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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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Outer Continental Shelf : Archie Brower
Outer Continental Shelf : Archie Brower
This footage features an interview with Archie Brower of Barrow, who was president of the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation, on the impact of oil spills on sea mammals and sea birds.
Outer Continental Shelf : Eben Hopson, tape 1
Outer Continental Shelf : Eben Hopson, tape 1
This footage features an interview with Eben Hopson of Barrow, mayor of the North Slope Borough.
[Alaska On Line: Red Boucher interviews Edna MacLean]
[Alaska On Line: Red Boucher interviews Edna MacLean]
In this episode of Alaska On Line, Red Boucher interviews Edna MacLean, president of Ilisagvik College, about higher education in the arctic. The program was recorded on December 28, 1996.
[Annabeth Hanlon collection 4]
[Annabeth Hanlon collection 4]
This footage shows a Wien Stinson airplane landing on ice in Anaktuvuk[?], Eskimo men ice fishing, and a Wien airplane departing. Footage featuring Eskimo life in Barrow includes school children in a Barrow classroom, elders weaving baleen baskets, a dog sled, an early tracked vehicle made from a truck, a Wien airplane arriving, hunters pulling umiaks across the ice using sled dogs, a whaling festival, a woman demonstrating how she carries a baby on her back under a parka, a dog sled hauling freight, a sod house on the tundra, people trading fur and baleen baskets for goods in a store, village scenes, a woman making dolls, women setting nets along the shore and pulling in a catch of small fish, young boys with puppies, and hunters in umiaks taking seal and walrus. Notes on the original film and can say "Barrow 1 and 2."