Alaska Film Archives

[Senator Gruening talks with Dr. George Rogers]
[Senator Gruening talks with Dr. George Rogers]
Senator Gruening interviews Juneau economist George Rogers about the need to revise the funding formula in federal legislation funding education.
[Senator Gruening talks with General Emerson Itschner]
[Senator Gruening talks with General Emerson Itschner]
Senator Gruening interviews U.S. Army Corps of Engineers General Emerson Itschner, commander of the corps in Alaska, about building the Rampart Dam in Alaska.
[Senator Gruening talks with Joe Briones]
[Senator Gruening talks with Joe Briones]
Senator Gruening interviews Juneau resident Joe Briones about passage of the updated G.I. Bill legislation. Briones was in Washington representing the American Legion in Alaska.
[Senator Gruening talks with Ken Hinchey]
[Senator Gruening talks with Ken Hinchey]
Senator Gruening interviews Ken Hinchey, former mayor of Anchorage, about the proposed Knik and Turnagain causeways.
[Snowmachines, trapping]
[Snowmachines, trapping]
All film segments are labeled "Trapping - December 1961 to January 1962," and they contain images of filmmaker Victor Rovier driving to the Alaska Marine store, a Polaris Sno-Traveler sign, men looking at and test-driving various models of snowmachines, moose in the snow, a wounded moose on the road, a bridge, a small group of cabins, people driving snowmachines, people driving on snowmachines and walking with snowshoes while checking and setting traps, a fox in a trap, a wolverine in a trap, a fox in a trap, dogs running alongside snow machines, an elderly man posing on a snowmachine and going for a ride on a snowmachine.