car / extreme closeup of grille |
10-11-1966 | |
Work on Eighth Street Railroad Crossing; Agriculture B Roll |
Flagman at Eighth Street railroad crossing, Medford / man with jackhammer, pan to stack of new railroad ties / closeup of jackhammer at work / closeup of ties, new section of track already assembled / men at work on crossing as cars pass / / windy day: slow pans across field of waving wheat / tight closeup of wheat / tight closeup of alfalfa, pan up to shot across field / pan across corn field / tight closeup of emerging corn tassel Holddown tape reads: "Agriculture (Green Belt) 1:43" |
6-28-1968 | |
Wood Shavings Fire |
Pan across site, smoke in distance, fire truck in foreground / closeup of burning pile, road grader drives past cutting fire line / pan across fire trucks, firemen |
8-26-66 | |
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 | |
Women Stuff Ditty Bags at Red Cross |
Women at work in warehouse / pan across items for bags: nail clippers, soap boxes, wash cloths / closeup of women at work / |
10-13-1966 | |
Women Pilots Group at Medford Airport |
Private plane taxis at Medford Airport / group of women waiting on tarmac / woman emerges from airplane, waves, greets waiting women / banner: "Welcome 99S" / another woman emerges from another airplane See Medford Mail Tribune, September 12, 1965, page 8. |
9-10-1965 | |
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 | |
Woman Receives Recognition; Brush Fire Demonstration; Truck Accident |
Woman at lectern is applauded, handed plaque, shakes hands / exterior: she displays plaque, shakes more hands, closeup / / truck parked in field, "Fire-Weather Mobile Station U.S. Dept. of Commerce Weather Bureau" painted on side of camper shell / man operates bushwhacker in grassy field, Medford Airport area / VIP with bullhorn / Forest Service personnel mill about, one wears "John Grove, Grants Pass" label / twin-rotor helicopter demonstrates dropping water / / wreck of two semi-trucks, White City area, water tower in background / spectators / closeup of severe damage, wreckage on road / more rubberneckers |
5-26-1967 | |
Woman Drives Bulldozer; Courthouse Meeting |
Woman at controls of bulldozer / she drives while being instructed by man standing beside her / speaker at lectern / /.different speaker, Jackson County courthouse auditorium / slow pan across listeners / speaker again (film badly developed) / listeners again, man lights cigarette |
2-27-1969 | |
Woman Celebrates 100th Birthday |
Very old woman (centenarian?) in hospital bed holding carnation, speaking / nurse talks with her / |
11-14-1967 | |
Witham's Truck Stop Strike |
Strikers on roadside with sign: "Withams Truck Stop Cafe Are Not Provided Benefits, Please Do Not Patronize" / pans across Witham's truck stop, restaurant, strikers |
2-7-1967 | |
Witham's Truck Stop Opens |
Pan across Witham's Truck Stop / Mayor Dunlevy cuts ribbon, backed by dignitaries / shots of crowd waiting to enter building / dignitaries outside / Reo truck for sale / interior, sign on truck: "Jackson County Log Truckers Association" |
3-16-1966 | |
Winter Dome Booth, Medford Shopping Center |
Shot from moving car passing by Medford Shopping Center, Sears / stationary pan across shopping center: World Wide Camera, J. K. Gill / setting up tables with banner: "Eat for the Winter Dome/Pronto Pups 5c, Floats 5c" in front of J. J. Newberry's / man on ladder wiring 2x4 to ceiling / more of same |
7-7-66 | |
Winter Dome Booth, Medford Shopping Center |
Exteriors: Crowded Medford Shopping Center scene / pan along long line of people waiting at Winter Dome booth / closeups of servers in action making hot dogs, drinks / people eating / pan along line / closeup of server speaking |
7-8-66 | |
Winifred Coleman Mallinckrodt Award; Ashland YMCA; Banquet |
Earl Miller speaks at dais / more speakers / pan across audience / / man presents engraved tray to young lady / closeup of tray: "Mallinckrodt Award presented to Mrs. Winifred E. Coleman Oregon Technical Institute School of Radiologic Technology" / / "YMCA" sign on top of building, pan down to smaller YMCA sign, side of Shakespeare Festival Elizabethan Theater / pan down Wonderstone YMCA building / / banquet scene: people wearing name tags schmoozing / woman wearing corsage |
9-28-1967 | |
Windy Day Footage; Medford VIPs; I-5 Fender-Bender |
C-54 Skymaster airliner landing at Medford Airport / U.S. Weather Bureau building / residence with chickens in yard, pan up to trees / traffic lights swinging in wind / / VIP walking up stairs to entrance of old Medford City Hall / interior: VIPs chat in front of map of Medford / / smashed front of Dodge on rainy Medford I-5 viaduct / smashed front end of sports |
10-2-1967 | |
Winching Car Near River, Wreck at Central Point Exit |
Policeman and tow truck driver attach cable to compact foreign car at bottom of highway embankment near river / car is winched to two-lane road, bridge in background / attaching cable to 1956 Chevrolet wrecked off I-5 Central Point exit / police at "Central Point/Blackwell Rd./Willow Springs Rd." sign / winching car to road |
9-29-1966 | |
William Frye, Candidate for U.S. Congress |
Closeups of Frye talking, listening / |
3-3-1966 | |
Wigwam Burner B Roll; Placing Concrete Beams |
Wigwam burner, pan across lumber mill to wigwam burner with cyclones on top / "Olson Lawyer Lumber" on building / closeup of wigwam burner, pan to another / top of burner, pan down to chip conveyor / small pile of wood waste / first wigwam burners again, from different angle / / concrete structure on hilltop (reservoir?) under construction / pan down from crane to dirt road / semi trucks and road grader on road / hitching cable to front of truck, pulling it with road grader / concrete beams on trailer / placing concrete beams with crane |
5-14-1969 | |
White City Water Tower; Airport Parking Construction |
White City water tower / telephoto view of scaffolding on top / long view again / men working on railing / pan across Medford Airport / grader, front end loader at work at airport parking area / road grader with control tower in background / pan across construction scene to radome / surveyors |
5-26-1969 | |
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 | |
White City Pool; Arden Farms Offices; Josephine County School District Dignitary |
People in waiting room uneasily lounging, snacking, smoking under gaze of camera / / White City public swimming pool, views from outside, through chain-link fence / / Neon sign: "Arden Farms Co.," pan down to man walking up sidewalk / he stands at door, speaks, enters, pan up to sign / / sign outside building: "Josephine County School District" / dignitary walks past sign to sidewalk, poses |
6-7-1967 | |
White City Lumber Mill; Medford Airport Control Tower |
Pans across log deck beside road, wigwam burner in background, White City area / Hyster carrying logs / more of same / crane lifts wheels onto back of log truck / more pans of log deck / / control tower, Medford Airport / pan across interior of tower / man reads teletype / controllers at consoles / tarmac from tower / ground-level shot of plane on runway, tower again |
9-12-1967 | View Now |
White City Day Care Center; AAU Girls Swim Meet |
Preschool classroom full of children led in dancing and jumping / eating lunch around tables: girl with black eye / sign: "White City Day Care Center" / / Jackson Pool: young girl swimmers dive into lanes, breaststroke across pool / judge shows record sheet: "Girls AAU Entry Card" |
6-27-1969 | |
White City Car Wreck; Wind Storm Damage |
Closeup of rear-view mirror on ground / ditto of broken glass, pan to wrecked 1950s car on side of HIghway 62, in White City next to Cascade Village billboard / closeups of car / shot through cracked glass / tow truck arrives / / shot of tree, pan down to broken limbs on ground / closeups of broken limbs / street signals swaying in wind, sign in background painted on Johnson-Childers Building, Main and Riverside Medford: "Ballroom Dance Studio and Figure Reducing Salon" / wind sock blowing at Medford Airport / wind indicator dials at weather station / meteorologist points at weather map |
1-19-1967 | |
White City Auto Accident |
Pan across front end of heavy International Harvester truck to demolished 1957 Chevrolet sedan and 1950s DeSoto station wagon--White City, Highway 62 and Highway 140, Union 76 service station, Cascade Shopping Center in background / policemen examine damage / passengers, rubberneckers mill about / closeups of damage |
7-27-1967 | |
West Eighth Street, Medford |
View east on Eighth Street at Columbus / view west, same place / signs: "City Center, Right Turn Only" / sign: "Do Not Enter" / view east on Eighth Street in front of Federal Building, pan to Federal Building (Vawter mansion in background) |
9-21-66 | |
West Coast Shot Company Shot Tower Collapse |
CBS Sunday News anchor Gerald Harrington introduces Hank Henry-narrated clip of collapse of shot tower at 4902 McLoughlin Drive, Central Point. Andy Lane rode the tower down, survived. |
circa 1976 | |
West Coast Airlines, Medford Airport; Medford Post Office Mails Zip Code Notices |
Passenger jet takes off, Medford Airport / West Coast Airlines ticket desk / sign: "Now! West Coast Airlines Daily Nonstop DC-9 Fan Jet Service to San Francisco Only 52 Minutes" / arrivals-departures board, pan to customer at desk / airliner taxiing on runway / / post office interior: nervous man in suit holding mailer about Zip Code / postal employees sorting Zip Code mailers / closeup of mailer: "This Is Your Zip Code 97501" |
9-19-1967 | |
West Coast Airlines Show DC-9 Model to Medford Mayor Dunlevy |
Mayor Dunlevy in his office discusses DC-9 model with executives / pan across execs / Dunlevy admires model with grinning stewardesses, execs |
8-1965 | |
West Coast Airliner Under Repair; Rep. John Dellenback with Young Visitors; Men Play Catch |
Long shots of West Coast Airliner on tarmac, mechanics working on wing root, telephoto view / views of same from above / / Rep. John Dellenback on steps of U.S. Capitol with teenagers / pan from Capitol dome to Dellenback talking to young woman / Medford Airport: West Coast ticket counter, young men in suits examining brochures / / grown men playing catch in parking lot with man in Giants baseball uniform (more footage of this in SOHS Film 0940) / closeup of uniformed guy throwing |
3-15-1967 | |
Wesley Tuttle Sings "Yodeling Boogie" |
Snader Telescriptions musical number: "Yodeling Boogie" by Wesley Tuttle and his Westerners Wesley Tuttle, backed by quintet, sings in "barnyard"--woman seated on floor claps along. Tuttle introduces band as they perform their solos. |
1950 |