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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Medford School Scenes |
Pan across elementary school classroom, young children at desks / busy playground, children playing on equipment, with balls / sign: "McLoughlin Junior High" / pans across junior high classrooms with children at desks / exterior Medford HIgh School, students milling about / interior MHS lobby, students in line, filling hall, milling about, at office counter |
9-14-1965 | |
United Crusade Kickoff Dinner |
Pan across banquet scene / band with large trumpet section playing / speaker / more pans |
9-13-66 | |
Orlo McGee of Medford Police with Perfect Match Target |
Man holds up paper target / closeup of target / man with target again / man holds pistol |
9-13-66 | |
Rockhound Mine |
Two men schmooze at table under shade tree, pan to pile of rocks / man selects rocks from pile, vegetable garden and valley in background / more schmoozing, pans across rock face / mine opening in side of hill / |
9-13-1967 | |
Murder Suspects in Modesto Newspaper; Medford Armory Meeting |
Closeup of issue of Modesto Bee / lap dissolve to headline "Officer Nabs Murder Suspects in Modesto" / closeup of photo on newspaper / more of same / / VIP at desk, pan to two other men / still photo / / meeting in Medford Armory / audience in folding chairs / VIPs at dais/ bored audience wearing name tags Newspaper article relates to arrest of Mrs. Otis Harris in Modesto for murder of Max L. Wolfe September 6. |
9-13-1967 | |
Medford High School and Elementary School Scenes |
Exteriors: high school students walk past camera / bicycle rack, busy playground at elementary school / closeups of mugging children |
9-13-1966 | |
Car Wreck |
Night: troopers examine wreck / Clay's tow truck pulls car / pans across broken wooden guard rail / pans across car |
9-13-1966 | |
Quarterhorse Show, Grants Pass Fairgrounds |
Men, women on horses / pan across crowd in indoor arena / men and women put horses through paces in arena / more crowd, more paces |
9-13-1965 | |
Single-Car Accident Near Wolf Creek |
Night: policeman enters wrecked car / pan across scene and wrecked car / covering victim, loading onto gurney, strapping him to gurney, loading into ambulance / ambulance leaves / pans across wrecked car and scene |
9-12-66 | |
Reedsport Flood Control Work; John Dellenback Speaks |
Pan across bridge across river / sign: "Flood Protection Improvements Under Construction by Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, Portland District, Contractor S. D. Spencer & Son, Sponsor City of Reedsport" / highway sign: "Umpqua River, Oregon US101," pan to levee / concrete wall around oil tanks, Standard Oil Company of California / pan down concrete gate in levee / pan along men at work installing forms for curb work along highway / / dark banquet scene / closeup of congressman John Dellenback speaking / / meeting |
9-12-1969 | |
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 | |
Long Mountain Incorporation Election; Pacific Livestock Exposition VIPs |
Handmade sign: "Long Mountain Election" / man walks to camera from private home / sign by house: "Voters Enter Here" / poll watchers waiting, chatting in home's kitchen / ballot box / man votes, signs ledger / more voters / / men disembark from small private plane N208PP at Medford Airport / they shake hands with Mayor Dunlevy / present enormous ticket "This is a $3.00 Exchange Ticket Pacific Livestock Exposition" / woman wearing "Miss Northwest" (something) sash mounts horse next to airplane / VIP speaks, more handshaking / beauty queen on horse again |
9-12-1967 | |
Men at Work; Wilson School Crossing Guard |
Timber Products mill buildings / Hyster drives by / "Men Working" sign, pan to road work / road grader, roller, cement truck at work / man with shovel wanders aimlessly, grader drives by / men in ditch, pan to man with backhoe / building foundation work, man smooths concrete / carpenters at work / / School Crossing sign, pan to policeman stopping traffic for children / same, "Wilson School" sign in foreground / more of same |
9-12-1967 | |
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 |
Kidnap Victim and Kidnapper in Grants Pass |
Exteriors: Men pose with old man / handcuffed man led from building through parking lot to police department / police officer walks to car / old man enters car |
9-12-1966 | |
East Medford Residence Construction; Partial Eclipse |
Men at work building residence in East Medford, Barneburg Hill and Rogue Valley Manor visible in background / pan across neighborhood / shake roofing in progress / carpenters at work inside house / passel of children on bicycles riding down street past construction site / / sun at various stages during partial eclipse |
9-11-1969 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Shakespeare Festival Promo; North Medford High School Opens; Horsemanship Competition |
Closeup of Shakespeare Festival poster / list of plays: "Pericles," "Antony and Cleopatra," "Taming of the Shrew," "Richard the Third," "The Maid of the Mill" / posters of individual plays / slide: "The Oregon Shakespearean Festival" / / cars closely lined up on one side of street / entrance to Medford Senior High School / students milling about under awnings, school bus awaits / / young women riding horses in fairgrounds indoor arena / young man displays horsemanship |
9-11-1967 | |
Tilt-Up Slab Building Construction; Medford Heights Townhouses Construction |
Crane lifting wall segments into place of large tilt-up building, various views, closeups of crew, crane driver, pans across scene / / pan across construction site, wooded hill / sign: "Medford Heights Townhouses," buildings under construction |
9-10-1969 | |
Teens Waiting in Line; South Oregon Coast Scenes |
Teens standing in line at Miles Field / / sea stacks and surf, south Oregon coast / highway sign: "Welcome to Oregon; We Hope You Will Enjoy Your Visit" / commercial signs: A&W, Holiday Motel, Bev's Boat Bunk, Smoked Salmon, Chetco Travel Trailer and Camper Resort / grassy field with driftwood / beach / Dairy Queen / Philips 66 gas station / bowling alley sign / Chevron Standard service station / Bonn Motel / "For Sale" sign in window / closeup of busted neon sign / fast montage of directional arrows / Oregon State Park sign, pan to coast / highway sign: "Welcome, Enjoy Your Visit" / view from above of children playing on driftwood-strewn beach / woman walking with dog on beach / For more of same footage of teens in line and description of event, see SOHS Films Nos. 1622 and 1625 |
9-10-1969 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Medford Planning Commission Meeting |
Pan across audience, Medford council chambers / man speaking at dais / planning commissioners at desks / more speakers |
9-10-1965 | |
Police Officer Fichtner, Bicycle Safety |
Officer Fichtner pointing at stop sign for children at school (Washington School?) / he examines bicycle / children ride past camera / children use crosswalk / car door opens, children swerve to avoid it / children on bikes use hand signal before turning / children on bikes stop for pedestrians / closeup of Fichtner with "School's Open, Drive Carefully" signs |
9-10-1965 | |
Motorbike Accident, Grants Pass |
Pan from motorbike to driver being loaded onto gurney, Grants Pass, I-5 in background / driver loaded into ambulance / interior of moving car: ambulance driver, pan to view through dirty windshield |
9-1-66 | |
Orientation for New Teachers |
Man talks with teacher / teachers sitting in auditorium / pans across teachers / |
9-1-66 | |
Teens in Line |
Pans across teenagers standing in line outside Medford Armory For more footage of teens in line and rock concert, see SOHS Film No. 1625 |
9-1-1969 | |
Medford Dog Show |
Miles Field covered with people, motorhomes and pavilions / man trots with greyhound as judges watch / man trots with Dalmatian / woman tries to get beagle to do trick, beagle stands / pan across field |
9-1-1969 | |
Baseball Champions Depart; Shell Service Station; Fruit Sorting; Picnic |
People filing into Medford Airport terminal / view down car rental, airline desks in terminal / people waiting under eaves and at gate / young men posing with baseball trophy, bats, "State Champs '69" jacket / well-wishers at gate / Shell service station at I-5 and Highway 62 and new pavement / view down Biddle Road, construction work widening it / mechanics in service station garage working under hood of Mustang / mechanic under car / backhoe unloading pipe, Far East Colony Restaurant, 4th and Front, Medford, in background / conveyor belt sorting fruit into bins in packing house yard / fork lift moves bin / East Main Street, Medford, future Vogel Plaza in background / / huge family picnic in county park |
9-1-1969 | |
Timber Products Company Shutdown, Sale |
Pan down printed notice: "Notice to All Employees--All employees are hereby notified that the assets of the Timber Products Company are being sold. Effective at midnight, August 31, 1967, all operations of the Tibmer Products Company will be shut down. Advance notice of future employment will be given. Riddlesbarger, Pederson, Brownhill & Young" / storefront, painted on window: "International Woodworkers of America AFL-CIO Local 3-6" / sign on mill building "Timber Products Company, A Division of Cyprus Mines Corporation" / shots of inactive lumber mill: tepee burner, railroad loading area, parking area, offices |
9-1-1967 | |
Dellenback on Labor Day Safety; Veneer Truck Loses Load; Medford Fire Engine |
Decent color, sound on film: Representative John Dellenback, seated at desk, speaks on Labor Day, forest fire protection, highway safety as scenes of Northwest natural beauty, highway crashes unfold / silent, black and white: State Police car parked by side of bend in local road (Table Rock Road?), strewn plywood veneer scattered about / man carries veneer to forklift, other men stack veneer / / man shows off new Medford Fire Department, nozzle, suction hoses, input, output connectors, gauges |
9-1-1967 | |
Loot from Shoplifter at Grants Pass, Montgomery Wards |
Exterior: Montgomery Wards, Grants Pass / view through dirty windshield of moving car / interior: police with stolen clothing in motel room |
9-1-1966 | |
Fire at Southern Oregon Rubber Co., Grants Pass |
Sign: "Southern Oregon Rubber Co." / closeup of fire chief / fire truck: "Grants Pass 5 Fire Dept.," pan to firemen hosing debris on ground / closeup of young fireman / shoveling debris / policeman directing traffic/ pan across scene from across street |
9-1-1966 | |
Mark Goodman - Running Clock - UPI Teletype |
Closeup of young man (Mark Goodman?) with sunglasses, removes them / closeup of running electric clock / closeup of United Press International teletype machine in operation |
9-1-1965 | |
PP&L Banquet in Grants Pass |
Interior: banquet / men speak at lectern / audience applauds / more of the same |
8-9-66 | |
I-5 Accident; Bob Packwood on Budget; Eldon Johnson on Program Reduction |
Dusk: State Police Car, lights flashing, by side of I-5, Medford, Red Lion sign visible in background / car on its side / trooper and tow truck / / Ann Curry wearing enormous glasses in KTVL parking lot introduces canned clip by Bob Packwood about balanced budget / exterior: Curry interviews Packwood about proposed tax cut, budget, inflation / Curry in parking lot again / / State Representative Eldon Johnson speaks about reduction in programs and services Date from KTVL inventory, M1B Box 3 |
8-9-1980 | |
Downtown Jacksonville; Medford House Fire |
Man seated and talking at desk / woman walking on sidewalk, California Street, Jacksonville / interior of antique store / banner over street: "Britt Music Festival," Orth Building in background / pan across California Street, Frontier Finance Corporation, Jacksonville Tavern visible / / large Medford Fire Department fire truck parked at suburban residence / firemen enter house--broken window, smoke damage visible / smaller Medford F.D. pumper with hose snaking toward house |
8-9-1968 | |
Fire Crew in Woods; Britt Festival Rehearsal; East Medford Site Work; Lumbermen's Assn. Headquarters; Llamas |
Pan along fire hose in woods to resting fire crew to charred woods / pan along burned tree trunk / crew breaks up smoking stump / squirting hot spot with hose / / Britt Festival conductor conducts orchestra / view over violinist's shoulder / tight closeup of cellists bowing instruments / view of conductor from behind orchestra / timpani / tight closeup of drumsticks on snare drum / / earthmover in action, East Medford, Roxy Ann in background / VIPs discuss / pan across site work / / pan across suburban house / "Member, West Coast Lumbermen's Association" sign on house / pans across knotty pine-paneled interior of empty converted house / / llamas in pen |
8-9-1967 | |
Jackson County 4H-FFA Fair |
Pan across fair buildings / interiors: hogs / women and girls groom sheep / calves / exteriors: Hereford steers / interiors: rabbits in cages / girls hold rabbits |
8-9-1966 | |
4-H Horse Show, Jackson County Fairgrounds |
Jackson County Fairground: Three people ride horses past camera, Barneburg Hill in background / people demonstrate horses around outdoor arena |
8-9-1965 | |
Optometrists Seminar, Mark Antony Hotel, Ashland |
East Main Street, Ashland / Mark Antony Hotel / interior conference, optical demonstrations / pans across audience / |
8-9-1965 | |
County Fair; Downtown Central Point; Land Conservation |
Man speaks about county fair safety inspection / silent: ferris wheel, people / man speaks about fair attendance, third year of "open fair" / / cars lined up at drag race track / stock cars drag race / more of same, different angles / / silent: Pine Street, Central Point, various shots / new city hall building / / sound: Ann Curry interviews man about LCDC, preservation of agricultural lands Date from KTVL inventory, M1B Box 3 |
8-8/9-1980 | |
Wards Creek Forest Fire |
Smoking hillside seen from Highway 99 / men and bulldozer in field / interior of command van / firefighter drinks water by burning tree / firefighters hike up trail |
8-8-66 | |
Moose Lodge Parade, Medford |
Bass drum: "Moose Juniors, Medford, Oregon" / parade passes camera at Main and Ivy, Medford / woman riding stuffed moose on top of car / woman's drum corps |
8-8-66 | |
U.S. National Bank Grand Opening, Medford |
Pans across crowded interior of bank / displays of historic photos / exterior of front doors: "Medford Branch United States National Bank of Oregon" |
8-8-66 | |
Wards Creek Forest Fire |
Fireman cuts down trees in smoking forest / firemen lounge in parking area / sign on camper: "Fire-Weather Mobile Station, U.S. Dept. of Commerce Weather Bureau 1-66" / interior of camper |
8-8-66 | |
National Guard Convoy; Medford City Council Meeting |
National Guardsmen discussing over hood of jeep / National Guard trucks drive past camera / Guardsman climbs into vehicle / more trucks / NG vehicles enter freeway / / pans across meeting in Medford city council chambers, seats filled / speakers at microphone |
8-8-1969 | |
Borate Bomber Demonstration, Medford Airport |
Closeups of engines starting on borate bomber / pan across tarmac, Medford Airport / discussion under wing of bomber / people climb ladder into cockpit / engines start / private plane taxis away, flies past camera / bomber takes off, dumps load near camera / |
8-8-1969 | |
VIPs Schmooze; Medford Police, Fireman; John Lusk Honored by Junior Service League |
Closeups of VIPs schmoozing; one has WWP (Washington Water Power Co.?) patch on suit pocket / closeup of patch / / exterior, South Grape Street: Medford policemen discuss on sidewalk, "Police Dept." neon sign on building above them, Niedermeyer Building in background / fireman operates valves on fire engine / / John Lusk holds up "JSL Man of the Year 1966-7" tee-shitt to chest as Junior Service League woman reads / closeup of testimonial, pan to Lusk now wearing shirt |
8-8-1967 |