Title:
[1939 New York World's Fair, travel]
Identifier:
AAF-7632
Related Item:
Russ and Thelma Huber Film collection
Abstract:
This film reel is made up of 6 smaller reels. Reel 1 is labeled "West Point, World's Fair New York 1939," and it contains scenes of men doing calisthenics, men boxing, men fencing and wrestling, men in uniform and marching, and scenes from the world's fair. Reel 2 is labeled "New York to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, June and July 1939," and it contains footage of New York City streets, a West Point gathering, and Puerto Rico. Reel 3 is labeled "July 1939, Trip to Clearwater with Jim Ryan and Ray Henderson 193[?]," and it contains views of children playing, a pilot climbing into a biplane, people with a captive bear cub, Hap Arnold's B-10 Bomber flight from Washington D.C. landing at Weeks Field and pilots in Fairbanks in August 1934, a military aircraft at Weeks Field, a boy's birthday cake, children playing in a garden, and a boat on the Tanana River traveling to the Delta Clearwater River. Reel 4 is labeled "July and August 1939, Plymouth, Washington D.C., Marengo, Black Hills, Seattle, Juneau, Fairbanks," and it contains footage of Washington D.C., people at home, people swimming, farm scenes, a man in a boat, a family gathering, Mt. Rushmore, Elkhorn Mountain, camping, a family eating watermelon along the roadside, Columbia River, boats and fishing, Juneau, and trucks on the Richardson Highway. Reel 5 is labeled "Fort Riley - Marengo," and it contains scenes of men in uniform, children playing, a family gathering, farm scenes, a waterfront and ships, totem poles, glaciers and icebergs, a car towing a trailer, travel along the Richardson Highway, a glacier, "Devil's Elbow," a family at Christmas, hay being loaded, and women getting into a car. Reel 6 is labeled "Bear, Sunset, Village of Ruby, Caribou, Mendenhall Glacier," and it contains footage of the Ruby waterfront, wildlife, the Black Rapids Glacier near Richardson Highway during its advance in the 1930s, and scenery.
Contributor(s) Personal:
Russ Huber
Contributor(s) Personal Role:
Filmmaker
Contributor(s) Personal:
Thelma Huber
Contributor(s) Personal Role:
Filmmaker
Type of Resource:
moving image
Genre:
Actuality (B-roll)
Date Created:
1934-1945
Publisher Country:
United States
Extent:
16mm film; b&w; color; silent
Form:
film
Subject:
Calisthenics
Subject:
Fencing
Subject:
Wrestling
Subject:
Biplanes
Subject:
Bears
Subject:
Airplanes
Subject:
Cakes
Subject:
Gardens
Subject:
Boats
Subject:
Swimming
Subject:
Fishing
Subject:
Farms
Subject:
Camping
Subject:
Watermelons
Subject:
Totem poles
Subject:
Glaciers
Subject:
Icebergs
Subject:
Christmas decorations
Subject:
Christmas presents
Subject:
Mountains
Subject:
Automobiles
Decade(s) Covered:
1930-1939
Decade(s) Covered:
1940-1949
Continent:
North America
Country:
United States
State or Province:
Alaska
Region:
Alaska
Region:
Outside -- Not in Alaska
Region:
Interior Alaska
Physical Location:
Alaska Film Archives, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Copyright:
Under copyright
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