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Repair of Railroad Crossing; Jackson School Crossing Guards; Tree Planting at Medford Shopping Center |
Truck in ditch by Table Rock Road near railroad / RR crossing sign, pan down to broken-off signal / locomotive passes / RR equipment, men at work on crossing, traffic passing, Upper Table Rock in background / / child crossing guards in matching raincoats leave entrance of Jackson School in rain / guards at their posts / closeup of very serious crossing guard / children crossing / / fountain, Medford Center shopping center / closeup of excavation, pan to grown tree on back of flatbed truck / crane picks up tree, lowers it into hole / VIPs shake hands with tree in background, pan up tree |
5-9-1967 | |
Paving Interstate 5-Crater Lake Highway Interchange |
Shot from moving car of I-5/Crater Lake Highway interchange under construction / pavers at work / pan across paving scene / closeup of Rogue River Paving Co. asphalt-laying machine / supervisors, men raking asphalt / roller / dump truck |
5-9-1968 | |
SOSC Graduation; Children in Pools; Red Cross Blood Drive |
Pan across audience at Lithia Park bandshell / graduates sitting in front / closeups of grads / more crowd shots / professor at lectern / long shot of bandshell / more of crowd, graduates, now holding umbrellas / / young children paddling at edge of indoor pool, probably Medford YMCA, instructor backs off / children climb ladder out of pool / exterior of YMCA building / children in Hawthorne Park pool, several shots / / VIPs in folding chairs / man has blood pressure checked by nurse / nurse draws blood / men in suits chat with man on gurney as nurse draws blood / |
5-9-1969 | |
Forest Fire Talk; Agriculture Slide Show |
People examine labeled forest fire fighting equipment in classroom / speaker at lectern / tight closeup of speaker / audience shot / / shots in darkened room of screen showing multi-image slide show about agriculture |
5-9-1969 | |
Construction of Medford Post Office and Federal Building |
Sign: "United States Post Office and Federal Building Being Constructed by General Services Administration" / pan across front of building / pan across side of building / closeup of construction worker on scaffolding, pan down to ground / pickup, "Todd Construction Co." painted on door / crane lowers wheelbarrow into basement / pan across back of building |
6-1-1965 | |
Illinois Valley Search Party |
Pan across marshaling yard--parking lot, men on horseback / examining map on car hood / crowd of men in hard hats arrives / pan across line of men at edge of woods / men board helicopter, take off / crowd of men and women walk down line of parked cars / pan across scene--cars, ranch house |
6-1-1966 | |
Medford Merchants and Downtown Scenes |
Downtown Medford scenes: View south under awning of Fluhrer Building at Bamboo Palace restaurant, South Central--Jackson Hotel in background / view north from Craterian entrance, Sheriff's car, Edsel drive by, Packard parked on street / view down Theater Alley from Craterian entrance / view west on same alley from across the street from Craterian / "For Rent" sign in window of 44 South Central, pan to Montgomery Wards building south and across street / view east from Eighth and Central / sign: "Park & Shop Entrance" / dozens of merchants and dignitaries leave Craterian--"Lt. Robinson Crusoe, U.S.N." movie cardboard display by door / view across South Central from Craterian, Fashionette visible / view across alley from Craterian, Pedwin Shoes sign visible |
6-1-1966 | |
Protest Against Norma's Departure; Panelists in TV Studio |
Children with signs: "Norma Loves Children," "Norma Please Don't Abandon Us," "Children Like Norma"; two children on horses, one on tricycle / / closeup of telephone / man types / woman answers phone at typewriter / pan across name signs on dais: Wayne Waykefield, A. L. Nash, Dr. Blackstone, Frank Bash / TV studio: four men at dais / announcer on stool reads papers / pan across men at dais |
6-1-1967 | |
1966 Medford High School Graduation Ceremony |
Pan across audience in Medford High School grandstand / closeup of band / graduates slowly file past camera / pan across graduates in grandstand / speakers at lectern / pan across graduates / speaker / graduates applaud / graduates file past dignitaries, picking up diplomas |
6-10-1966 | |
Oregon Mayors Meet, Play Golf in Medford |
Mayor Dunlevy and other mayors around table in small room / playing golf, Rogue Valley Country Club / woman caddies for Dunlevy |
6-10-1966 | |
Fuel Problems at Medford Airport; Hawthorne Pool; Robert Kennedy Memorial in Medford |
Closeup of hand holding fuel filter, pan down to carburetor / man standing at workbench pointing at filter / more of same / / children splashing in Hawthorne Pool, Medford, jumping in fron edge, various shots, pans / slowmo of boy jumping from diving board / / pan down flagpole to flag at half staff / quiet crowd on Eighth Street at Medford library and city hall--where Robert Kennedy spoke a week before / man speaks at microphone, Navy color guard and Medford City Hall in background / nuns in crowd / Mayor Dunlevy at microphone / shots of crowd / priest reads at microphone / long shot of flag at half staff See SOHS Film 1327 for more footage about fuel problems at Medford Airport See SOHS films 1271, 1315 and 1324 for film of RFK in Medford |
6-10-1968 | |
Medford Carnegie Library Storage Areas |
Interior of Carnegie Library, Medford / pans across interior, public areas: man shelving books, people reading / more pans / storage area downstairs, pan up to peeling paint on ceiling / storage area sign: "Cloud 9 File" / sign: "Staff Restroom," pan to old magazines on shelves / toilet, magazines shelved in bathroom For more library footage, see SOHS Film No. 1530 |
6-10-1969 | |
Medford Library; SOSC Graduation; Courthouse Meeting |
Messy clerical work area: table covered with papers, boxes of files on floor, pan to woman at work trimming poster / brief flash of public area, Medford Library / / VIP in cap and gown speaking at lectern, Lithia Park bandshell / umbrellas go up in crowd / / pan across graduates / speaker again / audience / / pan across dais, Jackson County Courthouse auditorium / sparse crowd / man with pointer at blackboard / |
6-10-1969 | |
Jackson County Budget Hearing |
Interior: Jackson County Courthouse auditorium / County Commissioners (including Earl Miller) / pans across audience and dais / shots of individual speakers at lectern |
6-11-1965 | |
JFK Ambassador Chili Supper, Hawthorne Park |
Pan across people lined up in Hawthorne Park, Medford / closeup of people dishing out food / closeups of people talking / woman performing ethnic dance / women dancing on portable stage in front of large portrait of JFK |
6-11-1965 | |
VIPs Arrive; Medford Post Office; Shakespeare Rehearsal |
Gate 3, Medford Airport, VIPs arrive, shake hands with other VIPs, chat / / closeup of certificate of membership in Mail Users Council / sorting mail, Medford post office / several closeups of same / certificate again / / Elizabethan Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, long shot rehearsal in street clothes under way / closeup of rehearsal, actors exit, director directs / view of rehearsal from above / view of seating area from inside set / more rehearsal shots |
6-11-1968 | |
Oregon Coast Aquarium; Commissioners' Meeting; Boy Scouts Luncheon |
Fair color, silent: hands pull starfish from tank / people walk past display: "Historic Voyages" / teen looks at display: "Oregon Shelf and Slope" / closeup pan of topographic model of Continental Shelf off Oregon coast / teens examine display: "Water Along Our Beaches May Be Colder in Summer Than in Winter!" / man addressing middle school kids in auditorium / closeups of kids / kids look at fish, anemones in tank / display: "Oregon's Marine Resources" / kisd around octopus tank / closeups of octopus / / black and white: Jackson County Commissioners meeting / one man only in audience / commissioners speaking / staff / / pan across luncheon meeting / VIPs take Scout oath in front of "Boypower Manpower" banner / pan across VIPs standing with ribbons around necks / awards presentation |
6-11-1969 | |
Grants Pass Vietnam Soldiers Memorial; Children Get Airplane Rides at Medford Airport |
Parents standing on grass (at Grants Pass?) with sergeant in uniform / servicemen speaking at lectern, pan to parents / parents receive plaque, medal / spectators in folding chairs / another couple receives plaque, medal / / children sign in, weigh themselves on scale, Medford Airport tarmac / teenagers weigh themselves / children watch taxiing private airplane N3088F / children board plane / children exit airplane, walk to camera / children board airplane / children waiting, arriving, signing in / plane taxis away / different airplane (N73081?) arrives, disgorges children |
6-12-1967 | |
Courtroom B Roll |
Closeup of gavel on judge's bench / closeups of court reporter's hands and steno machine / tape scrolling from machine / more of same / hand picks up gavel, strikes block |
6-12-1968 | |
Hawthorne Park Pool, Medford |
Pan across children waiting outside Hawthorne Park pool building / closeups of children / children interact with man at pool counter, paying and filling out paperwork / children frolicking in pool / jumping off diving board / diving and jumping from edge of pool / more of the same / |
6-13-1966 | |
Medford Hawthorne Pool Opening; Duff Water Treatment Plant Construction |
Waiting children mug for camera / children in swimsuits lined up behind ribbon by Hawthorne Pool / man at microphone speaks, dignitaries in folding chairs / Medford Mayor Dunlevy speaks / ribbon cut, children jump into pool / man writes down comments from children / children and parents lined up at Hawthorne Pool building entrance / / dignitary examines model at construction site / hand points out features on crude model: "Robt. A. Duff Water Treatment Plant" / man gestures toward site / men building concrete forms, pans across site, men at work / piping, pan up to Upper Table Rock / ponds under construction / crane in operation / dignitary poses by pipes by side of Table Rock Road / traffic stopped on road The man in the suit at 1:14 is Bob Lee. |
6-13-1967 | |
University Open House |
Good color: Young women unload suitcases, bedrolls from cars, enter dormitory of unidentified university / arriving at elevators / pan across crowds of teens assembling on grass football field / teens eating on grass / tight closeup of teenage boy eating chicken / on theater stage: girls being instructed in pageant choreography / groups of girls and boys pass each other on campus / boy and teacher examine small engine |
6-13-1968 | |
Sewage Treatment Plant; Pioneer Village; Commissioners' Meeting |
Pan across dais, Jackson County Courthouse auditorium / pan across buildings, sewage tanks, treatment pond (Table Rock in background) / young woman sitting on bench, Pioneer Village, Jacksonville / / pan across bored VIPs sitting in commissioners' meeting room, loading pipe, reading paper / Earl Miller / Jackson County Commissioners take seats at dais, Miller absent / Henry Padgham speaks / |
6-13-1969 | |
4H-FFA Sheep Judging, Jackson County Fair |
Children grooming sheep / kids walk sheep to pavilion, Jackson County Fairgrounds / man takes portraits of sheep and owners / inside pavilion: kids hold sheep for judging / pans across people on bleachers / closeups of teens with sheep |
6-13-1969 | |
Construction of Shady Cove Bridge |
Pan across uncompleted Shady Cove bridge, Rogue River / telephoto closeups / crane positions beam on bridge / shots from surface of bridge, workmen positioning beam |
6-14-1965 | |
4-H, FFA Lamb Show at Jackson County Fairgrounds |
Exterior, Jackson County Fairgrounds / closeup of people cutting up cooked meat / pan across crowd waiting for food / in arena, young man shears sheep / lamb wearing winner's cloak / announcer at lectern End of clip is grand champion market lamb, a 117-pound Hampshire, exhibited by Steve Chapman, Talent. (Medford Mail Tribune, June 13, 1965, page 1) |
6-14-1965 | |
Medford Eastside Market Shopping Spree |
Exterior sign: "Eastside Market" / woman enters store / she repeatedly fills arms with groceries and dumps them into cart / woman poses out of breath with full shopping carts / she drinks a Pepsi as checkers tally her haul / total on register: $169.63 / woman poses with long register slip |
6-14-1966 | View Now |
Medford Red Cross Blood Drive |
Interior, Medford Red Cross building: Men in waiting room / nurse drawing blood / volunteers doing paperwork / room full of nurses and people donating blood / waiting room / people drinking coffee and juice / more of the same / |
6-14-1966 | |
Car Accident at Hwy. 62 Interchange; Voting at Fruitdale School; Meeting at Josephine General Hospital |
Attendants, bystanders at wrecked car / pan down embankment from Highway 62 to car, Witham's in background / Medford Ambulance Services attendants prepare gurney, lift patient on gurney to ambulance / Medford police sergeant / attendants lift second victim onto gurney / tight closeup of rotating light on ambulance / / sign on building: "Fruitdale Elementary School" / poll watchers at table (dark, out of focus) / people leave and arrive at school building / / meeting: smoking dignitary at table / nurse in uniform, other people at table / coffee pots, tape recorder on table / exterior: Josephine General Hospital |
6-14-1967 | |
Bear Creek Sewer Meeting, Central Point |
Pan across audience / map of Bear Creek drainage: "Proposed Boundary" / Earl Miller at lectern / more of the same / different speaker at maps / speaker holds up bound reports / man uses overhead projector / |
6-15-1966 | |
Dowsing Demonstration; Children Wait at Medford Hawthorne Pool |
Hand covers disk with cardboard / old man with dowsing rods walks from doorway of house down walk, turns as rods cross / hand covers metal sample with cardboard / man repeats dowsing procedure / / children waiting beside Hawthorne Pool, Medford, view through fence / children waiting at entrance for pool to open / pool staff wait, clean pool / |
6-15-1967 | |
Domiciliary "Thank You" Celebration |
View down veterans domiciliary street / "Veterans Administration" painted on car door" / pan across crowd in auditorium, several men in wheelchairs near stage / papers are lit in trash can on stage, audience applauds / men at lectern (including Mayor Dunlevy) shake hands |
6-16-1965 | |
Medford Bicycle Riders |
Shots of Medford bicycle riders, taken unawares from interior of parked and moving car: children ride bikes on residential street / on sidewalk at Main and Central / on West Sixth by Federal Building / child crosses West Fourth on Ivy on bicycle too big for him / following same child up Ivy / same neighborhood: man rides bicycle on street |
6-16-1966 | |
Forest Service on Fire Danger; Jacksonville Pioneer Village, Pioneer Days Queens |
Forest Service men examine large forest map / sign on map: "Forest Fire Danger Today" / man pulls dry grass in field / man lights handful of grass on dirt road (looks like Forest Service headquarters on Table Rock Road) / closeup of burning grass (exciting!) / man speaks / / people lined up in front of George McUne's stagecoach / Queen Mitzi doles out drinks of water / scenes at Pioneer Village, Jacksonville / men clean grounds / closeup of mules hitched to coach / pan across beauty queen and princess / man prepares griddles, apparently for pancake feed / / firemen on roof of partly burned garage / boy watches, pan to children on horseback |
6-16-1967 | |
Medford Fender-Bender; Stretched Stage Visits Medford Auto Dealer |
Street sign: West Eighth and Newtown, Medford / wrecked pickup, bystanders, police directing traffic / policeman interviews driver / / auto dealer lot (name begins with "W"--Walker?): dignitaries including Medford Mayor Dunlevy in pith helmets examine Stageway stretched station wagon bearing banner: "longest deals in town" / they examine engine, get inside and doff hats |
6-16-1967 | |
Jackson County Vector Control; Jacksonville Pioneer Days |
Man hoses abandoned concrete structure / pickup truck: "Mosquito Control" / / VIP standing by mosquito control truck speaks / pickup drives down country lane, spraying ditch / closeup of spraying water in ditch as truck approaches cameraman / pan along ditch / man examines water sample from concrete structure / truck again / pan starts gasoline-powered pump in back of pickup / spraying concrete again / / man shoes horse / tourists wander downtown Jacksonville / children sitting on curb / cotton candy maker / Boy Scouts in parade / old cars parade down California Street / |
6-16-1969 | |
Oregon VFW Convention at Grants Pass High School |
Pan across Grants Pass High School auditorium, "Home of the Cavemen" painted on building / interior pans across crowd, shots of speakers at dais / color guard marches up aisle / |
6-17-1965 | |
Jackson County Budget Hearing |
Exterior: entrance to Jackson County Courthouse auditorium / interiors: shots of audience, speakers / Earl Miller at lectern / blackboard covered with figures / more of the same |
6-17-1966 | |
Medford City Council Meeting |
Councilors at desks: Mayor Dunlevy, Cunningham / audience / more of the same |
6-17-1966 | |
Medford Airport Site Work; Rooster Crow Parade in Jacksonville |
VIPs point in distance, pan to pipe laid in ditch / grader and bulldozer leveling field / passenger jet taking off over cameraman / earthmover at work / more VIPs pointing / United Airlines propeller plane N37571 taxis by / / horsemen riding down California Street, Jacksonville Tavern in background / sparse spectators / Pioneer Village stagecoach / dance hall girls dancing in wagon / ponies pulling wagon / more equestrians ride by / children in pioneer costume dodge road apples / old cars / man pulls child on wagon with "Unknown Chicken Thief" sign / convertible carrying Rooster Crow court, throwing candy |
6-17-1968 | |
Vietnam War Flag Presentation; Civil Air Patrol Free Flights |
Color guard marches, Santo Center, Medford / flag presented to young woman / spectators in folding chairs / reservists march past spectators / / Civil Air Patrol cadets under shade canopy by Medford Airport tarmac, N6551X in background / young man in antique flying cap clowns for camera / children disembark from private plane / children are weighed together on freight scale, plane fueled in background Woman in polka dots is Shirley A. Vasey, 29 S. Peach, receiving medals awarded posthumously to her son, Michael S. Colins, 19, killed in Vietnam, presented (wearing helmet) by Lt. Col. William Tycer. At her side is Chaplain Edward G. Wulfekuehler. Photo in Medford Mail Tribune, June 17, 1968, page 9. |
6-17-1968 | |
Machinists Union Picketers; Dodgers at Miles Field |
Picketer walks near building / building with rotating CSC sign, picketers on sidewalk / picketer walks toward camera wearing sign: "On Strike--Unfair to Machinists Union Local 1468" / / Dodgers baseball players warm up, Miles Field / pan across pitcher and players in outfield / batter htting fungoes / pitcher warms up / batters warm up / / same strikers as on beginning of reel, walking on sidewalk in front of same building, Toyota dealership in background / rotating sign: "Tru-Mix Construction; Medford Steel & Blowpipe; Concrete Pipe," 1109 Court Street, Medford / picketers on dirt road / |
6-17-1969 | |
Practice for Ashland Water Carnival, Emigrant Lake |
Man and two girls in boat at dock, drive across lake / they pass in front of camera, wave / water skiers pass in front of camera / closeup of man strapped into kite / shots from boat as man sails with kite Man under kite is Lon Skinner. See photo, Medford Mail Tribune, June 13, 1965, page B8. |
6-18-1965 | |
Rose Society Rose Show, Grants Pass |
Giant rose float on back of truck, sign: "Pacific Northwest District American Rose Society Convention & Show" / sign: "Larry's Restaurant" / interior: room full of roses in vases / pan across prizewinners on display, closeup of winning rose, silver tea set / happy winner in suit / pan across roses |
6-18-1965 | |
Medford Railroad Crossing; Firemen Hose Down Gasoline Spill |
VIPs standing Main Street railroad crossing, Medford, pan to short train passing, back to men, back to car driving over tracks / VIPs schmoozing on sidewalk / closeups of cars and people crossing tracks / RR crossing sign, pan down to VIPs / / closeup of flashing lights at night / night: men doing inscrutable things in dark / hand holding gasoline hose / closeup of flow gauge / firemen hosing down street in dark / flashing lights again |
6-18-1968 | |
Jacksonville School Board Meeting |
Jacksonville School building exterior / parking area, gymnasium / sign on tree: "No Horses Allowed" / meeting in gymnasium, folding tables in semicircle / pans across spectators / pans across commissioners at tables / spectator speaks / commissioners / more of same / long shot of scene / grinning young girl sitting by drinking fountain, taking notes |
6-18-1969 | |
Sensible Eating PSA; Crater Lake Meeting |
Color completely faded to red, sound: quick cuts of construction workers wolfing down lunch / "Eating plenty is not always eating well" / Workers laying out banquet on steel beam: "Find a quiet nook, relax--eat a sensible, nutritious meal that will keep your diet and you balanced" (message from American Lung Association) / / good color, silent: pan across parking lot, Crater Lake / black and white: luncheon / VIP speaking at lectern |
6-18-1969 | |
End of Bartenders Strike; Kiwanis Meeting; Bear Creek Corporation |
Men and young woman gleefully destroying picket signs, setting them ablaze, shaking hands, watching them burn / sign: "Don's Hideaway," 1182 Court Street (current site of King Wah) / / same luncheon scene as SOHS No. 1537 / man speaking at Kiwanis lectern / / pan across pear orchard / closeup of tree / Harry and David packing building / new H&D office building For more footage of Kiwanis luncheon, see SOHS Film No. 1537 For footage at beginning of bartender's union strike, see SOHS Film No. 1520 |
6-18-1969 | |
Jacksonville Pioneer Days Parade Participants; New Van at Ashland Fire Department |
Children in cowboy outfits wander arouind Pioneer Village, Jacksonville / "prospector" / Pioneer Days parade participants ride past Pioneer Village: people in cowboy or Indian garb on horseback / costumed Arabian horse and rider / Queen Mitzi on horseback / clown dusts off horse / / new Ashland Fire Department Salvage & Rescue Truck No. 9 poses for camera / fireman opens doors to reveal generator, blower, blankets, Sawzall, supplies inside van |
6-19-1967 | |
Grape Street, Medford; Grants Pass Labor Strike |
People wander on sidewalk, South Grape Street, Medford, Labor Temple Pharmacy, Tumy Insurance visible / strikers picket Disco Gas service station, Medford / picketers with signs: "Strike On, Unfair to Organized Labor," "Local 265 on Strike," "No Contract, No Work," "We Want to Work," "Locked Out, We Want to Work" / Caveman Plaza sign / pan across Mayfair Market / Safeway sign, pan to picketer |
6-19-1967 |