Alaska Film Archives

[KFAR television news footage 1]
[KFAR television news footage 1]
This footage includes classic cars in downtown Fairbanks, piles of trash and run-down property, remnants of a building that exploded, a public meeting, girls playing volleyball at the Lathrop High School gym, firemen extinguishing a fire at the Fairbanks city dump, a Coachways bus in Nenana, the dedication of the Parks Highway at the Hurricane Gulch Bridge, unidentified speakers and Governor Egan at the highway dedication, views of the run down condition of Main School, the spring break-up with large puddles, the Division of Transportation Rural Aviation Division facility, the 1970 or 1971 Great Tanana Raft Classic race down the Tanana River to Nenana, a University of Alaska basketball game, a Lathrop High School girls' basketball game, a Monroe Rams boys' basketball game, sled dog races, a hockey game, a Lathrop Malemutes boys' basketball game, Fairbanks downtown sled dog races on Second Avenue with Borough Mayor John Carlson, hockey, girls shooting free throws, a hockey game in the Beluga building on the UAF campus, a Monroe girls' basketball game, a men's basketball game, a hockey game at the Big Dipper (?), a Malemute boys' basketball game, cross-country ski races at the UAF campus, a Malemute boys' basketball game, Arctic Winter Games (?) athletes arriving in Fairbanks, Hez Ray, a bonfire, aerial views of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline pipe storage yards in downtown Fairbanks and at UAF, Midnight Sun 600 snowmachine race finishers at the Big Dipper in Fairbanks, and additional raft race footage.
[KFAR television news footage 4]
[KFAR television news footage 4]
Footage from around Fairbanks includes an Alaska State Trooper conducting a traffic stop, concrete being poured at a building construction site at UAF (?), a Boy Scout Camporee or Jamboree at Alaskaland, several cargo jets at Fairbanks International Airport, a drug education center called the Island, boys playing a baseball game, busses at Joy School, Fairbanks Curling Club matches, an Interior Airways Twin Otter airplane at a remote camp in the arctic, motorcycles on Chena Ridge, a Yamaha motorcycle dealership, construction at the Tanana Valley State Fair grounds, a Lathrop Malemute men's basketball game, the Wood Center at UAF opening, residents leaving Steel's Hotel and moving to the Polaris Hotel, voting precincts, beauticians, snow removal, moose in yards, a swearing in ceremony at the City Council (?), a dinner event at Alaskaland Community Center, Mayor Red Boucher receiving a trophy from Mayor Julian Rice, Red and Heidi Boucher dancing, an African American art and fashion show, a switching gear at the Municipal Utilities System (MUS) building, city garbage pick-up, a front end loader dumping snow on a burning cabin, an ambulance at an auto accident, a damaged Cessna airplane in a snowbank, Alaska Railroad passenger cars, an ambulance, people in St. Joseph hospital, the city dump, an elephant and a hippopotamus at Alaskaland, boating, children practicing archery, voting precincts, the Youth Conservation Corp working on Cripple Creek Campground, the Kaktovik Post Office building being loaded into a C-130 Hercules airplane, a small parade, the ceremonial opening of a picnic site (?), rides at the Fairground, Aurora Animal Clinic, parking meters around town, stock car racing at Mitchell or the North Pole Speedway, the city dump, and a heavy equipment loader that ran off the University of Alaska bridge being pulled from the Chena River.