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[Lounsbury film collection] [videorecording]
Title:
[Lounsbury film collection] [videorecording]
JLCTITLE245:
[videorecording]
Publication Information:
[between 1930 and 1950]
Physical Description:
3 videodiscs (ca. 106 min.) : si., b&w., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

2 videodiscs (ca. 90 min.) : sd., b&w., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Copied from 16mm film; may contain scratches and/or exposure and focus problems.

For AAF-9546 and AAF-9547: One DVD contains silent footage, and one DVD contains footage with added narration. Narrated footage contains some stops and pauses as narrator identifies people, locations, and activities.
Abstract:
AAF-9545 images include children, rotary snow plow, men outside F.E. company building, downtown Fairbanks, dredge, Pacific Alaskan Airways (PAA) hangar and people leaving, Cleary City Post Office, people posing, Billy Roots bus (?), Cleary Summit roadhouse, men with caterpillar tractor, small cat train in front of Service motors, Fairbanks streets, Jimmie Mattern signing autographs at PAA Hangar at Weeks Field, Mattern's airplane “Texan” and Russian flying boat at Weeks Field during search for Sigismund Levanevsky, people departing Fairbanks on Alaska Railroad (ARR), Richardson Highway Transportation Company bus, steamship travel in Southeast, gold dredge and thaw field, MST Company bus , boys at Fox, woman with horse at Cleary Summit roadhouse, boy with shovel, Chena River spring break-up, dog races, Sigrid Seppala wearing parka, Winter Carnival Parade, and dog races.

AAF-9546 images include Bob Reeve changing engine on his Fairchild 51 airplane and operating from the Valdez mudflats, dairy during winter, dog teams on ice, men pulling raft across river with tramway set-up, intentionally sliding Jeep, old Model T type truck towing sled across ice, ice fishing with nets and excellent catch, bridge across river on Alcan (?), dogsled, horse cart, salmon in village on river, netting fish, caterpillar clearing land, salmon spawning, spearing salmon, bridge, caterpillar pulling 6x6, fireweed, hauling mining equipment with 6x6, bird caught in wires, stuck truck is pulled by 6x6 and small cat train. Additional images include family travel outside of Alaska including national parks and family get-together. Additional footage includes boys playing basketball during winter, dark segment (?), boys throwing football, Fairbanks Winter Carnival parade, parachute drop, railroad travel, Broad Pass, travel in Southeast Alaska, outside travel to tourist destinations including Niagara Falls and Washington D.C., travel on the S.S. Aleutian in Southeast Alaska, railroad travel and family posing for camera. Additional footage includes Lounsbury brothers, father clearing lot with magnatrack, boys playing basketball and sledding during winter, preheating magnatrack, young men, travel on Alcan, family posing at Peace River bridge, family travel outside of Alaska. AAF-9546 with narration includes descriptions and identifications made by longtime Fairbanksan George Lounsbury on November 19, 2014. George and the Lounsbury family appear in portions of the film.

AAF-9547 images include travel outside of Alaska including Rose Bowl parade, followed by Alaska Railroad travel, tent camp in Mt. McKinley National Park and activity at camp, sled dog races on Chena River in Fairbanks, sled dog demonstrations, Fairchild 71 airplane on skis and pilot Ed Young, Russian Junkers arriving in Fairbanks in March of 1931 carrying body of Ben Eielson, funeral procession in Fairbanks carrying body of Ben Eielson to the railroad depot, road travel, chained bear, bison and sheep at the University of Alaska, hydraulic giant, bi-plane at Fairbanks with pilot A.A. Bennett (?), aerial view of Fairbanks, Alaska Railroad train travel, sternwheeler at Nenana, U.S. Army Pilot Captain Hoyt at Fairbanks and hand-propping airplane, riverboat travel, houses and yards in Fairbanks, and summer parade at Fairbanks, and Mayor Rothenburg of Fairbanks handing flowers to George Lounsbury's mother Fay Jennings. Additional footage (from Johnny Repo) includes canoe, small mining operation and cabin, moving mining equipment by barges marked as Florence and Alyum Mining Co,. moving dragline, group of men outside the roadhouse at Wiseman with man getting haircut, people crossing mouth of Wiseman Creek in boats during break-up on the Koyukuk River, rowing and paddling on river, cutting wood, Wien Alaska Pilgrim airplane at landing strip, Wien airplane on landing strip with pilot Tony Schultz, cabins at creek, assembling dredge, flying boat Sikorsky S-42 (?), Glass Flying Service at Valdez, Ford Tri-Motor takes off from Valdez, winter storm at Valdez, airplanes at Valdez from different companies including Lyle, Mirow and Reeve, Pilgrim airplane on skis taking off, aerial views of mountains and gold camp, J-2 (?) Piper airplane taking off, Jim Dodson aircraft, break-up on unidentified river, Wiseman (?), man sawing firewood, men building cabin, men whipsaw lumber, mining operation with dragline and hydraulic giants, large dead bull moose being hauled off, Caterpillar pulling small building, aircraft, and aerial view of Fairbanks and mining operation. AAF-9547 with narration includes descriptions and identifications made by longtime Fairbanks resident George Lounsbury on November 19, 2014. George and the Lounsbury family appear in portions of the film.

According to George Lounsbury in 2014, AAF-9545 was all filmed by Dan Lhamon. AAF-9547 begins with films shot by George Lounsbury's grandfather, Guy Jennings, on a trip out of Alaska to buy a new Buick automobile. Following the scenes of the log buildings and wall tents at the entrance of McKinley Park is Jennie R. Jennings, Guy’s wife, wearing a fur coat and standing closest to the camera at the far edge of a group of four women. Following the scene of the vehicle driving on the park road, is a close-up shot of Alice Nordale and Austin E. “Cap” Lathrop, who wore a bill cap. Following scenes of men washing dishes at McKinley Park, is a close-up shot of Fay Jennings, daughter of Guy and Jennie, with dark hair, (and Alice Nordale?), standing in front of a vehicle. Following scenes of a parade in Fairbanks and Mayor Rothenburg handing flowers to Fay Jennings who is wearing an aviation hat, there are scenes of a canoe and mining operations, and those films were shot by Johnny Repo (sp?). Scenes of airplanes at Valdez came from film obtained by the Lounsbury family through Bob Reeves. The final part of the reel, beginning with aerial views and then a color shot of the Ophir area, are films from Johnny Repo (sp?).
Ownership:
From the George Lounsbury collection. APR Collection Number 2015-215.
Location of Originals:
From the Alaska Film Archives, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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