Alaska Film Archives - UAF

Alaska Film Archives - UAF

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has built one of the largest collections of historical films made in and about Alaska, thanks to hundreds of film and video donations from individuals and organizations. Since 1993 these materials have been held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library.

Your financial support is much appreciated and will help us continue important preservation work. Please choose “Rasmuson Library Archival Films Support” in the designation drop-down menu at: engage.alaska.edu/uaf/rasmuson-library

For more on historical resources available through UAF:
General - library.uaf.edu/aprca
Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives digital repository - archives.library.uaf.edu
Project Jukebox - jukebox.uaf.edu
Alaska's Digital Archives - vilda.alaska.edu

Contact: Angela Schmidt, Alaska Film Archives, (907) 474-5357 or [email protected]

Levanevsky at Harding Lake

Levanevsky at Harding Lake

Nome dogs at work, circa 1930

Nome dogs at work, circa 1930

Ketchikan, Alaska, 1986

Ketchikan, Alaska, 1986

Kodiak, 1964

Kodiak, 1964

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  • @nickstachowiak5717
    @nickstachowiak57174 жыл бұрын

    Awesome footage

  • @albertabennett3253
    @albertabennett32534 жыл бұрын

    woww

  • @donaldmcintoshdonaldmcinto8704
    @donaldmcintoshdonaldmcinto87044 жыл бұрын

    I flew Alaska until Dec. 74. I have yet to see a plane in the Inlet at Anchorage

  • @kimisdaman
    @kimisdaman4 жыл бұрын

    There's a picture of The Texan, posted on a facebook page devoted to the history of my hometown, Gig Harbor, WA; wonder if Mattern was enroute to Alaska?

  • @cherylchandler8130
    @cherylchandler81304 жыл бұрын

    I was in a crash in 1991. No positive comments from here.

  • @davidnorton2027
    @davidnorton20274 жыл бұрын

    I cannot find any evidence to support the idea that Lincoln Ellsworth was on this PBY Catalina flight with Sir Hubert, or ever in Fort Smith NWT, Canada. There is nobody in this video clip who resembles Ellsworth, either.

  • @alaskafilmarchives
    @alaskafilmarchives4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the information and your feedback. We have now noted in the description that details from the original title screen may be inaccurate.

  • @richardhawkinson9212
    @richardhawkinson92124 жыл бұрын

    The footage in this film appears to be exclusively Libby's Bristol Bay operations. The cannery footage appears to be the Graveyard plant on the Kvichak River, a cannery where my father worked many years as a cannery tender skipper. I wish he were alive to see this, it's great footage. I belive the cannery tender at 4:24 may be the Beaver. The yellow color of the boat hulls made it easy to spot company boats on the water.

  • @alaskafilmarchives
    @alaskafilmarchives4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the information and identifications!

  • @richardhawkinson9212
    @richardhawkinson92124 жыл бұрын

    @@alaskafilmarchives My pleasure. I thank you for making this available.

  • @jacobeksor6088
    @jacobeksor60884 жыл бұрын

    In America they recognized Inuit is indigenous to the land but in VN Vietnamese they not recognized Montagnard indigenous to the land they called us ethnic seem like we are not belong to the land and we have no indigenous rights also Vietnamese to racism.

  • @Bill-cv1xu
    @Bill-cv1xu4 жыл бұрын

    Ya lost the sound track? Lol

  • @lindaeasley4336
    @lindaeasley43364 жыл бұрын

    The largest earthquake to ever strike the United States .

  • @zookster4701
    @zookster47014 жыл бұрын

    I had no sound at all

  • @verabolton
    @verabolton4 жыл бұрын

    Hungarian earl Széchenyi Zsigmond stayed here in 1935 during his hunting tour in Alaska. There is a photo of this hotel in his book.

  • @martinaionfrida2606
    @martinaionfrida26064 жыл бұрын

    absolute legend. wsop 1981

  • @joshgalka9414
    @joshgalka94144 жыл бұрын

    Nice!

  • @602tnt
    @602tnt4 жыл бұрын

    So awesome to see how they got gold from back in the day. The size of those buckets are insane. Thank you for sharing!

  • @Bill-cv1xu
    @Bill-cv1xu4 жыл бұрын

    Pud row bay,lol

  • @rickholmstrom2944
    @rickholmstrom29444 жыл бұрын

    And Judy Warwick in the carpet, refrigerator & hot air ads!!!

  • @Bill-cv1xu
    @Bill-cv1xu4 жыл бұрын

    Aww

  • @Tlanth
    @Tlanth4 жыл бұрын

    Mentioned in "The Flyboys of Talkeetna" by Jon Krakauer

  • @kathyoberle9093
    @kathyoberle90934 жыл бұрын

    Firm has no sound

  • @Johnnyred51
    @Johnnyred514 жыл бұрын

    I studied theatre at Theatre UAF from 1981-1986. Graduated in 1986 with a BA Theatre. Lee Salisbury was one of my reasons I went on to a wonderful career in the performing arts.

  • @chucklotro8749
    @chucklotro87494 жыл бұрын

    these guys were still using Mercury o.O 4:15

  • @ruthdaskaloff5066
    @ruthdaskaloff50664 жыл бұрын

    My family and I were in Fairbanks, during this flooding. We were on 16 street in upstairs apartment. The water flooded the lower floor of unit, so two families came up to our apartment. We now grew from a family of 4 to family of 12. Our second son was a new baby, born April 3, 1967 at the small Alaskan hospital in Fairbanks.Our morning started out early with heavy military equipment helping some families. One of the units there where we were had a wonderful doctor, and he administered Typhoid shots to all. We were taken in boat to his apartment and then given the shots. I had a reaction to the typhoid shot. I went into anaphylactic shock. I could hear everyone talking, but my motor skills were dead. After 7 days with swirling waters, and many people in our small apartment, the water level went down. My husband went downstairs, to our small VW bug, and attempted to start it. It immediately started. but as one can imagine, it was soaked and smelly from the waters. My husband was working in the civilian department of Fort Wainright. He managed to get early release from his job, and got us out by plane, back to California.I am sorry I did not get out much as I took care of our two babies, plus a neighbor child. Our two years was not to eventful. We do have some happy moments in Fairbanks, however.

  • @Tundraatea
    @Tundraatea4 жыл бұрын

    9:26 tanning

  • @windellmcspindell3652
    @windellmcspindell36524 жыл бұрын

    I was there. My dad was stationed at Ft Wainwright and we lived in off base housing. I was 10 years old and attended Chena Elementary school. I remember the flood vividly and the earthquake the next year.

  • @ruthdaskaloff5066
    @ruthdaskaloff50664 жыл бұрын

    I too remember the earthquake. However my memory was of earthquake before the rains and floods. The complex we lived at had 4 units. the one below us was half under ground, with windows looking out at ground level. We had neighbors across from us, that panicked. I had just had our second child April 3, 1967, and our oldest April 1, 1965. So I grabbed both babies, and tried to get downstairs, when this huge man pushed me down as he panicked.

  • @smallfish6462
    @smallfish64624 жыл бұрын

    Feels bad, man just wanted to follow his dream and a bunch of Germans got sent to 1977 Alaska.

  • @thisguytrucksoldtrailer6875
    @thisguytrucksoldtrailer68755 жыл бұрын

    That plane is still there to this day I flew over it in a c172

  • @localcrew
    @localcrew4 жыл бұрын

    Corbin Hollman Funny you should mention it because I’m thinking to myself “Man, that would be borderline as to whether it would be worth salvaging or not...” “Not so much” as fate would have it, I suppose. My dad flew these in the early fifties. Not this flight, I’d hasten to add.

  • @fasx56
    @fasx565 жыл бұрын

    The skills the Eskimo people have developed from generation to generation just to stay alive in such a cold climate are to be admired and respected. Even with such a difficult life there seems to be a lot of smiles, enjoyed watching this valuable piece of history.

  • @robertgift
    @robertgift5 жыл бұрын

    Cause?

  • @esperanzamejorada3695
    @esperanzamejorada36955 жыл бұрын

    Super sad I live in the great alaska 2019

  • @clofsvold
    @clofsvold5 жыл бұрын

    This is very interesting....My uncle Weaver's oral history of life in Alaska during the 40's, 50's and 60's. I am amazed at how sharp his memory was at 90 years old.

  • @griffinplush6628
    @griffinplush66285 жыл бұрын

    #NoPebbleMine

  • @xivwords5448
    @xivwords54485 жыл бұрын

    32000 a year? I could do it for a third of that.

  • @paulcox2294
    @paulcox22945 жыл бұрын

    I participated in the race, 1968. Ninty-six rafts started the race and only thirteen finished. The rest broke up in the river. No drownings, but it was a miracle. We finished sixth. 568th Transportation Company, Ft Wainwright. I think back on it often.

  • @olegmalyk1639
    @olegmalyk16395 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this video. Love to see historical videos. Especially the ones dear to you

  • @jimnorthland2903
    @jimnorthland29035 жыл бұрын

    Last part of the film is in Wrangell. Note the wigwam burner at the sawmill in front of AJ Mill?

  • @markvolker1145
    @markvolker11455 жыл бұрын

    Very inefficient but cool!

  • @AlexLee-bm9qb
    @AlexLee-bm9qb5 жыл бұрын

    It's the white people they always break the law and kill moose bears .and any kind of animals .why do you think they ars moving to alaska because they don't care.get drones and catch even close to the artic circle.kot of trophy hunters sneaking around there and pilots are getting paid lots of money to keep there mouth shut.

  • @johnlawrence7964
    @johnlawrence79645 жыл бұрын

    Ha! I worked at Goldies on 4th ave! Last time I was in Anchorage 12 years ago it was "The Hub" bar.

  • @MisterBeauJanGels
    @MisterBeauJanGels5 жыл бұрын

    The owner of The Hub (Lloyd Dahl, I think?) was shot to death after closing time by intruders some years ago and the place was never the same. That whole half-block was torn down and replaced by the Anchorage Fire Department headquarters and the relocation of Fire Station 1 around 15-20 years ago. I remember the "bar block" on 4th Avenue stretching over the better part of five blocks (most of the length between Barrow and E streets). Most of my memories of the 1970s are pretty dim, though. I'm tempted to dig up a Polk directory so I can place some of the more obscure locations in this clip.

  • @freddiepeoples6150
    @freddiepeoples61505 жыл бұрын

    Wow looks like all of that was about 2 sink wow

  • @gawthrop
    @gawthrop5 жыл бұрын

    According to the www.valdezmuseum.org website as of 29 December 2018, the video depicted here is copyrighted by Century Film Productions Actual Alaska Earthquake Movies P.O. Box 8027 Northgate Station Seattle, Washington 98125 Photo Catalog number 2000.018.0001

  • @mikebecket7458
    @mikebecket74585 жыл бұрын

    And I was there right near the big pile of wood that was the Park strip

  • @mikebecket7458
    @mikebecket74585 жыл бұрын

    Damn I was born bsck then in anchorage s nd yes thats downtown.

  • @juliasmith5267
    @juliasmith52675 жыл бұрын

    Truly liked the video. :D