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1 [Arnie M. Lee and Family collection - 9] This video is composed of footage from four film reels. AAF-16334 is from a film likely shot by Lee family friend Fred Torsak. It is labeled “1936?, Weeks Field airplanes, Cushman Street Bridge, Dad, dog team, polar bear.” (a post office date stamp on the film box says July 26, 1937). The film co... 1936-1939
2 Alaska Review 26 The first segment, "Rescue," is a repeat broadcast from another Alaska Review program (AAF-4958). The second segment, "See How They Run," is a repeat broadcast from another Alaska Review program (AAF-4957). The program also contains Public Service Announcements (PSAs) about child abuse prevention... 1979
3 [KFAR television news footage 2] This footage features men and women being searched by police, a dog sled race, raised homes, people on a sternwheeler, a building with a sign that says "Bank Interior City Branch," aerial views of Alaska countryside, an airplane dropping some type of powder or smoke, people racing and having fun ... 1967-1977
4 [Rockney Family films part 3] Two smaller film reels were combined to make this item. Reel 1 is labeled “Whitehorse” and contains scenes of Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory, sternwheeler riverboats and an airplane on floats on the Yukon River, Riverboat Aksala, railroad tracks, the church at Bennett Lake in Yukon Territory, ... 1935-1955
5 [Ft. Richardson and ATG and Lend-Lease aircraft with Russian markings at Nome, Turnagain by the Sea development and ATG... 3] Part 3 (AAF-1544) footage includes a sternwheeler, Eskimo dancers, a bear cub, Eskimo men gathering eggs and catching birds in flight, a tent, umiaks, loading freight in Nome, hauling meat with dog sleds, Governor Gruening swearing in Alaska Territorial Guard members, ATG members with rifles and ... 1940-1950
6 [George Steck collection 06] Footage features Women's North American sled dog racers starting from the Alaska Dog Mushers Association on Farmers Loop. 1960-1975
7 [KTVF news stories, snowmachine races, Golden Days, dog mushing] 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. The footage includes snowmachines racing around a track (story titled "Sports Snowmachine") (undated) (silent), snowmachines racing around a s... 1970-1975
8 [Seppala family film 1] Footage includes Leonhard with a dog team, Olympic activities at Lake Placid in 1932, Leonhard with dogs in Maine, Nome street scenes and lighter, small rail cars on Seward Peninsula Kougarok Railroad, a gold dredge and mining operations near Nome, passengers on the tug Dayton, aerial views of No... 1926-1946
9 [KTVF news stories from Fairbanks between 1970 and 1976] Footage includes a musher on a trail, a sled, a dog truck, a musher hooking up dogs and riding on a trail (1974), musher Harvey Drake being interviewed about sled dogs by reporter Chuck Benson (1974), Jerry Evans being interviewed by reporter Chuck Benson after winning a snowmachine race (1974), ... 1970-1976
10 [Drag racing, air show, parade, construction, family, Haul Road 2] AAF-10406 is made up of several smaller reels of film. Handwritten notes on original film boxes are as follows: “Good of mud going up Chandlar shelf, get caribou from Song River, caribou truck, caribou on Peterbuilt hood, Jason and Loren 18 mo old on porch.” “Children Jason, Loren, Larissa, Summe... 1975-1989
11 [Lounsbury film collection 4] AAF-10856 includes aerial views of Nome, the Nome waterfront, aerial views of the Seward peninsula, a mining operation, a truck pulling a long length of pipe, Mirow Air Service Loening flying boat airplane, a dredge operating on the Seward peninsula, a Pacific Alaska Airways Lockheed Electra, a C... 1930-1960
12 [Reindeer, Barrow, seal hunt, Nome] This is a compilation of Eskimo activities from several Van Valin films, and it contains some brief scenes that are not present on other films in the series. Footage includes reindeer herding as well as life and activities in Nome. Summary: Footage includes a reindeer round-up, herders examining ... 1917-1919
13 [George Steck collection 04] Footage includes winter scenery near Murphy Dome, very snowy streets and cars at Second and Cushman in Fairbanks, mushers preparing for sled dog races downtown, and sled dog races on Second Avenue. 1968
14 [North American Sled Dog Races in 1976] This footage features dog mushers and spectators at a dog mushing race, an interview with a musher, more views of spectators, and views of mushers (title of segment is "Women's N.A.") (aired March 22, 1976) (silent and sound). 1976
15 [KTVF news stories, McKinley Park, dog mushing, Yukon 800 boat race, forest fire] Specific dates and other information noted on the original film are given here in parentheses. The footage features views of mountains and scenery at Mt. McKinley National Park, a woman driving a vehicle into the park, a train, dog sledding footage (segment is titled "Mt. McKinley") (no date) (si... 1970-1980
16 Elitnaureyaraq Yupigtun AAF-14564 and AAF-14565 are films that contain identical scenes with AAF-14564 narrated in English and AAF-14565 narrated in Yupik. The film was produced by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs, Juneau Area Office, to demonstrate approaches to bi-lingual education in Ala... 1970-1975
17 [KTVF television news stories from Fairbanks between 1973 and 1977] Footage includes road and building construction, winter parking and cars with motors idling, summer traffic and parking, corroded pipes, the Safeway parking lot on Third Avenue, the Chena River, Fairbanks Police investigating a crime scene with a taxi cab that is in the bushes near a road, miscel... 1973-1977
18 [Fort Chilkoot region] The first section includes intertitles is titled "Transportation in Alaska." Footage includes a car on a narrow road and being pulled through snow by horses, Native men in a small boat poling on a river, a boat identified as a "war canoe," men with horses in a pack-train, a man on snowshoes, sled... 1940-1945
19 [Fairbanks ice carnivals and aviation] This footage features the 1929 Fairbanks Ice Carnival Queen contest, a flight with Ed Young, a film shot by Dan Lhamon, Howard Hughes in Fairbanks in August 1938 during his 1938 Around the World Flight in a Lockheed Super Electra, a Pan American airplane, a Pacific Alaska Airways airplane, a Wien... 1928-1945
20 [KTVF news stories, sports, Yukon 800, dog mushing, Equinox Marathon] 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 spectators in Fairbanks watching the Yukon 800 boat race, boats on the Chena River, boats on the Tanana River in Nenana, spec... 1970-1979