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).
Title (click to view details) | Description | Publication date | Online link |
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Norman O. Nilsen |
Pan across weedy embankment, vacant lot / / sign: “Bureau of Labor, Norman O. Nilsen, Commissioner” / Nilsen speaks to camera, stands uneasily with other VIP / flirts with secretary / uncomfortable schmoozing in office |
12-26-1968 | |
School Crossing Guards Take Oath |
Man and young children with hands raised, taking oath / policeman pinning badges on crossing guards' Sam Browne belts / pan across new crossing guards
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12-17-1968 | |
Courthouse Meeting, Hilton Road Junkyard; Making Christmas Wreaths |
Man in audience, Jackson County Courthouse auditorium / pan across men at dais / speakers in audience / closeup of map, Hilton Road and Crater Lake Highway / man standing on approach to Hilton Road overpass, pan to junked cars in muddy field, Interstate 5, Witham's signs in background / more of same / “Medford-Crater Lake” Interstate sign, pan to junked cars from across freeway / / women assemble Christmas wreaths / man cutting greenery / women make ribbon bows / assembling wreaths
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12-12-1968 | |
Peace Posters; Post Office Award |
Graffiti on post, Alba Park, Medford: “The Rights of Man Key to Peaceful Community” / young people in raincoats attaching poster to fence / poster: “1968 International Year for Human Rights” / homemade poster: “1968 Human Rights Peace / young women display other homemade posters: “Change To Make the World One,” “New Directions,” “Come on People, Smile on Your Brothers,” “Help Peace the World Together,” peace sign, Gene McCarthy / / mailman in U.S. Mail truck behind post office, drives off / postmaster Al Bradford and another man display “Certificate of Achievement”
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12-10-1968 | |
Jacksonville Storefront Museum; Shriner Parade; Christmas Tree Lot |
People polishing wood cook stove in museum display / “Ye Olde Bakery Shop” sign in window, pan to woman on sidewalk / cakes in shop window / pan across exhibit / / Ashland Shriner band parading on East Main Street, Medford, under viaduct with U.S., Canada and Mexico flags / Ray Frisbie dignitary car / Shriner drum band / Shriners on bicycles / / woman examining Christmas tree in lot / closeup of woman / conferring with tree seller / rejecting skimpy tree / paying seller / closeup of hand examining foliage
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12-9-1968 | View Now |
Doctor; Courthouse Meeting |
Doctor in lab coat working at desk / closeup / more of same / on phone / / man speaking, Jackson County Courthouse auditorium / pan across audience / speaker / audience / more of same
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12-6-1968 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 |
Bear Creek Valley Sanitary Authority Office |
Sign: "Bear Creek Valley Sanitary Authority" / pan across lot and building / man sitting at desk, answering phone, pan to secretary / map of Bear Creek Valley on wall / man at desk again / secretary / more of same |
11-8-1968 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Removing Ashland Parking Meters |
Man in hard hat beats parking meter with hammer, removes head / pan across pickup bed full of parking meters / removing another meter, East Main Street near Plaza, Ashland, Bob's Lunch, 58 E. Main, visible in background / vacant meter pole |
10-31-1968 | View Now |
Eagle Point High School Assembly; Work on Barnett and Stewart Intersection |
"Eagle Point High School" painted on gymnasium / man speaking at microphone on gym floor / pans across high school students in bleachers / speaker seen from behind / speaker from front / / freeway sign: "Barnett Road/Medford/Rogue Valley Manor-Memorial Hospital" / generator, cement truck parked at Barnett and Stewart, pouring cement, fairground buildings in background / backhoe digging ditch / directing traffic through intersection, Chevron station and Jerry's Restaurant in background |
10-29-1968 | |
Robert Conrad Makes Guest Appearance |
Pan up waiting crowd / crowd revealed to be behind celebrity Robert Conrad in "Wild Wild West" costume inside large department store / Conrad tips hat to camera / Conrad at table signing autographs, pan to waiting crowd |
10-28-1968 | |
Rock Band Arrives at Medford Airport; GM Test Vehicle |
Young, bearded disembarking passengers walk from United airliner N37583 past camera / excited young spectators, including girls beauty queens wearing tiaras / long shot of rear stairs of airliner / excited spectators / / color, faded to red and yellow, sound: General Motors "laboratory on wheels" car driving on huge paved test ground / view from above of car driving with all-wheel steering on gridded lot: "it sidles off like a crab" / driver wearing helmet / car driving through pylons / elaborate control panel / onboard computer behind nest of wires / car driving figure 8s on grid / more driving between pylons First clip is apparently big men and women of SOC campus waiting for Neil Diamond to disembark. Diamond performed at Ashland High School for Southern Oregon College homecoming. Photo in Medford Mail Tribune, October 24, 1968, page 6. |
10-24-1968 | |
Air Pollution Hearing; Ribbon Cutting at Medford City Hall |
Pan across judges, court reporter / view of courtroom from back of room / pan across audience / smoke and steam emitting from stacks of lumber mill, log truck drives by / / speaker at lectern, open air / pans across standing audience, Medford City Hall grounds / speaker again / view of scene with city hall in background / VIPs take scissors from box held out by young woman / they simultaneously cut ribbon |
10-24-1968 | |
Grand Opening Medford Gas Station; Color Photocopier Demonstration |
VIPs standing in front of new Shell service station, pan up to sign / Model A Ford drives through enormous paper imprinted with Shell logo, VIPs applaud / repeat of same / Mayor Dunlevy and other VIPs schmooze, wander around, shake hands, pan up to Shell sign / gassing up car / / color, faded to red and yellow: woman places paper on Xerox color photocopier, she removes color copy and compares it with original for camera / she places successive color pages in front of camera / view of photocopier |
10-23-1968 | View Now |
Wayne Morse Campaign Headquarters; Halloween Costumes |
Men installing banner on California Street building, Jacksonville: "Independent Republicans for Wayne Morse" / / children posing in Halloween costumes in front of Medford Center fountain |
10-23-1968 | |
Employment Service Trailer; City of Rogue River; Grave Creek Bridge |
Man standing in door of Oregon State Employment Service trailer / "Rogue River Post No. 4116 VFW" on building / trailer and tow vehicle / man at desk in trailer filling out form / poster on wall of trailer: "Step up to Job Corps" / main streets of Rogue River: Jackie's Restaurant, Rogue River Cleaners, Rogue River TV Service, Cafe, Ron's, Richfield gas, The Hub, post office visible / / Boy Scouts color guard / Josephine County Historical Society historic marker for Grave Creek Bridge / covered bridge / old car ("Pottsville Taxi," Debbs Potts at the wheel), dignitaries at bridge / historic marker in front of bridge |
10-22-1968 | |
United Air Lines B Roll |
Customers at United Air Lines counter, Medford Airport terminal / United clerk behind counter / four-propeller United DC-6 airliner N37502 taxiing at airport, people waiting at gate in foreground / airliner taxis up to camera / man climbs stairs, opens cabin door / passengers disembark / |
10-22-1968 | |
Fire Hazards in Medford Fire Hall |
Medford fire chief or fire marshal examines potbelly stove, ash tray, electric heater / stands in front of fire engine / "Fire Dept." on building, pan down to chief and fire engines / chief with stove again (brass fire pole in background), pan along rickety stove pipe to where it enters wall |
10-17-1968 | |
Dam Dedication; Packwood Sign Error; Vietnam Soldiers Charity |
Concrete structure under construction / pans across crowd at construction site in hills (Lost Creek Dam?) / pan across seated high school orchestra / VIPs at dais prepare / VIP speaks at lectern / pan across dais / / woman displays "Bob Packwood for U.S. Senator" poster, pointing at handwritten "for" / Packwood sign on roof of car without "for"; woman writes it in / / children with tables heaped with drawstring hygiene bags, probably for GIs in Vietnam / pan across children |
10-14-1968 | |
Lumber Mill Fire |
"Big Fires" fire safety billboard on lumber mill building / burning lumber, log pond in foreground, wigwam burner in background / pan across smoking ruins, water raining down on cameraman / firemen connecting hoses / firemen in smoking ruins / pan across burning lumber, building / fire engines pumping / pan across same scene |
10-14-1968 | |
Gold Hill Cemetery |
Pans across concrete tombs in cemetery: Edwin Carlisle Stanwood, Josephine Catharine Stanwood / man doing something inscrutable--picking at rotten stump or concrete / pan across cemetery / man presses ear to tombs, smiles / trash on ground / |
10-11-1968 | |
Employment Service Trailer; United Crusade Luncheon |
Man standing by Oregon State Employment Service trailer / closeup of man / legend painted on trailer / pan across trailer / / luncheon scene: man at dais speaks / pan across audience with signs: "North," "Southwest," "Special Events" / VIPs standing in front of pledge board / |
10-10-1968 | |
Pinehurst School; North Medford High School |
Displays on elementary school classroom wall: "Trees," "History's Greatest Feat," "Old Times and Faces" / young male teacher raises window shades / pan across walls, blackboard, young woman peering in / / / pan across North Medford High School entrance / theater building / adults with nametags / woman arranges tray of crudites / pan across crowded cafeteria set up in gymnasium |
10-10-1968 | |
Senators Percy and Packwood Speak; Medford Airport Parking |
Reception line: Illinois Senator Charles H. Percy and Oregon Sen. Bob Packwood shaking hands with line of young women / Percy and Packwood pose with one young woman / banquet scene: Packwood speaks at lectern, Percy on dais / audience stands and applauds / Percy speaks / Percy enters froom / movie cameras on tripods / Percy speaks in front of microphones / Percy and Packwood / ABC cameraman / youthful audience applauds / Packwood speaks / closeup of Percy speaking / / Medford Airport terminal, pan down to "No Parking, Reserved Cafe Mgr." on bumper / pan across parking lot / "Terminal" sign on building, pan to parking lot / more of same / sign: "Medford-Jackson County Airport" / jetliner in distance beyond parked cars / control tower from middle distance, pan to "Public Parking" sign / terminal from distance with parking lot in foreground |
10-10-1968 | |
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 | |
Courtroom Ceremony |
Woman speaking before meeting / closeup of same / other speaker / audience / closeups of judges / court recorder's hands / framed photo on wall / audience shots / judges on bench / speaker / man pins corsage on woman speaker / woman sitting with family / different woman with corsage |
10-7-1968 | |
Medford Concrete Gravel Pit; Medford Steel & Blow Pipe |
Building with signs: "Medford Concrete Construction Div., Sand & Gravel Office" / pan across gravel pit / pans across gravel equipment, dump truck / sign: "Manufactured by Medford Steel & Blow Pipe, Division of Concrete Steel Corp." / interiors: automated welder welding steel parts / closeups of same / man welding / enormous brake bending sheet steel / cutting steel / welder prepares to weld tractor cab / inspecting finished cab, pan across yard full of bulldozer rollbars / man operating lathe / men at drawing board / executives discuss |
10-4-1968 | |
FAA Inspection of Medford Airport |
Men meeting in small office / wind sock, Medford Airport / man walks toward twin-engine DC-3 FAA N60, pan across airfield to pickups parked in distance / pan across terminal, control tower / airliner powers up, taxis away / takes off / According to maam.org, "FAA N60 was used as an airways facility flight check aircraft. In this program the FAA outfitted each aircraft with electronics in a standardized manner and assigned them to various regions of the United States to perform airway facility flight checks and to check the various beacons and instrument landing systems within the assigned areas." FAA N60 was originally R4D-6 50819; is currently being restored in Pennsylvania |
10-3-1968 | |
Earl Miller; Site Work |
Closeup of Earl Miller speaking, Jackson County commissioners meeting / tight closeup of Earl / / man in suit earnestly speaking / picnic scene: picnic table, older couple, small boy / pan across workers wearing hard hats standing around / they walk past camera / man operates small bulldozer/excavator / dump truck dumps dirt / bulldozer operator / man mortars rocks onto concrete structure / pan along concreted and rocked creek bed / man driving tractor with rototiller / bulldozer / men in hard hats, at director's signal, walk past camera again / |
10-2-1968 | |
Lumber Execs Confab |
Passengers disembarking from tail stairs of United Boeing 727 jetliner, walking toward camera / VIPs milling about at picnic table under willow tree, lumber decks in background / pan across schmoozing VIPs wearing name tags, drinking coffee |
10-2-1968 | |
Agate Lake Estates Site Work, Meeting |
Closeup of man wearing pith helmet, bulldozer at work in background / people schmoozing next to pickups parked in hills / bulldozer moving dirt / more of same / people walk across bulldozed area, pan across scene / pans across people standing, listening to speaker / man taking notes, man holding brochure: "Lake Agate Estates" / long shot of scene / |
9-27-1968 | |
Rerailing Derailed Boxcars |
Crane lifting derailed railroad boxcar, Ashland area? / men examining under car, moving wooden beam to put under it / placing wood under car / boxcar in air moving slowly / derailed boxcar / boxcar with one end elevated |
9-26-1968 | |
Cafeteria Meet & Greet |
VIPs schmoozing in cafeteria / pan across cafeteria / main VIP commits more schmoozing |
9-25-1968 | |
Medford Airport Paving; Ashland Demolition |
United Airliner at gate, Medford Airport / families waiting, passengers disembarking / dump truck, road grader, roller as seen through windshield of moving car / earth movers / pickup pulling rotary broom trailer / bulldozers, dump truck, rollers in action, terminal in background / view down middle of runway / machine oiling runway, spreading gravel / view down runway / / bulldozer in lot clearing away last of demolished commercial building / pan across scene / bulldozer shifts rubble |
9-24-1968 | |
Firefighting Foam Demonstration |
Puddle of burning oil / huge inflated canvas hose / foam erupting from end of hose, wind blowing it back from fire / fire is unchanged / pan across fire, foam / foam puts out fire / man speaks to firemen, one wearing "Central Point Fire Department" overalls / front of fire engine / man splashing gasoline on condemned house / man sets house on fire, is startled by explosion / house fully engulfed / spraying foam on house, wind doesn't cooperate / firemen engulfed in foam, directing flaccid canvas tube onto fire / firemen flecked with foam, Talent Rural Fire Department truck in background |
9-19-1968 | View Now |
Children Board School Buses; Medford Business B Roll |
Teens boarding school bus / crowd of kids waiting / pre-teens board bus / / sign: "Entering Central Point, Population 3820, Drive Carefully," pan to Hwy. 99 / sign: "Entering Medford, Population 29,500, Drive Carefully," pan to Hwy. 99 / children diving from diving board at Jackson Pool seen through chain link fence, Medco No. 4 steam engine visible in background / sign: "Speed 20 Miles" / women shoppers on sidewalk / cars parked on North Central, Medford / Apostolic Faith church reader board: "Set Not Your Heart on Earthly Things" / sign: "Next Left Turn" / women in parking lot / traffic at Main and North Central, Medford / South Central, Bamboo Terrace, Rogue Travel Service, Credit Thrift, Montgomery Wards, Town House Cafe visible / California license plate on pickup camper / sign: "Personal Loans" / sign: "Motel, Restaurant Coffee Shop" / traffic on North Riverside, Medford / sign: "24c Burgers" / sign: "50 Acres Zoned C5, 665' Frontage, Will Sell or Lease" / slow pan across vacant lot, Coker Butte and Roxy Ann in background / traffic in Ashland |
9-17-1968 | |
Family Roofing; Celebrity Golf Tournament |
Man and boys laying roof of two-story building under construction / various views of same / / KOBI 5M News station wagon / George "Goober Pyle" Lindsey mugs for camera / celebrities exit car with "Fight Cancer" sign in windshield near Humble Station, 126 North Riverside, Medford, pose for camera; William Gargan present / young women at Hyatt Chalet Motel, 56 North Riverside / pan across scene at country club / men tee off / pans, shots of spectators / |
9-16-1968 | |
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 | |
Southern Oregon Cable Television |
Building with "SO Cable TV" on window, 926 South Grape Street, Medford / cable TV van drives past, pan up building, past spools of cable, to antenna on roof / pan across building / building from across street / man on cherrypicker installing antenna on roof of Medford Hotel |
9-11-1968 | |
Seely Hall, Al Bradford Observe Postal Anniversary |
Seely Hall, seated in office, displays 1920s photo of Pacific Air Transport airplane / closeup of photo / closeup of Medford Postmaster Al Bradford / tight closeups of Seely Hall and unidentified man / 1960s aerial photograph of Medford Airport / exteriors: Hall points to Medford Airport terminal, pan to control tower / closeup of United airliner / "Medford" on control tower / Hall and Bradford at stand microphone with photo, airliner in background |
9-10-1968 | |
Ashland YMCA Auction |
People on sidewalk walk past sign: "YMCA Auction Sat. 1 p.m." / interiors: pans across crowd / auction scenes / pan across crowd, auctioneers |
9-9-1968 | |
Jackson County Meeting |
Meeting: man at dais stands and speaks / chairman speaks / sparse audience, Jackson County Courthouse auditorium / |
9-9-1968 |