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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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[Alaska On Line: Red Boucher interviews Gover, Ohler, Dix, Olson, Seybert]
[Alaska On Line: Red Boucher interviews Gover, Ohler, Dix, Olson, Seybert]
In this episode of Alaska On Line, Red Boucher interviews experts about various Alaskan issues. In part 1, Red Boucher interviews George Gover about Alaska Native involvement in the Alaska economy. In part 2, Red Boucher interview Jason Ohler about education at the University of Alaska. In part 3, Red Boucher interviews Drew Dix about homeland security in the state of Alaska. In part 4, Red Boucher interviews Donald Olson about his life and how he got involved in politics. In part 5, Red Boucher interviews Orin Seybert about his life and the founding of Peninsula Airways. These programs were recorded on October 5, 2002.
[Alaska On Line: Red Boucher interviews Will Johnson]
[Alaska On Line: Red Boucher interviews Will Johnson]
In this episode of Alaska On Line, Red Boucher interviews Will Johnson, president of Yute Air, about bush airlines in Alaska. The program was recorded on November 8, 1997.
[Lounsbury film collection 1]
[Lounsbury film collection 1]
Footage includes children, rotary snow plow, men outside F.E. company building, downtown Fairbanks, a dredge, Pacific Alaskan Airways (PAA) hangar and people leaving, the Cleary City Post Office, people posing, Billy Roots bus (?), Cleary Summit roadhouse, men with a caterpillar tractor, small cat train in front of Service motors, Fairbanks streets, Jimmie Mattern signing autographs at PAA Hangar at Weeks Field, Mattern's airplane “Texan” and Russian flying boat at Weeks Field during search for Sigismund Levanevsky, people departing Fairbanks on Alaska Railroad (ARR), Richardson Highway Transportation Company bus, steamship travel in Southeast, a gold dredge and thaw field, MST Company bus , boys at Fox, woman with a horse at Cleary Summit roadhouse, a boy with shovel, Chena River spring break-up, dog races, Sigrid Seppala wearing parka, Winter Carnival Parade, and dog races.
[Senator Gruening talks with Barry Jackson]
[Senator Gruening talks with Barry Jackson]
Senator Ernest Gruening interviews Fairbanks City Attorney Barry Jackson about the Civil Aeronautics Board review of the Pan American World Airways route application for a Tokyo-Fairbanks-New York route.
[Senator Gruening talks with Merle Smith]
[Senator Gruening talks with Merle Smith]
Senator Ernest Gruening interviews Cordova Air Service President Merle "Mudhole" Smith about airline development in Alaska and problems encountered while trying to expand service to the Kenai Peninsula.
[Senator Gruening talks with Robert Eillis]
[Senator Gruening talks with Robert Eillis]
Senator Ernest Gruening interviews Ketchikan airline executive Robert Ellis about what affect the opening of the Alaska Marine Highway System will have on the airline industry and tourism in Alaska.
[Senator Gruening talks with Sig Wien]
[Senator Gruening talks with Sig Wien]
U.S. Senator Ernest Gruening interviews Sig Wien about Wien Alaska Airlines and a proposed route expansion to Juneau. Gruening also talks about Sig Wien rescuing him and his pilot, John Cross.