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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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[Annabeth Hanlon collection 1]
[Annabeth Hanlon collection 1]
Footage includes a walking dragline and gold dredge in Ester, travel to Circle City, Indians in Circle showing parkas and furs, the sternwheeler Yukon arriving and passengers disembarking, buildings and scenes around Circle Hot Springs Resort, Eagle Summit, a brief view of the Miller House owners, children clearing snow from a skating rink, and various skating activities including racing and figure skating. Notes accompanying the original film can and box say "mining at Ester, Cripple Creek dragline, dredge, Dorothy Erin (?) go to Circle, Circle Indians, boat at Yukon, birds on road, Indian cemetery, Circle Springs, Miller House, Eagle Summit, Ada Williams, 1937 - Megan Florence and I go to Circle, school festival 1944"
[KTVF news stories, gasline, pipeline, Alaskaland]
[KTVF news stories, gasline, pipeline, Alaskaland]
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. This film features people in an auditorium commenting on a proposed Alaska gas pipeline (title of segment is "Gasline Public Hearing") (September 1975) (sound), scenes at a laboratory with blood and lung testing equipment, scenes of a baby nursery (title of segment is "Lung and Blood Tests") (September 1975) (silent), men welding sections of pipe (September 1975) (silent), boats and barges on the Arctic Ocean, a bulldozer pushing gravel, an interview about the race to unload barges at Prudhoe Bay as an early winter approaches, scenes with more barges (September 1975) (sound), people working on vehicles at various auto shops, the 76 station in Fairbanks (title of segment is "Auto-winterizing") (September 1975) (silent), shots of a campground about to be closed (title of segment is "Campgrounds Close") (September 1975) (silent), students on campus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Wood Center, Gruening Building, and Moore-Bartlett-Skarland dorm buildings (title of segment is "U of A Back to Classes") (September 1975) (silent), men looking at printouts of seismic activity (segment is titled "Earthquake Studies at U of A") (September 1975) (silent), men operating a drill-rig, the interior of a mine, a cart leaving the mine (title of segment is "Coal Mining") (September 1975) (silent), crowds shopping in downtown Fairbanks (title of segment is "Labor Day Shopping") (September 1975) (sound), exterior shots of a power plant, a Golden Valley sign (title of segment is "MUS Power Plant") (July 1975) (silent), runners crossing a finish line (title of segment is "Equinox Run") (September 1975) (silent), a mobile home trailer park, a gully full of water (title of segment is "Lake View Trailers/sewage") (September 1975) (silent), workers on a school bus, teams welding pipe sections, workers on a break (title of segment is "Pipe Welding") (September 1975) (sound), waterfowl and peacocks in pens at Alaskaland in Fairbanks (September 22, 1975) (silent), kids play on a playground near ATCO trailer units, interior views of trailer classrooms (no date) (silent), oil and mining equipment on display at Alaskaland (title of segment is "Oil and Mineral Show") (October 2, 1975) (silent), wolves in pens at Alaskaland (October 2, 1975) (silent), voting activities at various precincts in Fairbanks (title of segment is "Election 1975") (October 7, 1975) (silent), old Air Force scenes with various aircraft and scenes from World War II (title of segment is "Air Force Gooney Bird") (October 7, 1975) (sound), an overturned truck and smashed car in downtown Fairbanks, crowds watching as firefighters and rescue crews work at the scene (title of segment is "Car Crash") (October 15, 1975) (silent), views of trees (title of segment is "Herbicides Folio") (October 15, 1975) (silent), views of lights and light poles at outdoor hockey rinks, kids playing dodgeball (title of segment is "Hockey Lights") (October 15, 1975) (silent), a man installing pipes in a trench (title of segment is "Water Project Fairwest") (October 14, 1975) (silent), views of a construction site near downtown Fairbanks (October 14, 1975) (sound), a view of a "Keep Out" sign on a walkway over a street (title of segment is "Old Folks Home") (October 14, 1975) (silent), accommodations and facilities at Salvation Army and Fairbanks Rescue Mission (title of segment is "Charity Services") (October 17, 1975) (silent), a person feeding a bear through a chain link fence and attempting to coax the bear onto a ramp (title of segment is "Alaskaland Bear") (October 17, 1975) (silent), and construction of the Tanana Valley Clinic in Fairbanks (segment is titled "Clinic Addition") (October 21, 1975) (silent).