Part 1 (AAF-7975) is made of four segments. Segment one includes images of the walking dragline and conveyor system at the Fairbanks Exploration gold dredge operation at Ester, and views of downtown Fairbanks including cabins, gardens, George Thompson Library, St. Joseph Hospital and Catholic Church. Additional images include tailings piles, baseball team, night lights in Fairbanks, hiking, ice-skating at Griffin Park, sunset, Alaska Railroad train and Anchorage. Segment two was filmed during 1938 by ? Clark, a Kodak photographer traveling with Bradford Washburn, and includes Brad Washburn at Black Rapids, hydraulic giants, gold dredge at Ester, and men greasing dredge buckets on the bucket chain. Segment three includes images of the Fairview Hotel Fire in Fairbanks. Segment four, filmed during 1951, includes aerial views of Naknek, men sport fishing for salmon - Bob (on left) and Chuck (on right), Brooks waterfall, aerial view of bears, U.S. Air Force T-33 jet taking off, airport control tower at King Salmon, and a Piper PA-12 airplane on floats taking off and flying by.

Part 2 (AAF-7976) includes 1947 Fairbanks Winter Carnival scenes with title frames produced by Charles Gray & George W. Schaak. Images include the mutt parade, dog races, ice skating, parade, queen coronation, reindeer pulling sled, fireworks, parade, and car races with cars and trucks on the Chena River ice. Additional footage includes aerial view of Fairbanks, rooftop views and panorama of Fairbanks filmed from Federal Building on Second Avenue, downtown Fairbanks scenes, Riverboat Discovery, houses in Westgate subdivision at Fairbanks and houses in Slaterville, aerial view of University of Alaska, university buildings and campus scenes, University Avenue, Lathrop High School, Richardson Highway travel, family at Harding Lake cabin, waterskiing, children on rides at Tanana Valley State Fair, city powerplant, Travelers Inn, harvesting grain at University Experimental Farm, and children playing.

Part 3 (AAF-7977) includes a 1947 trip on the sternwheel riverboat "Nenana" between Nenana and Marshall with stops at Old Minto, Manley Hot Springs, Tanana, fishcamp, and villages along the Yukon River. Additional footage includes an aerial shot of the "Nenana" with the smokestacks removed during its final voyage to Fairbanks during 1960. Segment two includes additional "Nenana" scenes, unloading freight on beach at Marshall (?), Nome streets, and small rail cars with Kougarok Queen signs, Fairbanks town scenes, University of Alaska, Pan American Boeing 707 at Fairbanks, S.S. "Nenana," Chuck Gray with lake trout at Chandalar Lake, and men skinning a Polar Bear. Additional footage includes aerial coastal footage between Nome and Kotzebue, aerial view of Beluga Whales, animals on tundra, downtown Nome, gold dredge, Teller, Kotzebue waterfront, Cessna Bobcat airplane, Alaska Range, hydraulic giants and placer gold dredge operation with sluice box at Pedro Creek, fishing on the upper Chena River, Chena Hot Springs, trout at Paxson, Rainbow Mountain, Summit Lake, Richardson Monument, men skinning Polar Bear, Delta River during winter, Cessna 170 on airplane on skis landing and taking off on Copper Lake, other airplanes, aerial views of mountains, Isabelle Pass, migrating caribou, tearing down buildings in downtown Fairbanks, Kiwanis members building cabin at Bingle Camp at Harding Lake during 1983, fish camp of Tuckey Mayo on the Yukon River eight miles below the bridge on the Dalton Highway, and tearing down the Northern Commercial Company building in Fairbanks.

Part 4 (AAF-7978) includes footage of Seward, aerial view of Seward, and Anchorage following the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake. Additional images include Alaska Dog Mushers dogsled races at Fairbanks track on Farmers Loop Road, dogsled races with Le Mans style start, dogsled slalom race, snowshoe softball game, 1966 Golden Days Parade including Charlie Creamer driving car and George Clayton with his old truck. Final images are people on rides at the Golden Days Midway.