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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 commercial out-takes]
[KTVF commercial out-takes]
Some segments of film contain audio, and others are silent. Specific dates and other information noted on the original film are given here in parentheses. Footage includes several segments of commercials for Tesco Lighting Center (one film segment was labeled "Alaska Press Club Category 37: Tesco Lighting Center: Entrant Gary B. Miller, Chief Photographer KTVF"), a sign for the Bentley Mall, several scenes used in commercials for The Book Bin, commercial out-takes for a pocket pager system (one is labeled "Randy - car"), a segment labeled "Austin Ward, Graphics" containing drawings of the pipeline terminal in Valdez, scenes used in commercials for Mt. McKinley Mutual Savings Bank, Ford dealer Ralph Seekins introducing a new car dealership in Fairbanks and explaining that it is not cheaper to buy a new automobile in Seattle or San Francisco, scenes used in commercials for Jackovich Tractor Equipment Company, Fairbanks Security Service, and Compeau's, scenes of people demonstrating snow blowers, security alarms, snowmachines, and a Bushman tracked vehicle, out-takes from a Mt. McKinley Mutual Savings Bank commercial, a man being interviewed about fire protection and insurance (identified in notes accompanying film as "Insurance Specialist Charlie Parr"), mechanics working on cars (scenes for "Pioneer Chevron" commercial), Ford dealer Ralph Seekins talking about the Ford Pinto Pony for the Jim Thompson Ford dealership, scenes used in commercials for Kobuk Tesoro stations, First Federal Savings and Loan, a radio station, and Sig Wold Storage and Transfer, Inc.
[KTVF miscellaneous short clips; A, B, and C-rolls for commercials]
[KTVF miscellaneous short clips; A, B, and C-rolls for commercials]
Some segments of film contain audio, and others are silent. Specific dates and other information noted on the original film are given here in parentheses. Footage includes men in a canoe, Juneau harbor and town scenes, men painting a boat, gulls, people walking along a path to the Mendenhall Glacier, a man reading a newspaper, buildings and mountains (silent) (undated), aerial views of a city, a man being interviewed (silent) (undated), a man talking about taxpayer frustration in Alaska and about his campaign for state legislature (sound) (segment titled "Jim O'Sullivan - Quiet Revolution") (undated), portions of a Jim O' Sullivan commercial (silent) (segment titled "Quiet Revolution") (undated), views of a gas station and cars (silent) (segments titled "Russell's Union") (undated), views of people door-to-door campaigning (silent) (undated), miscellaneous footage of Alaska cities and industries (silent) (segment titled "Oil and Alaska's Future") (undated), a political commercial for U.S. Senate candidate Terry Miller, views of Alaska cities, fish processing, Ketchikan, etc. (silent) (undated), miscellaneous footage for an Andy Warwick political commercial, Warwick talking to a man about Alaska fisheries and oil lease sales (silent and sound) (undated), views of pipeline and oil facilities for a Terry Miller political commercial (silent) (segment titled "Oil and Alaska's Future") (undated), scenes for a United Way commercial (silent) (segment titled "United Way") (October 3, 1974), views of grocery stores and the pipeline for a Terry Miller political commercial (silent) (segments titled "Producer L. Hebert - Inflation") (undated), a basketball game in the Patty Gym at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (silent) (segment titled "Nanooks") (undated), a snowy day, a girl serving cookies to a child (silent) (undated), a person in a prospector costume (silent) (undated), San Francisco scenes, a Ford manufacturing plant, a Seekins Ford dealership, and Seattle views (silent) (undated).
[KTVF news stories, protests, power plants, construction]
[KTVF news stories, protests, power plants, construction]
Some segments of film contain a soundtrack, and others are silent. Specific dates and other information noted on the original film are given here in parentheses. The film includes various Fairbanks gas stations, a Datsun dealership (February 1976) (silent), footage of air pollution provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (February 1976) (silent), the Department of Fish and Game building in Fairbanks, a woman in a lab (title of segment is "Wolf Autopsy") (February 25, 1976) (silent), a woman writing down the license plate numbers of cars left running in a parking lot, downtown Fairbanks scenes (February 1976) (silent), the Fairbanks power plant, coal cars, aerial views of the power plant (February 1976) (silent), cabins, homes and mobile homes in the Fairbanks area (February 1976) (silent), a man being interviewed about wolf control measures (March 19, 1976) (sound), Fairbanks traffic and vehicles (title of segment is "Auto Inspections Rapped") (March 4, 1976) (silent), people at Fairbanks City Hall listening to Senator Mike Gravel speak about the Devil's Canyon and Susitna Dam projects, a reporter talking (March 1976) (sound), members of Teamsters Local 959 on strike at Bayless and Roberts, Inc. (April 1976) (silent), old Pathe newsreel footage of the first Western Air Express mail flights, title screens (April 17, 1976) (silent), State of Alaska supervisors on strike at the State of Alaska Fairbanks Regional Office Building, closed offices (April 1976) (silent), men working on boilers, aerial views of the power plant (April 1976) (sound and silent), an art show at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (April 1976) (silent), lines of people at the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Health and Social Services, and Job Services (April 1976) (sound), snow melting, trash along roadsides (April 19, 1976) (silent), men looking at boiler systems (April 1976) (silent), traffic on a road, a globe turned to Alaska, men talking over maps and print-outs (April 1976) (silent), an "OCS Delay Rally" sign, people speaking to a gathering in downtown Fairbanks (April 1976) (sound), campers and trucks from various states driving around the Fairbanks area (April 1976) (silent), traffic in downtown Fairbanks, aerial views of the city, construction (April 1976) (silent and sound), road-closed signs, bridge construction (April 1976) (silent), people protesting GVEA rates (April 1976) (Silent), and the aftermath of a car crash near downtown Fairbanks (April 1976) (silent).