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Alaska Film Archives

About the Collection

Over the past half century, the University of Alaska Fairbanks has built the largest collection of archival films in and about Alaska. The collection combines hundreds of donations of film and videos to UAF by individuals, organizations and institutions. Materials range from professional productions to amateur home-movies, made in and about Alaska from the earliest days of filmmaking through today. Since 1993 these materials have been held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library. Films and videos selected for this portal project are a sampling of the thousands available for checkout on DVD through the Rasmuson Library. Unless otherwise noted, items are presented here in their entirety, unedited and uncut. Short, popular clips from the collection can be viewed on our YouTube channel. Read more about the Alaska Film Archives.

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[KTVF television footage and news stories from Fairbanks during 1976]
[KTVF television footage and news stories from Fairbanks during 1976]
Footage and stories include a ground-breaking ceremony (6/76), cars parking along Second Avenue (6/76), building construction, a parking garage on Barnette street (6/76), an Alaska Railroad train with a bicentennial engine arriving in Fairbanks and students from Bethel departing on a U.S. Army bus, Tom Reidenhower (?) of Independent Lumber explaining insulating houses in Alaska and using vapor barriers (6/30/76), a man looking at a Capital Site Selection book (6/28/76), telephone switching equipment at Municipal Utilities System with workers on the job (6/76), men looking at weather equipment and launching a weather balloon (5/24/76), a raft race on the Chena River, preparations at the Alaska State Fair, workers digging out sections of the pipeline to repair welds (7/76), people boarding and riding a new borough bus (8/76), building construction (8/76), a CPR and first aid class (3/22/76), a meeting in Schaible auditorium at UAF (8/76), Fairbanks Emergency Services Patrol assisting drunks and bars in downtown Fairbanks (8/76), construction of the Borough Building on Fifth Avenue (8/76), and Steese Expressway and Chena River bridge construction.