Policeman holding compress on head wound of young man lying on North Riverside / ambulance with open door / / roofless concrete transmitter building on top of Mount Ashland, pan to rocky summit

For more footage of accident and transmitter building, see SOHS FIlm No. 1581

Man walking down street past police car to scene of accident / police bending over man and motorcycle on North Riverside, Snuffy's Office Equipment, 1112 N. Riverside, and Yvonne's Millinery, 1110 N. Riverside, in background / policeman applying pressure to head wound, small first-aid kit open / ambulance arrives / / summer view of Mount Ashland and ski runs / ski lift as seen from mountain top, pan across construction site / men pounding nails, shoveling concrete / view of roofless concrete radio or television transmitter building

For more footage of accident and transmitter building, see SOHS FIlm No. 1583

Closeup of swan in pond / pan across crowded Feast of Will tables on lawn, Lithia Park / people getting drinks from table set up by van, bagpipers march by / dancers performing with pantomime horse / Elizabethan band / Elizabethan dancers perform

For more 1969 Feast of Will footage see SOHS No. 1580

Back of pickup with sign: "Pepsi Anti-Litter Patrol, In Cooperation with the Governor's Commission on Youth, A Pepsi Service" / young men with burlap bags picking up trash from shoulder of freeway between Medford and Phoenix, Barneburg Hill and Rogue Valley Manor in background / / upside-down private plane in ditch / ambulances and crowd by side of road, pan to plane in ditch between road and line of railroad boxcars (in White City?) / people pick up wreckage and move to ditch

See SOHS Film No. 1576 for more footage of litter crew

Black and white: sign: "Cheney Forest Products, Cheney Studs," wigwam burner and Grange Coop grain elevator in background, Central Point / man painting pole at Cheney mill, pan up to Cheney sign / bulldozer driving across mill yard / young men raking hay between Medco plant and Court Street, various shots, Big Y in background / / Color, faded to red: men sitting around table, point at moon chart / examine rocks / closeups of rocks / photomicrographs of rocks / diamond saw cutting rock / polishing rock sample / examining sample under microscope / photomicrographs / men with moon chart again

View South on East Main Street from Plaza, pan to city hall / interior: office directory on wall / city truck / city seal on door of truck / sign: "Who Pays for City Services?" / secretary at desk, talking on phone / other secretaries at desks / looking south on East Main again / city hall and Plaza from south

Ashland footage was apparently shot to illustrate Ashland "budget crisis" story. See Ashland Tidings and Medford Mail Tribune, both July 15, 1969, page 1.

Men in office discuss break-in with Medford policeman  / desk drawer jimmied open / broken door / broken piggy bank / / luncheon meeting: speaker at lectern on dais / pans across audience, dais / speakers

Good color, sound: Standing next to Apollo space capsule mockup, Air Force sergeant interviews two Air Force officers working with NASA about their roles in the Apollo moon shot

Men get out of Jackson County Vector Control pickup near I-5 / fog exits rear of pickup, they drive off / pickup slowly bounces across field, fogging all the way

Camera follows cars and trucks pulling trailers, pickups with campers, the occasional motorhome pass by camera on I-5 between Phoenix and Talent / / meeting: shots of participants, pans across audience / / VIPs chat and toy with golf clubs while sitting on bench

For more footage of I-5 subjects, see SOHS Film No. 1566

Emil and Mollie Britt give a silent tour of the Peter Britt studio in the Britt house, to voiceover narration. "Picture Pioneer" is a short subject from Universal's Person-Oddity series.

Transferred to this disk from a flash drive copy of our VHS copy. The Britt short subject starts 3 minutes into the recording.

Good color, silent: meeting in board room / speaker / group touring marine laboratory / man pulls string of scallop shells, with oyster spat attached, out of tank / man removes young oysters from tank / interviews beauty pageant contestant on stage / shots of spectators / Coos County contestant / / black and white: young women milling about at Medford Airport / holding banner: "Au Revoir, Martha, Off to Switzerland" / pan across Girl Scouts holding signs: "Bye Martha," "Good Luck in Switzerland," "Bon Voyage" / Martha, in Girl Scout uniform, chats with well-wishers / jetliner taxiing on runway / pan across well-wishers with signs / closeups of same /

Martha is Martha Lamb one of 16 Girl Scouts in U.S. invited to attend the 1969 Golden Jubilee Camp of Girl Scouts in Switzerland. Woman on right at 1:04 talking to Martha is her mother, "Mrs. Douglas Lamb." Photos in Medford Mail Tribune, July 13, 1969, page C1.

Black and white, silent: Night: highway accident scene: headlights, flares, cars driving  by, police directing traffic with flare / tow truck connecting to damaged car / / good color, sound: Bob Packwood sitting in front of curtain, speaking about his attendance record during his first six months and his intent to keep that record high / / good color, silent: timber carnival, presumably Albany: shots of audience by side of pond / log chopping competition / one-man log bucking

For more of same footage of timber carnival, see SOHS Film No. 1558

Parade, Ashland: woman in Arabian garb on Arabian horse, color guard, Heirloom Antiques and Bob's Lunch in background / more color guards / color guard filmed from rear, Plaza in background / twirlers / Ashland City Band / Lincoln Summer School kids on decorated bikes / girls twirling flags / Scottish bagpipers, Lyle's in background / Araceli Macias and Maria Loyo from Guanajuato, Miss Rogue Valley Pat Heaney, John Dellenback, Cathy Riffe, Janet Hayes, C. M. Keen in open cars / Fire House 5 band in fire truck / footage from second floor: parade from above, Oregon Caveman carrying girl over shoulder to jail on trailer /

Photos and articles in Ashland Tidings, July 5, 1969, pages 1 and 8, July 6, pages 1 and 7. Sister city relationship with Guanajuato was then under discussion.

Pan across Medford City Council meeting, seen from seating area / pans across audience / floor-level shots of councilors, staff / / water flowing over spillway at top of dam, pan to wooded lake / looking down on waterfall from top of dam, pan to river / man in tie and shirtsleeves standing on top of dam / over-the-shoulder shot as he looks at lake, pan to lake / more of same / man poses by generator / pan across generator / hatchery ponds /

Judge sitting at bench, smiling / / meeting: pan across participants / / men sitting in hangar on tables and chairs / looking out hangar door at borate bomber / pan across B-24 bombers / closeup of engine / Forest Service truck door, pan to hangar / men in hangar again / / open door of Medford fire station, downtown Medford / private plane landing at airport / control tower and parking lot, Medford Airport / small plane taking off / closeup of large fire extinguisher on airport tarmac

For more footage of judges and meeting, see SOHS Film No. 1552

Black and white, silent: pan across meeting in small room / closeup of woman attendee / man talking on telephone / / color, completely faded to red, sound: California Highway Patrol driver training course, patrol cars doing maneuvers, demonstrating techniques: defensive driving message / "If you have to get off the road, grip the wheel tightly and stay off the brake, because skidding wheels won't steer" / "A Public Service Announcement from the Automotive Safety Foundation" / / black and white, silent: same meeting as at beginning of reel, similar footage

Banquet scene: VIP speaking at lectern in darkened room / pans across audience, dais / closeup of same speaker

Preschool classroom full of children led in dancing and jumping / eating lunch around tables: girl with black eye / sign: "White City Day Care Center" / / Jackson Pool: young girl swimmers dive into lanes, breaststroke across pool / judge shows record sheet: "Girls AAU Entry Card"

Meeting in Jackson County Courthouse auditorium / closeup of speaker / spectators / woman handling checks / man at blackboard tote board labeled "Sale Name," "Volume," " App. Price," "Min. Dep." "Total" / / people wearing nametags registering for event at tables, handed folders of papers / sign: "FOE," pan to building

Man speaking at lectern / / pan across rolling hills / ranchers standing in field, discussing / pan across sheep grazing /

Relaxed people sit and grin in unidentified office and talk to cameraman / secretary at work / man on telephone / people sit and schmooze / / street signs: Main and Front streets, Medford, barriers across Main Street, pan to railroad crossing under construction / gandy dancers work on section of track, Crater Lake Motors in background / unballasted track in place across Main, pan to Jackson County Federal Bank /

Good color, silent: Navy fighter planes flying in formation / pan across fleet of destroyers and freighters / gunsight camera footage of dogfights over ocean / destoyer firing guns

Color completely faded to red, sound: quick cuts of construction workers wolfing down lunch / "Eating plenty is not always eating well" / Workers laying out banquet on steel beam: "Find a quiet nook, relax--eat a sensible, nutritious meal that will keep your diet and you balanced" (message from American Lung Association) / / good color, silent: pan across parking lot, Crater Lake / black and white: luncheon / VIP speaking at lectern