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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Mountaineer School on Mount Ashland |
Sign: "Mount Ashland Ski Patrol" / pan across snowless mountain / man demonstrates knot tying / long shot of people practicing rappelling / men climbing steep slope Instructor is Bill Pruitt. See photo, Medford Mail Tribune, August 1, 1965, page 1. |
8-2-1965 | |
West Coast Airlines Show DC-9 Model to Medford Mayor Dunlevy |
Mayor Dunlevy in his office discusses DC-9 model with executives / pan across execs / Dunlevy admires model with grinning stewardesses, execs |
8-1965 | |
Immunization Clinic, Medford Public Health Center |
Exterior: "Jackson County Public Health Center," people lined up / people lined up inside / closeup: people getting vaccinated with pneumatic vaccine gun / more of exterior line |
8-1965 | |
Jacksonville Celebration for JFK Rep. Sonj Farkell |
Dim nighttime exterior, California Street, Jacksonville: stagecoach arrives, man in Indian headdress arrives / interior, from stairs of U.S. Hotel: people enter building / man in Indian headdress waiting with guitar / young women shake hands / young men introduced to crowd / Refer to Oregon Statesman, Salem, July 20,1965, page 3. "An English instructor from Sweden is Jackson County's visitor under the John F. Kennedy Living Memorial exchange program. She is 29-year-old Sonja Farkell, who also teaches swimming. She will be in the area for several weeks." |
8-1965 | |
Overturned Logging Rig |
Night: pans across loaded log truck on its side |
8-19-66 | |
State Compensation Check Received |
Interior: closeup of man speaking / two men in suits hand him check; they shake hands / closeup of check / two men on sidewalk with fistful of checks |
8-19-66 | |
Medford Eastwood IOOF Cemetery; Britt Children's Concert |
Luncheon meeting: pan across participants / ranch house on Siskiyou Boulevard, Medford, IOOF cemetery hill in background (mausoleum lost in glare) / shots of cemetery--watered, mowed section, weedy section, sprinkler watering plot / closeup of Iradell Phipps monument / shots, pans across cemetery / shots of meeting participants / / adults and small children sitting on wooden benches, Britt Festival grounds / they get up, mill around grounds, children get on stage, examine instruments, talk to musicians |
8-19-1969 | |
Jackson Pool Swim Meet; Beekman Bank |
Small girls on swimming starting platforms, Jackson Pool / man with starting gun / girls finish race / closeup of coach / different race finishes / wet girl talks to parents through chain link fence / man with bullhorn / girls swim past camera / / Robbie Collins points at Jacksonville Historic District plaque by Beekman Bank, talks to camera (silent) / Collins chats on grounds of Jacksonville Museum / people exit U.S. Hotel / people in Beekman Bank interior / Pioneer Village stagecoach on corner / VIPs wander aimlessly on sidewalk / bank interior / Robertson Collins |
8-19-1968 | |
Medford City Council Meeting |
Man stands in audience and speaks / pan across councilors at desks / pan across audience / more of the same / man passes out papers to councilors |
8-19-1966 | |
Josephine County Fair, Carnival |
Sign: "Josephine County Fairgrounds," pan to ferris wheel and carnival in operation / pan down Polaris missile / carnival rides in operation / interior displays: Amana, Arden Dairy, Rogue Farm Supply, Pacific Power, Frigidaire, Singer Sewing Machines, Cascade Block Plant, Keith's Ornamental Iron, "Electrographic Personality Analysis" computer, cookware / KAGI Radio booth / harvest displays: pumpkins, rabbitgs, sheep, cows / people walk along midway / sign: "Industrial Exhibits" / fountain / flower displays |
8-19-1965 | View Now |
Kids Koncert at Britt Festivals |
Children run across Britt grounds / children at snack bar / closeups of children in audience / orchestra / pan across audience and grounds |
8-19-1866 | |
United Way Crusade VIPs |
Closeups of VIPs in suits schmoozing, probably Rogue Valley Country Club / |
8-18-66 | |
Southern Oregon Police Officers Association VIPs |
Exterior: men shake hands, talk in parking lot |
8-18-66 | |
Medford City Hall VIP; Medford Airport Air Show; Tricycle Races |
VIP in office speaks to camera, walks off / he chats up secretary / sits behind desk, Medford City Hall / / three private planes take off at once, Medford Airport, pan across field littered with private planes / biplanes take off / men push biplane into position / biplanes do slow flyby over runway / announcer on viewing stand / trophies awarded / / Baza'r department store parking lot, Medford, crowded with spectators / children race on tricycles toward camera |
8-18-1969 | |
VIP Arrives, Medford Airport; Drug Bust Evidence |
Medford Airport: West Coast jetliner approaches camera / VIPs disembark, walk toward camera, are greeted, kissed, pose, schmooze / / Jackson County Sheriff's deputies remove small bottles of drugs, pipe, cigarette box from wooden cigar box, display on table / pan across same / closeup of hashish (?), enamelware saucepan; one name on label is Gerald E. Randles / plastic bags of marijuana, other unidentifiable herb |
8-18-1967 | |
Medford City Council Meeting; Medford Police Routine |
Pans across Medford City Council meeting, Mayor Dunlevy presiding / / Medford policeman in squad car parked at Fifth and Central, City Hall in background / he enters city hall / talks to secretary / view over shoulder as she types report, pan to radio equipment / bulletin board: "Wanted" psoters, police bulletins / they talk / "Medford Police" on car door |
8-18-1967 | |
Medford Water Commission--Uses of Water |
Seal on door: "City of Medford Water Commission" / sign: "Pay Water Bills Here" / sprinklers in Hawthorne Park / children play in sprinkler at Hawthorne Park / Hawthorne Pool / slow motion of kid jumping from diving board / wading pool at park / fountain at Medford Shopping Center / interiors: woman fills cup from sink / mopping floor / filling radiator / washing hands / |
8-18-1966 | |
Job Corps Youth Training Begins at Fort Vannoy |
Sign: "Welcome Job Corps Youth," pan to Redwood Highway / pan across new Job Corps buildings, people emerging from cars / interior, young men, two African-American, in T-shirts listening to lecture / young men eating / women sewing patches onto clothing / men trying on uniforms / small group discussion / pan across exterior of site |
8-18-1965 | |
Opening of Josephine County Fair |
Sign: "Josephine County Fair Grounds" / sailors march past / man attempts to ignite homemade cannon / flag slowly raised / Cave men and women assemble / closeup of man |
8-18-1965 | |
Tour of Truck Farm Near Jacksonville |
Group of men and boys standing in field / sign: "Wade Barley" / men and boys examine grain / shot from back of moving tractor |
8-17-66 | |
Lawyers, Defendant in Federal Case; Vaccination Preparations |
Three men walk down Sixth Street sidewalk toward camera, one with two canes / they climb steps to Medford federal building, enter / interior: men enter elevator / exit elevator, enter courtroom / closed courtroom doors / / doctor and nurse in exam room / box: "Measles Virus Vaccine, Live, Attenuated," pan across vials on table / pan across boxes and vials of polio, diphtheria, tetanus, other vaccines / nurse draws syringe |
8-17-1967 | |
Medford Red Cross Offices, Programs |
Red Cross logo on window / woman in Red Cross uniform typing / closeup of typewriter as she types on Red Cross letterhead, pan to sign: "This Is Our Primary Responsibility: Service to Military Families and Veterans, Help with Personal Problems, Communications, Emergency Leaves, Government Benefits, Financial Help" / handwritten "Blood" sign over door / same woman chats, confers with another Red Cross nurse / closeup of American Red Cross shoulder patches / sign: "Shop Early '67, Goal: A Christmas Gift for Every Soldier in Vietnam" / sign: "American Red Cross Youth Aquatic School" / poster for Home Nursing Course / same shot of Red Cross logo on window |
8-17-1967 | |
Mrs. W. Doherty, Mother of Vietnam Pilot |
Exterior shot of woman on steps of house / closeup of her writing letter / closeup of letter |
8-17-1966 | |
Josephine County Fair Carnival |
Men parking cars / sign: "Welcome to Josephine County Fair" / ambulance / pan across carnival / children on carnival rides / shot taken on moving carousel / people on midway / toddler / long shot of carnival / shot from moving car / deer runs through woods |
8-17-1966 | |
Medford Schools Meeting, Jackson School |
Medford 549C school district administration building / interior: men at desk / exterior of Jackson School / grinning children / pan across facade of Jackson School / school buses / LDS Church / Spiegelberg Stadium undergoing repair with crane |
8-17-1966 | |
Agate Dam Construction |
Pan across construction site, conveyor loading earthmovers with dirt / graders, dump trucks, earth movers, caterpillar with sheepsfoot roller in action / pans across construction site / pan across concrete culvert in ditch / more pans across site |
8-17-1965 | |
Opening New Natural Gas Main to Eagle Point |
Shots, pans, fades of still photo of men opening gas valve. Sign in background "Another Natural Gas Line Under Construction / California-Pacific Utilities Co." |
8-16-66 | |
Red Cross Blood Center & Donors |
Exterior of Red Cross center on Hawthorne Street, Medford / interiors of nurses, donors and volunteers at work |
8-16-66 | |
Senator Wayne Morse at Democratic Headquarters; Claire Hanley Arboretum |
VIPs (including Wayne Morse and Jimmy Dunlevy) chatting / "McCarthy for President" sign in background / little girl with "Morse" hat / Morse chats with children / / sign: "Southern Oregon Experiment Station" / people loitering outside barn / they amble off / man talks to them, headquarters building in background / Mary Hanley in group / different speaker / sign: "Claire Hanley Arboretum" / small group examines tree |
8-16-1968 | |
Medford Airlines Signage, Routes |
Sign: "Pacific Air Lines," "West Coast Airlines," closeup of eagle airline logo, Bonanza Air Lines route map, more airline logos, West Coast Airlines ticket desk at Medford Airport, Pacific Air Lines ticket desk, arrivals/departures sign / sign: "Now! West Coast Airlines Offers Daily Nonstop DC-9 Fan Jet Service to San Francisco--Only 52 Minutes"/ man at desk / Bonanza route map again |
8-16-1967 | |
Timber Auction; Josephine County Fair |
Pans across audience, Jackson County Courthouse Auditorium / man at gridded blackboard / women with adding machines / / sign: "Josephine County Fair Grounds," pan to ferris wheel / carnival scene / sign "Josephine County Fair Aug. 16-19, 1967" / interior: huge, impressive computer with signs: "Personality Analysis Anavac," "Are You a Character?" / signs on building entrances: "Flower Exhibits," "Agriculture Exhibits," "Industrial Exhibits," "Junior Livestock Open Class Sheep-Swine-Goats" / woman poses with Mercedes sports car by Auto Martin trash can / fairgrounds entrance |
8-16-1967 | |
Bear Creek Sanitation Tour |
Pan across people waiting outside bus / interior of bus / people disembark / man with megaphone / pans across filter, lagoon, Bear Creek / ditch |
8-16-1966 | |
Josephine County Fair Scenes |
Children washing calf / man grinning in business office doorway / interior of barn / children with sheep, hogs / boys eating / interior: display of vegetables |
8-16-1966 | |
Jacksonville Pioneer Days |
Pan across crowd waiting on Calfiironia Street for parade / parade passes: stagecoach, Southern Oregon Sled Dog Club, children on horseback, Smokey Bear on Caterpillar tractor, farm wagon, sulky drivers, antique cars / booths, signs: "Upper Applegate Grange," pan across booths, "Shady Cove Grange," cotton candy booth / signs of California Street businesses: "Ice Cream Palace," interior thereof / museum interior (Brunner building?) with buggy and art show / sign: "Cracker Barrel Studio," interior with artwork on walls / signs: "Jacksonville Historic Restoration Office," "The Oregon Trader" / child with cotton candy / peanut cart / signs: "McCully House Antique Doll Museum," "Peter Britt Music Festival" / outdoor art show on courthouse grounds Pioneer Village’s stage coach led the parade, with C. C. Hoover riding shotgun. The little tin lizzie was driven by Jeff Jones of Jacksonville, sponsored by Jacksonville Drug. Pioneer Village’s wagon. Southern Oregon Pony Club, the Old-Timers Club and Southern Oregon Sled Dog Club pictured. The art exhibit was held in the Jacksonville Library in the Brunner Building. See articles, Medford Mail Tribune August 10, 1965, page 7; August 13, pages 1 and D8; August 16, pages 1 and 11. |
8-16-1965 | View Now |
Pear Picking, Pinnacle Orchards |
Pear pickers in orchard / picker dumps pears into bin / picker high up in tree / pan across tree laden with fruit / woman picker on ground / picker on ladder / Pinnacle Orchards boxes / closeup of woman |
8-16-1965 | |
Oregon Pilots Association Relay, Medford Airport |
Exterior, Medford Airport: woman receives gift / man and little girl hold banner: "Welcome Medford O.P.A" / private plane arrives, delivers gallon jug of liquid / woman boards plane |
8-16-1965 | |
Britt Festivals Orchestra Performance |
Night performance: orchestra on stage / conductor come onstage, bows, orchestra play / orchestra from distance, framed by pine needles / closeup of conductor |
8-15-66 | |
Itchy Children; Jet Fighter |
Pan across weedy field / suburban ranch house with small children in yard / woman points to, discusses field / small child / closeups of itchy children's legs / woman holding children, pan to field / men in meeting / speaker / / good color: Air Force officer explains jet fighter to VIP / VIP in cockpit / closeup of VIP / |
8-15-1969 | |
Jehovah's Witnesses Confab, Miles Field |
Crowd walking through parking lot to Miles Field / pan across crowd in bleachers and folding chairs on field / palm trees, pond built on field, large letters stuck into grass: "Good News for All Nations District" / TV cameramen at the ready / multiple crowd shots, pans / pan of scene from back of bleachers / pan across temporary bleachers / inside Armory: people in wheelchairs (to watch TV remote?), reporters at tables with typewriters According to the Medford Mail Tribune, August 15, page 1, the National Guard Armory had been converted to a dining hall to feed the thousands of delegates attending the four-day-long Jehovah's Witnesses district assembly. Closed-circuit TV was installed. |
8-15-1968 | |
Tower Sections on Train Cars |
Ore cars on track in Rogue River (?), Texaco and Gulf stations in background / closeups of triangular antenna tower sections in cars, OK Tires in background / closeup of cable spools in car / more of same |
8-15-1968 | |
Tour of Southern Oregon Experiment Station; Britt Festivals Children's Performance; Rotary Argentine Visitor |
Men, including Porter Lombard, tour orchard at Southern Oregon Experiment Station / man speaks / pans along irrigation hose and seedling trees / tractor, disk harrow / Lombard talks about sprayer / / schoolchildren seated on grass in shade of tree, raise hands / clarinetist on Britt stage speaks about his instrument as four other musicians wait to perform / pans across audience seated only in shady areas / / exterior: young Argentinian man gives Rotary Club peace pennant to VIP, shakes hands, closeup as he schmoozes with VIPs / closeup of pennant with dove, "Rotary Club, Tres Arroyos, Republica Argentina" |
8-15-1967 | |
Administrator and Nurses, Josephine General Hospital |
Exterior: "Josephine General Hospital" / interior: man in suit / he meets, shakes hands with, schmoozes nurses |
8-15-1966 | |
Josephine County Fair Exhibits, Carnival Assembly |
Interior: pan across exhibits: "Merlin Grange No. 933" / exteriors: men offload generator / men assemble carnival ride / pan across carnival / man assembles ferris wheel / man poses in doorway of business office |
8-15-1966 | |
Dedication of Parco d'Alba, Medford |
Pan across Boy Scouts to Legionnaires, Earl Miller on platform, Parco d'Alba (Veterans Park), Medford / speakers / pan across audience / Scouts unveil granite marker |
8-15-1966 | |
Congressman Bob Duncan Picnic |
Sign: "Jackson Hot Springs:" / twin-rotor helicopter approaches, lands / man emerges, hugs child / long closeup of sleeping child with "RBD" (Congressman Robert B. Duncan) ribbon on chest |
8-15-1966 | |
Auto Accident off I-5 near Grants Pass |
Pans across mangled car in ditch / ambulance backs up to car |
8-15-1966 | |
Britt Festivals Orchestra Performance |
Shots of evening orchestra performance--long shots, closeups, pans |
8-15-1966 | |
Auto Accident off I-5, near Grants Pass |
Policemen examine mangled car in ditch / pans across scene / views inside car / grinning kids examine wreck / closeups of debris, cameraman's shadow / long shot of scene, pan up to trees / man talks to cameraman |
8-15-1966 | |
OSU Crop Lab; Fairgrounds Buildings; Livestock Auction |
Good color: Men leave Hyslop Crop Science Laboratory building, Oregon State University, Corvallis, walk to cars / closeup of sign on building / men point at electrical box on pole by field / they examine recording device in field, examine crops / / black and white: pan along Jackson County Fairground buildings / huge pile of grain or sand inside building / / / sheep let out of pen, pan to auctioneer / more sheep, men examine their teeth / auctioneer / / |
8-14-1969 | |
Tour of Duff Water Treatment Plant |
Man in hat giving tour of Duff Water Treatment Plant under construction: interiors: men examine monitoring equipment / closeup of recording sensor / schmoozing, joking / exteriors: large steel pipe in ditch / worker in distance cuts pipe with chainsaw with abrasive wheel / closeup of same / arty view through pipe / man working in concrete tank / view from roof of concrete work on filtration tanks |
8-14-1967 |