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Cover image for [Airplanes, Unalaska, Anchorage, B-10 bombers, cat train] [videorecording].
[Airplanes, Unalaska, Anchorage, B-10 bombers, cat train] [videorecording].
Title:
[Airplanes, Unalaska, Anchorage, B-10 bombers, cat train] [videorecording].
JLCTITLE245:
[videorecording].
Publication Information:
[between 1931 and 1946]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 42 min.) : si., b&w., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Copied from raw film footage; may contain scratches and/or exposure and focus problems.
Abstract:
Summary: Images include men push amphibious seaplane through mud at Anchorage Airport, Anchorage Air Transport biplane airplane performs aerobatic maneuvers and stunts before landing at Anchorage where pilot poses. Images from the 1934 Unalaska Floating Court include views of the coast, houses and village scenes at Unalaska, people board ship from small launch, sailors on ship, and puppies. Additional images include B-10 bombers commanded by Hap Arnold at Weeks Field in Fairbanks during 1934, Alaska Transfer Company building and small girl in Anchorage, Matanuska Valley farm, Koslosky's General Store and buildings in Palmer, Alaska Railroad brill car, hockey game in Anchorage, family picnic, cabin, group of Shriners, airplane flies over, Alaska Railroad steam locomotive and train cars, Anchorage street following snowstorm, men shovel snow, bird in cage, taxi stuck in snow, and woman with husky that is nursing bear cubs. Images filmed between March and April 1946 include dog races and queen contestants at the Fairbanks Ice Carnival, C-47 airplane at Ladd Field, aerial view of flight from Fairbanks across Goldstream tailings to the Yukon River and across the Brooks Range and over a Cat train on the Colville River near Umiat. Images at Barrow include unloading Fairchild C-61 cargo plane (image reversed), machine shop burning, Cat Train loaded with fuel and drilling supplies on the Arctic Ocean ice headed for Umiat, Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL) scenes of buildings and tracked vehicles including weasel tracked-vehicles, small skiplane is serviced and aerial view of Will Rogers and Wiley Post memorial marker near Barrow.

Summary: Additional images include family vacation footage filmed in the Pacific Northwest, placer mine and dredge in the Yukon Territory, Roy Rogers and parade in California.
Ownership:
From the Daily - Romig collection/Joseph Herman Romig Family papers. APR collection number 2001-145.
Location of Originals:
From the Alaska Film Archives, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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