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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Grass Fire; Replacing Jet Engine; Applegate School |
Grass fire by road, East Medford area / lifting engine onto tail of AirWest jet airliner, Medford Airport / / pan across grass fire / closeup of burning weeds by fence / helicopter with bucket arrives / helicopter at low altitude, pan across countryside / copter returns / / sign: "Applegate School" / pan down from belfry to door / teacher in classroom, bored students / students at tables / For footage of removing jet engine, see SOHS Film No. 1589 |
9-3-1969 | |
Oregon State Police Prepare for Memorial Day Weekend |
Sign: "State Police" / patrolmen examine map / girls walking on sidewalk, Big Y area, riding bicycles / police dispatcher at console / patrolmen (and woman) discuss |
9-3-1965 | |
Costa Rican Girl in Central Point |
Woman, girl and man pick flowers / they pose for camera /girl plays ping pong with other children / they pet dog |
9-3-1965 | |
Railroad Cars, Medford |
Zoom out on railroad tracks, boxcars near Eleventh Street, Medford / zoom in at sawmill, sawdust loading into car / pan across stacked lumber, flatcars |
9-3-1965 | |
OSP Officers, Rev. Gunn of Ashland |
Scrap footage: Closeup of Rev. Gunn, wife and small children / Oregon State Police officers look at map, take notes / secretaries talk, type |
9-3-1965 | |
Prospective Firemen Test; Burned Fluhrer Building Lot |
Exterior: men milling about by fire engine / men climbing extended ladder on ladder truck / men climb over 6-foot wall / interior: men taking written test / foot racing down North Front Street / / empty lot, demolished burned Fluhrer Building, small wooden house, somehow related to the United Good Neighbor Fund, on grounds / Craterian Theater in background / |
9-29-1969 | |
Jacksonville Museum Reception; Fruit Shipment to Brazil |
Jacksonville Museum grounds: ladies chatting / men chatting separately / cake shaped like courthouse / buffet line / Earl Miller present / / color, sound: men standing in front of "Maltese Cross" fruit boxes on dockside discuss shipment of Hood River and Jackson County fruit to Brazil / "3,000 tons of pears going to Brazil" and speaker bites into hard, green pear |
9-29-1969 | |
Mary Hanley Retirement Observance; George Romney and Operation Breakthrough |
Mary Hanley and ladies eating, schmoozing on Jacksonville Museum grounds / interior meeting: / / faded color, sound: George Romney speaking / closeup of "Operation Breakthrough" (anti-poverty program) packages on dais / "Response to Operation Breakthrough has been overwhelming" / Romney speaks about housing proposals in U.S., Canada and overseas |
9-29-1969 | |
Search on Lower River |
Police, search crew on bank of river / men leave in drift boat, power boat / shots of rapids, lower Rogue River (presumably) |
9-29-1967 | |
United Way Executive; Medford Police, City Employees |
Man at desk on phone, looking through papers / closeup of United Way paperwork over his shoulder / more of same / / policemen schmoozing in office with Mayor Dunlevy / policemen taking photographs of people (city employees?) |
9-29-1967 | |
Lawyers Enter Holly Theater |
Pan across box office area of Holly, lawyers entering / attendees walking on sidewalk, North Holly, West Sixth |
9-29-1966 | |
Aftermath of Fire at 401 Oak Street, Medford |
Closeup pans across burnt debris / interior, exterior shots of burned house |
9-29-1966 | |
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 | |
Dorothy McElhose Honored |
In restaurant, woman wearing corsage shakes hands / presented with bouquet of roses by Medford Mayor Jimmy Dunlevy / they schmooze / presented with plaque / opens gift of silver teapot |
9-29-1966 | |
Sheriff Snider, Regal Gas Station, Grants Pass |
Secretaries at work in office / Dean Snider, Sheriff, on phone / Regal Gas Station sign / pan across station / Douglas gas sign--price: 32.9 cents a gallon / spray-painted gas pump |
9-29-1966 | |
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 | |
Hubert Humphrey Speaks in Eugene |
Lettering on building: "Mahlon Sweet Municipal Airport, Eugene Oregon" / police milling about / high school band assembles / pan across crowd on tarmac / students with signs: "Saturation Bombing Saturation Murder" "Is Genocide Part of the Great Society" "Eichmann: He Just Followed Orders" "People Against Genocide" / adults with signs: "Super Hubert" "Hello Hubert" "Yea Hubert" "Eugene Says Hello" / press and cameramen at stadium / packed stadium at UO applauds / Humphrey speaks / pans across press, crowd, signs / closeup of black student with antiwar pinback buttons on overalls |
9-28-1966 | View Now |
Lawyers Register for Awards Meeting |
Dignitaries shake hands, schmooze / women at tables register men / closeups of men registering, box of registration forms |
9-28-1966 | |
Applegate Irrigation Meeting |
Men fiddle with overhead projector, school gymnasium / meeting attendees examine map of Applegate drainage / closeup of map / speakers |
9-28-1966 | |
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 | |
California and Oregon Highways; Anti-Narcotics Publications |
Closeup of highway map showing Sacramento, Chico and Redding / arrow points to spot south of Chico / map showing San Francisco, S.F. Bay and Walnut Creek / Chico map again, camera pans north to Redding / map showing highways at Oregon-California border / / closeups of booklets: "Marijuana: Its Identification," "Prevention and Control of Narcotic Addiction," "Drugs and Driving," "The Drug Abuse Problem," "Federal Bureaul of Narcotics," pan down list illustrating "Restricted Drugs" |
9-27-1967 | |
John Holmer |
Old man at desk / Medford Mayor Dunlevy shakes his hand John Holmer was City of Medford Director of Building Safety. |
9-27-1966 | |
Voting on Scoville Road Zoning, Grants Pass |
Man walks up to house with flag and "Vote" sign / intersection sign: Scoville Road and Greenfield Road / men (Josephine County commissioners?) on dais in front of blackboard |
9-27-1966 | |
Phoenix Bank After Holdup, Suspect Led to Jail |
Police enter First National Bank, Phoenix from parking lot / bank sign with Grizzly Peak in background / interior of bank, police talk to teller / other bank sign, pan to drive-up window / police search bushes / interior of police station, secretary with weapons mounted on wall behind her / "Jackson County Sheriff" on car door / car drives up to camera, police escort handcuffed man into police station / Jackson County Courthouse jail window from ground level |
9-27-1966 | |
Eagle Point Modoc Zone Hearing |
Pan across asudience, school auditorium / commissioners at dais / speakers at lectern / speaker at map / speakers from audience |
9-27-1965 | |
New Josephine County 4-H Building |
Pan across exterior of building / pan across interior, opening festivities / banner: "Future Farmers of America" / 4-H, home economics displays, sewing, cooking, wool / kitchen / exterior again / "Activity Center" plaque on building |
9-27-1965 | |
United Crusade Luncheon |
Exterior: man spray paints left halves of metal hard hats / interior: man at luncheon puts on hard hat, grins / speaker at dais in front of United Crusade sign / pans across luncheon; tables marked "Commercial," "Distribution," "Public Employees," "Forest Products," "Service," "Retail" / kitchen volunteers (?) enter, are applauded |
9-27-1965 | |
Red Cross Vietnam Book Drive |
Pans across women with boxes of books / men load boxes onto truck as woman in uniform keeps count |
9-27-1965 | |
Meeting |
Closeups of VIPs somberly looking at camera / pan across meeting, speakers |
9-26-1969 | |
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 | |
Voting; Log Truck Accident; Jackson County Commissioners Meeting |
Sign outside building: "Vote Here" / interior: poll watchers, voters signing in, walking to widely separated school desks to vote / putting ballots in ballot boxes / / long shot of wrecked log truck on mountain road / closeup shots of truck on side, driver and policeman doing paperwork, debris on ground, logs scattered on shoulder / / meeting in old Medford City Hall / pan across attendees, including Earl Miller |
9-26-1967 | |
Installing Sign at Richfield Station |
Crane prepares to install sign at Richfield service station |
9-26-1966 | |
Progress on New Hellgate Bridge |
Sign: "Hellgate Bridge" / pan down crane / long shot of cranes on and below bridge / pans across scene / toddler enjoying action |
9-26-1966 | |
Rogue Valley Country Club Banquet |
People schmoozing, Rogue Valley Country Club, Medford / pans across banquet scene / speaker at lectern / banqueters stand to applaud / shots of speaker, actor William Gargan, and audience |
9-26-1966 | |
United Crusade Banquet |
Banquet scene: "1966-67 Campaign, Jim Beck, Chairman" progress tote board / pan across board, names visible: Martin Craine, Gene Kent, R. Schwalenberg, Marcel Thiebaud, Walter Draeger, Randy Warren |
9-26-1966 | |
SOSC College Registration |
Students lined up outside building / interior: college registration, students lined up, registrars with boxes of punch cards / students in booths registering for classes / student health insurance booth / veterans aid booth / pan across gymnasium / students fill out paperwork on metal folding chair seats |
9-25-1969 | |
Cafeteria Meet & Greet |
VIPs schmoozing in cafeteria / pan across cafeteria / main VIP commits more schmoozing |
9-25-1968 | |
Celebrities Greeted at Medford Airport |
Crowd at Medford Airport / passengers disembark from United Airlines turboprop liner / William Gargan, Ray Bolger, Bob Morgan, George Lindsey ("Goober Pyle"), Jack Kelly ("Bart Maverick"), Glenn Corbett, Clint Walker, Jim Davis, Buster Collier, other familiar but unidentified actors greeted by Mayor Dunlevy, fans. Refer to: "Celebrity Tourney Draws Crowd; About $10,000 Is Raised," Medford Mail Tribune, September 25, 1967, page 1. Golf tourney was to raise money for the William Gargan Cancer Fund. "Celebrities Due Here Tomorrow," Medford Mail Tribune, September 22, 1967, page 1 says, "Celebrities expected include Ray Bolger, George Lindsey, John Agar, Jack Kelly, Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen, Bob Steele, Ed Crowley, Buster Collier, Jack Ging, Bill Worthing, Bob Wilkey and Jim Davis." |
9-25-1967 | |
United Crusade Tote Board; Washing Airplane, Medford Airport |
Pan across United Crusade 1967-68 Campaign tote board: Martin Crane Chairman / goals, totals, closeups of totals for various mills, public employees / / young man hoses off private airplane N2131F, Medford Airport, washes tail / spectators |
9-25-1967 | |
Paving Biddle; School Library and Temporary Buildings; Air Force Academy Footage |
ONC freight semitruck passes / traffic crosses Biddle with fresh paving, traffic control cones / man with wheelbarrow shovels concrete around street light pole on corner / closeups of man, traffic / / interior of school library / closeup of VIP under canopy / man working on roof / man operates pipe threader / pan across new buildings / elementary school students at desks / / color, some good, some faded: Air Force Academy cadets run, march, dine, chat, / stills of space flight / Thunderbirds perform / eagle mascot |
9-24-1969 | |
Tract House Construction |
Bulldozer fills hole in lawn on new tract home / shot between houses, pan down row of houses |
9-24-1969 | |
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 | |
Southern Oregon College Registration |
Sign: "Southern Oregon College" / interior of auditorium, slow pans across registration scenes |
9-24-1965 | |
Congressman Robert B. Duncan on Boxcar Shortage |
Congressman Robert B. Duncan at desk, speaking on boxcar shortage |
9-24-1965 | |
Flag-Raising at Veterans Domiciliary; Boise Cascade Employees Donate Check |
Man speaking / interior: nurses and VIPs around table / shots of listeners, speaker / participants walk on path at Veterans Domiciliary / flag-raising ceremony, savings bonds flag with minuteman and stars / / pan across millpond, log deck, crane lifting trailer onto log truck / men unload oversized, barely legible check from pickup: "Pay to UGN (United Good Neighbor Fund) $19,054 from Employees of Boise Cascade" maybe / closeups of man with Boise Cascade logo on hard hat, VIP / crane lifts check |
9-23-1969 | |
Michael S. Killoran, Josephine County D.A. |
Two men in suits discuss papers on desk |
9-23-1966 | |
Medford Armory Recruiting Station |
Air Force recruiting posters, pan to Navy posters, Marines / interior: recruiters on phone at desks / closeup of Navy poster / Air Force seal / Army poster / shot down dark hallway, Medford Armory / armed forces insignia poster / table with books, brochures / "Fly Navy," "Travel Navy" signs |
9-22-1969 | |
Grants Pass Prisoner Arraigned; Picking Reter Pears; Car Fire |
Police examine unidentifiable stolen goods: boxes, bins, bags / policeman wanders outside Grants Pass jail / handcuffed prisoner walks from jall to courthouse / interior: prisoner walks up stairs / prisoner exits courhouse / / man picks leaves from bit of Reter pears / picking pears on ladder / pickers picking, removing leaves from bin, emptying pears into bin / more of same / / shot of driver driving down dirt road / police examine abandoned car / firemen douse same car, now smoking / douse smoldering car seat on ground / interior: policeman holding sergeant's patches |
9-22-1967 | |
5th Dimension Singing Group at Medford Airport; Awards Given at Jackson County Shops |
Young black and white men schmooze in front of Greyhound bus at Medford airport / more men and women arrive (Marilyn McCoo and 5th Dimension) from parking lot, much schmoozing going on / / interior, probably Jackson County shops: Earl Miller hands awards to men, clapping is accomplished / pans across crowd of men in work clothes with hard hats, seated in folding chairs |
9-22-1967 | |
Grants Pass City Council Meeting |
Pan across meeting, maps and aerial photo on wall / identified: Don Smith, Jack Rollins, Bill Gillespie, Robert C. Martin / man talks at blackboard |
9-22-1966 |