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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Preparation for Women's Equestrian Competition |
Young women saddle horses, Jackson County Fairgrounds / woman in equitation garb on horse / woman attaches spurs to boots, saddles horse / women pose on horseback, lined up for camera |
8-26-1969 | |
Farm Demolition; Downtown Coos Bay Street Work |
Men in suits looking at plans as bulldozer clears ground behind them / pan across scene, bulldozer piling demolished farm building between Medford and Jacksonville / / men examine plans on construction site, "The Hub" in background / pan across Coos Bay U.S. Bank building, Western Union, excavation work on closed street / young men installing conduit in manhole / backhoe digging trench in street, "Fish, Poultry" and "Motorola" signs visible / barber watches from barber shop doorway / view down street, Chandler Hotel, "Skyroom" sign in background |
8-26-1969 | |
Cancer Society Golf Tournament Promo; Civil Air Patrol |
Man with golf club and hat at entrance to store / spectators applaud / he hits ball from sidewalk into store, people laugh / people inside store, American Cancer Society banners in background / Celebrity Golf Tournament poster / / surplus military ambulance with "Emergency Services Vehicle" painted on side / sign: "Civil Air Patrol Headquarters, Grants Pass" / interior: officers confer over table / small airplane N56040 / instruments in cockpit / view through window as plane takes off / aerial views of Grants Pass area (low contrast) / officers and cadets in office / woman at table with "Briefing" sign / airplane does touch and go, small airport (Grants Pass?) |
8-26-1968 | |
Auto Accident, Big Y, Medford |
People attend to man lying on grass / 1958 Chevrolet in ditch, Medco headquarters in background / police direct traffic, Big Y Shopping Center in background / ambulance arrives |
8-26-1966 | |
Private Plane Wreck |
Night: policemen with flashlights examine wreck / day: pans across wreck in forested hills |
8-26-1966 | |
Grants Pass Lions Give Check to Blind Girl |
Exterior: Grants Pass High School; cheerleaders lined up, man presents check to cheerleaders and blind girl |
8-26-1966 | |
John Tomlin Lecture Guests, Rogue Valley Country Club |
Poster: "I'm Cured of Cancer!" / dignitaries shake hands, exterior Rogue Valley Country Club / interior: women at registration table / |
8-26-1966 | |
Looking For & Finding Private Plane Wreck |
Night: police and civilians mill about / man examines piece of wreckage / pan across wreck / KTVM news photographer / people examine wreck |
8-26-1966 | |
Aquacade '66 Water Show, Medford Hawthorne Pool |
Dusk: young girl baton twirlers perform, Medford Hawthorne Pool / night: syncrhronized swimming in the rain / musicians perform, pan across deserted pool in the rain |
8-26-1966 | |
SOTIA Meeting; Wigwam Burners; Oregon State Fair |
Speaker at lectern / pan across luncheon meeting / Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association building exterior / wigwam burner, Central Point, Grange / another wigwam burner (Klamath County?), pan up smoke cloud / more shots of smoking burner / / Oregon State Fair entrance / woman poses with bouquet / Uncle Sam on stilts / carnival / horse race / small child / bagpiper / bagpipe band marching / 4-H banner / banner: "Theme: God & Country" / pavilion / Ferris wheel / small girl on carousel / ducks by tiny pond |
8-25-1969 | |
Medford-Jackson County Airport; Meeting in Old Medford City Hall |
Sign at entrance to Medford-Jackson County Airport, radar dome in background / closeup of Pacific Airlines logo on sign / interior: Pacific and West Coast ticket desks / exterior of terminal, gate side of terminal / more interiors / terminal from parking lot side / / pans across meeting in old Medford city hall chamber--unusual angle, from spectator area / more of same |
8-25-1967 | |
Jackson County Summer Education Day Camp; Wounded Duck; Boy Scout Posters |
Children--many of them black, Hispanic or Indian--wearing Jorgensen's Dairy paper hats, displaying handmade poster with drawing of dairy plant, reading "Jorgensen's Dairy, We appreciate you showing us around the dairy plant. We liked seeing them make the ice cream. We liked seeing the lady wrap the butter. Thank you for the hats and ice cream that you gave us." / displaying other artwork / closeups of children / drinking water / running off / totem pole with sign: "Jackson County Summer Education Day Camp" / tepee / napping child / children file off / children splashing in river / / living mallard hen standing on office floor with arrow completely through head / / closeup of poster of saluting Boy Scout: "In grateful recognition of services rendered to Boy Scouting" / photograph of Scout leader / poster: "Council Camping & Activities Patch & Segments" showing patches / poster: "Scouting Can Make the Difference" |
8-25-1967 | |
Medford City Hall Construction |
Men talking on roof of Federal Building, Medford City Hall under construction in background / same men on top (second floor) of city hall, rebar being laid / crane lifts rebar to site / pans across site / more of same / |
8-25-1966 | |
Private Plane Wreck |
Night: pans across wreck site, single-engine plane, "N4545D" on wing / police arrive |
8-25-1966 | |
Corndog Fundraiser, Medford Shopping Center |
Exterior, Medford Shopping center: banner: "Winter Dome Benifit [sic] Jet Pups 10 cents, Ice Cream Soda 10 cents" / teens operating corndog stand set up on folding tables in courtyard / young customer sees camera, is startled
Raising money for year-round dome at Hawthorne Pool |
8-25-1966 | |
Medford High School Registration, School Board Meeting |
Students register, offices at Medford HIgh School / pan across Medford School Board in crowded room; Lynn Sjolund present |
8-25-1966 | |
Synchronized Swimming, Hawthorne Pool |
Four teen girls in leotards in Hawthorne Pool / closeups of girls / shots of synchronized swimming / they swim past camera |
8-24-66 | |
Building Fire; Josephine County Meeting |
Sign on building: "Office Hours," pan to smoking ruins of same building in woods, high cliffs in background / closeups of smoking, burning ruins / people sift through ashes / pans across ruins / / VIPs in small office hold discussion, "Donald G. McGregor, County Commissioner" on desk nameplate / exterior: VIPs talk, hands are shaken |
8-24-1967 | |
Grants Pass Water Pumping & Filtration Station |
Man points to riverside tree (indicating flood levels?) / pan across Rogue River / more pointing, pan down tree / points at streamside vegetation, river and water intake in background / interior: man shows, explains pumping equipment and gauges, "Morgan Abel, Operator" name plaque visible |
8-24-1966 | |
Paving at Medford Airport |
Man with push broom sweeping tarmac near Medford Airport gate, pan to paving machine / children watching / men shoveling hot asphalt near gate / roller, paving machine, men at work / group of teenage Girl Scouts at gate / |
8-23-1968 | |
Britt Festivals Performance; VIP Visits McCarthy Election Headquarters |
Closeups of young boys / pans across group in shade, Britt Festival grounds / pan across musicians on stage / musicians speak: bassoonist, flautist / young spectators raise hands, applaud / / VIP speaks / pan across listeners, McCarthy bumper stickers on wall in background / VIP drones on / people listening earnestly, "See Sen. McCarthy on Face the Nation" written on blackboard |
8-23-1968 | |
VIP Greeted at Medford Airport by Boy Scouts |
West Coast twin-prop airliner taxis up to camera / Boy Scouts wrestle roll of carpet to airplane, unroll it / VIP disembarks, shakes hands with other VIPs, is greeted / VIP schmoozes at length on couch |
8-23-1967 | |
Offices in New Medford City Hall; Senior Citizens Visit Jacksonville |
Pan across people working at desks in large office, coffee cups, ashtrays, rubber stamp rocks on desks / same people, same office from different angle / man waiting / meeting around table in small, spare meeting room / pan across row of dozens of file cabinets / / banner on front of bus: "Ambassadors of Goodwill, Medford-Yreka-Mt Shasta-Dunsmuir" / elderly women wearing name tags disembark from bus / school bus: "Dunsmuir Joint Union High School," more elderly people disembarking / McUne stagecoach approaches |
8-23-1967 | |
Downtown Views: Cottage Grove, Drain, Yoncalla, Sutherlin, Roseburg |
View through windshield of car driving on Interstate 5, passes exit sign: "Roseburg, Garden Valley Boulevard" / shots down main streets of towns to show smoky skies: billboard: "Cottage Grove, Boating - Water Skiing - Fishing, The Best Place to Vacation NATURALLY" / pan across Keith Roberts Ford, Cottage Grove Hotel / on building: "City of Drain, Drain Public Library" / on building: "City of Sutherlin Municipal Offices" / on building: "U.S. Post Office, Yoncalla, Oregon," sun is dim disk through smoke / on building: "City of Sutherlin, Municipal Offices, Public Library," pan down street / painted on car door: "City of Roseburg Fire Department" / pan across Roseburg Fire Department to hotel |
8-23-1966 | |
Cement Truck Wreck, I-5 |
View down I-5, east of Grants Pass: smoke in distance, cement truck against hillside / pans across cement truck, painted on door: "Redimix Concrete Co., Grants Pass: / Wheeless Wrecker Service tow truck / pumping water into cement truck mixer |
8-23-1966 | |
PP&L Brass Meet in Grants Pass, Anderson Speaks |
Pans across men at banquet / pan across dais / man speaks at microphone / pans across banquet / same speaker |
8-23-1965 | |
Jackson County Planning Commission Hearing |
Man with pointer at map / pan across audience / man speaks / more pans across audience |
8-23-1965 | |
Forest Fire Aerials at Paisley |
Views of smoking forest through window of high-wing single-engine airplane, whirlybird visible below briefly / |
8-22-66 | |
PP&L Banquet |
Closeup pan across dignitaries at dais, including Earl Miller / speakers at microphone / man holding plaque speaks / more speakers |
8-22-66 | |
Station Wagon Wreck |
Night: gurney loaded into ambulance / pan across station wagon with broken windshield / closeup of baby bottle on front seat |
8-22-66 | |
Gold Hill Gold Dust Days 1969 |
Adult bicyclists race down street / young bike riders mill about in middle of street, directed by VFW member, Texaco station in background / miniature Model T Ford on display near announcer on microphone / pan across booths / girl mugs for camera / Christian Church white elephant booth / Gold Hill Grange booth / shots of various booths / cotton candy booth / dunk tank First Baptist Church booth / pan across scene For more footage of bike race, see SOHS Film No. 1628 The race was a feature of the Gold Hill Community Benefit Carnival. See Medford Mail Tribune, August 31, 1969, page 10. |
8-22-1969 | View Now |
Helitanker Borate Bomber |
Pilot connects electrical cable of bucket to twin-rotor helicopter N2855J / shots, pans of helicopter / "Command Helicopters" painted on door / 'copter powers up, takes off as man connects suspension cables to bucket / 'copter flies into distance / lands near camera / pilot confers Color photos of N2855J Kaman H-43 Huskie in action here: https://www.ragay.nl/hidden/h43a-581839 |
8-22-1969 | |
Meeting |
Meeting in Medford city council chambers / pans across scene / speaker at microphone |
8-22-1969 | |
Sighting in Microwave Dish, Medford Depot |
Policeman at Fifth and Central, Medford, pan up to balloon in sky / microwave dish mounted on Medford railroad depot / man looking through spotting scope on window of van parked below microwave dish, pan to helper engine on siding / Medford depot seen from Fifth and Central, pan up to balloon (Medford City Hall in foreground) |
8-22-1968 | |
Southern Oregon College Football, Basketball Practice; Central Point Times Newspaper |
Men in shorts discuss while standing on Southern Oregon College track / coaches, college-age athletes, football practice / interior, gymnasium: SOC basketball practice / / "The Times" neon sign in window / closeup of "Central Point Times" masthead / front page, August 17, 1967 / closeups of pasteups, classified ads, April 27, 1967 issue, shots of news photographs in glossy and printed form |
8-22-1967 | |
Planning Meeting; Students Apply to College |
VIPs talk in small office / closeups of same / closeup of "Land Use Plan" on wall / pan across office / / teens in waiting room, filling out forms / sign: "Dean of Boys" above entrance to room / "Sophomore Boys" above other entrance / more paperwork |
8-22-1967 | |
Medford Airport Operations |
People at airport counter / interior of control tower / people waiting at gate / pan across propeller air liner / passengers disembark / pan across terminal / turboprop plane pulls up to gate |
8-22-1966 | |
United Airlines Jet Pilot School; Meeting |
Sound, color, faded to red: exterior shots of building / pilots in classroom / cockpit training mockups in large room / small jet takes off / cockpit shots / "school for jet executives" / / silent, black and white: people sitting in stands, Medford city council chambers / shots of meeting participants |
8-21-1969 | |
Medford Airport B Roll; National Guard Convoy |
Air West jetliner lands, Medford Airport, paving machine in foreground, taxis / rapid cuts: people waiting at gate / liner taxis to gate / nose of Bonanza Silver Dart / small Air West Piper Navajo N11130 / Bonanza Funjet jetliner / Bonanza liner as seen through door of terminal / woman takes photo of people waiting at gate / closeup of tail / / National Guard military vehicles lined up at armory / sign: "Military Convoy Ahead, Proceed with Caution" / small group of men talk by vehicles / vehicles with armory in background |
8-21-1968 | |
Timber Auction; Elementary School Classroom |
Woman walks up to gridded blackboard: "Rogue River National Forest" / pan across sparse attendees / woman retrieves bid from man at table, entersinformation on blackboard / / elementary school teacher in classroom at blackboard, pan to students at desks mimicking her gestures |
8-21-1967 | |
California Private Aviation Group; Hot Weather Footage |
Two airplanes maneuvering high above camera / more airplanes high above / planes landing on small airport--Northern California? / private planes (N7940T) parked on runway, people emerge / people schmooze, hands are shaken, Lyn Newbry present / / fountain at Medford Shopping Center in operation, dissolve to children splashing in Hawthorne Park pool / kids jump off high dive in slow motion |
8-21-1967 | |
Harry & David Pear Packing Plant; Meeting |
Women sorting pears on conveyor belt / scenes in packing plant, women packing pears into boxes / filled boxes on conveyor belt / man weighing boxes / woman labeling boxes with Bear Creek labels / woman tying knot in plastic bag within boxes / view of packing floor from above / / meeting in Medford city council chambers / pan across participants / man with pointer and large map of Oregon / closeup of speaker |
8-20-1969 | View Now |
VIPs Tour SOC Campus |
VIPs wearing name tags exit building, SOC campus / pan across large group of adults on campus / group gets coffee, snacks, chats, loiters / |
8-20-1968 | |
Oregon State Employment Service Trailer |
Small travel trailer parked by road (near Miles Field?) / "Oregon State Employment Service, Division of Department of Employment" painted on trailer / man sitting forlornly at window of trailer / interior: man in short sleeves and tie inside trailer / sitting at desk in trailer, chatting with cameraman / man outside trailer, Roxy Ann in background / closeup of man |
8-2-1968 | |
Semi-Truck Accident; Medford Senior High School Construction; Rogue Valley Skyways at Medford Airport; Stockbrokers |
Night: Man walks on load of peeler cores in semi-truck tipped on side / pan across scene, Dick's Wrecker truck / more of same / / "Medford Senior High School" on walkway of building, pan across complex / pans of courtyards--no grass yet / / small plane taxis at Medford Airport / workers pose in front of Rogue Valley Skyways hangar / they disperse to airplanes / / interior: men in shirtsleeves and ties examine board labeled "Dow Jones Averages" / closeup pans of board Per Carol Harbison-Samuelson, 4/28/2018: One of stockbrokers is John Crawford. |
8-2-1967 | |
John Dellenback Campaigns in Plywood Mill |
Closeup of John R. Dellenback speaking / shakes hands with workers in plywood mill / workers assembling plywood veneer/ |
8-2-1966 | |
I-5, Crater Lake Highway Interchange |
Views through windshield of car driving north on Hwy. 62 over freeway: pavement, construction, other cars, signs / ditto south |
8-2-1966 | |
Medford Sewage Treatment Plant |
Men on porch of wooden building / men watch sewage pass through concrete channels / settling pond / channel leading into Rogue River / shot of foam on river |
8-2-1966 | |
Five Norwegian Scouts Visit Grants Pass |
View from park: station wagons with logos on doors approach / people milling about in park / Norwegians in Boy Scout uniform, shaking hands and talking with locals / cooking hamburgers / people at banquet table / Cave Men arrive, meet Norwegians |
8-2-1965 | |
Pomona Grange Picnic |
Pan across picnickers at Rogue River park (Riverside Park? TouVelle Park?) / fiddlers, dulcimer players, flute players / men in pig costumes dance pan across Grange members |
8-2-1965 |