Good color: Young women unload suitcases, bedrolls from cars, enter dormitory of unidentified university / arriving at elevators / pan across crowds of teens assembling on grass football field / teens eating on grass / tight closeup of teenage boy eating chicken / on theater stage: girls being instructed in pageant choreography / groups of girls and boys pass each other on campus / boy and teacher examine small engine

Gate 3, Medford Airport, VIPs arrive, shake hands with other VIPs, chat / / closeup of certificate of membership in Mail Users Council / sorting mail, Medford post office / several closeups of same / certificate again / / Elizabethan Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, long shot rehearsal in street clothes under way / closeup of rehearsal, actors exit, director directs / view of rehearsal from above / view of seating area from inside set / more rehearsal shots

County Commissioner Earl Miller standing, speaking / man sitting in audience speaks / commissioners / pan across audience / more of same / man at blackboard draws diagram of city streets, Eric Avenue, Jackson Creek, Central Point / closeup of Henry Padgham speaking / / open-air pavilion with banner: Medford Senior High School Class of '68 / speaker at lectern / graduates file past lectern, various out-of-focus shots

Traffic on rural artery (Table Rock Road?) / traffic through windshield, northbound on Hwy. 99 south of Central Point / stopped at traffic signal, through windshield

Robert Kennedy riding in open car, Medford (two scratches in film) / car stops / long shot of RFK plowing through crowd / overexposed closeups of Kennedy speaking in front of Medford City Hall / shots of Kennedy from behind, crowd / / pan across map of Ashland Plaza, Guanajato Way / artist's conception drawing of modernized creek side of Plaza buildings / tight closeups of drawing

See SOHS Film No. 1315 for more footage of RFK visit to Medford

See SOHS Film No. 1329 for footage of RFK memorial service

People huddled under umbrella on Caveman Bridge, Grants Pass / announcer interviews young man / pans across crowd in park from bridge / spectators snack / pan across hydroplane boats as they depart from riverbank / boats speed past camera / officials in vests  / parachutists fall into Rogue River, aiming for inner-tube target / announcer narrates / more boats speed past / announcer with microphone interviews winner (no sound), pan to trophies

View of banquet/luncheon from above, Medford Armory / pan across old people eating from paper plates / / people lined up on horseback, Talent area / they ride up to young woman and collect ribbons / pans across scene: pickups, horse trailers / closeup of trophy and Ashland Wranglers ribbons / man trots around ring on horseback

View from outside of people milling about in storefront / Congressman Bob Duncan on phone / Bob, still on phone / pan across people milling about, drinking coffee, smoking, framed photo of Duncan on wall along with Avis Rent-a-Car "We Try Harder" sign / woman hands out political signs / Duncan shakes hands with people, signs autograph / on sidewalk: Duncan schmoozes, passes out buttons or something / Dunca talks with man holding Duncan campaign sign

Entrance to Jackson County Courthouse Auditorium with "Vote Here" signs / interior, with poll watchers, people waiting, people in voting booths / "Precinct Republican" and "Precinct Democratic" signs on booths / "Notice to Voters" sign about misdmeanor to sign if not resident in the precinct / closeup of paper bag with "Vote: The Adult Toothpaste" on it / poll watchers / closeup of ballot box with Transport Carrier Control Log form / voter placing ballot in box / pan across scene / ballot, "Insert Card Here" slot

Eugene McCarthy at microphone (silent) / audience member wearing McCarthy button / Gene at mike again / pan across crowd / photo of Gene on curtain, pan to Gene / more of same / McCarthy at "HJH" lectern / reporters at cameras / audience applauds /

Photo and article in Medford Mail Tribune, May 27, 1968, page 1. McCarthy spoke to a crowd of 2,200 at Hedrick Junior High School. See Also MMT 5/26/1968p1.

Man demonstrates Vot-o-matic voting system / demonstrating computer / punch cards going through machine / pulling out printed readout / punch cards being sorted / printing readout / pulling out and examining readout / tour group examining, signing readout / man at control panel / magnetic tape reels spinning / / luncheon scene, nurse smoking / inside hospital patient room / nurse receives pin, returns to seat / nurses at table / nurse with defribrillator / pan across luncheon / speaker

B&W, silent: Closeup of actress Jill St. John, talking, at lumber mill / greeting, talking to millwrights, passing out buttons or stickers or something (she was campaigning for Eugene McCarthy) / she tours inside of mill / climbs to catwalk, pan across interior / / Color slightly faded, silent: map of Oregon, zoom in on Eastern Oregon, animated lines drawn from Ontario to Pendleton to Medford to Roseburg to Coos Bay to Salem to Portland to Astoria

Article and photo of St. John (in same outfit) in Medford Mail Tribune, May 22, 1968, page 1. No mention of which mill she toured.

Man points down railroad tracks, warehouse district, downtown Medford, pan to distance / tracks in foreground, 1900 Medford freight depot in background / "Private Property" sign by tracks / traffic and street sign: 10th and Front / tracks and depot from roof of Medford Grocery Co. building, 10th and Front / warehouses: view of South Front Street looking south from 10th / train passing: view from middle of future 10th Street / boxcars being shunted / views of warehouse district from above / same man surveys scene / "Truck Route" sign / truck passes on South Front / / Medford postmaster Al Bradford / Al holds "Law and Order" stamp flyer with police by his side / grins, uncomfortable schmoozing /

Snader Telescriptions musical number: "Yodeling Boogie" by Wesley Tuttle and his Westerners

Wesley Tuttle, backed by quintet, sings in "barnyard"--woman seated on floor claps along. Tuttle introduces band as they perform their solos.

"Community Services Crime Prevention" van, zoom in on door logo: "Sheriff, Josephine County"  / officer showing and explaining van equipment: doppler radio locator, generator / Grants Pass Police Crime Prevention Unit squad car / / interview with man about chase of criminals with stolen cars and motorcycle / / meeting, silent / / interview with California Highway Patrol officer sitting on hospital bed with bandaged arm good-naturedly discussing his prognosis and what it was like getting shot / / live merganser on lake / "Neumann & Bennetts, Inc., Klamath Falls, Ore." on side of building / stacks, racks and piles of decoys / factory floor / interview with decoy business owner about his oversized decoys / duck on lake / decoy on dock

Shot sheets in M1B Box 3 describe clips 5294-5298 thusly:

5294 grants pass exhibition

5295 cars

5296 vocational teachers

5297 klamath falls duck decoy mfg.

5298 calif-chp officer perkins on how he was wounded

Interview with ranger about campground at lake in its first year of operation  / / inflating hot air balloon, "Zane" on back of pilot's jumpsuit and on balloon / interview with Zane: "this mountain is the highest in the U.S. as far as a balloonist is concerned" / flame filling balloon with hot air / Zane outfitted with helmet, oxygen mask / / "Delah on Strike" sign, strikers on road in White City / mill / / construction--concrete forms being built next to building / forms for concrete ramp / / shots of dirt roads in woods / interview with college or community college official about students "513 registered to date" / / petting zoo tent / toddler petting sheep / girl petting baby llama / girl picks up kid / / "Little Shasta Church 1876" on church building, snowy mountains in background / woman talks about church activities, plans to replace the spire / closeup of steeple / / Vern Loy talks about tennis tournament, largest number of entries ever / / interview with man on city street about property tax relief, state budget projections / / interview with man (silent) / / meeting in courtroom (out of focus) / pan across scene, men at table, spectators / / interview with man about unidentified business his city (Ashland?) operates, separated from governmental functions by city charter / / "Southern Oregon Tennis Tournament" banner on fence, people playing tennis / scorekeepers

Shot sheets in M1B Box 3 describe clips 5335-5352 thusly:

5335 f&s corps of eng.

5336 balloon over mt. shasta

5337 strike

5338 ceta

5339 rare two

5340 sosc

5341 zoo sil

5342 cheerleaders

5343 tennis sof

5344 calif-church

5345 budget

5346 whittenburg sil

5347 medford council hearing sil

5348 bob lee on water comm.

5349 gold hill

5350 sports--kids sil

5351 weather

5352 tennis sil

Multistory Oregon Institute of Technology building under construction / "Dr. Wright" speaks about need for library building--library had been moved out of "commons building" into basement of gymnasium--asking for a $4.5 million library building--only college in the state system that doesn't have a library building--need for dormitories / silent shots of construction / / brief, truncated interview with woman about Rogue Community College, have done away with arena registration, classes are geared to adult students, describes college programs

Shot sheets in M1B Box 3 describe clips 5642-5643 thusly:

5642 oit building--prez

5643 r.c.c.

Silent, color completely faded to red: Rider gallops up to man holding horse, mounts and rides off (Pony Express reenactment) / Woodrow Wilson rides up in early car, speaks to pilot / mailbags loaded onto Curtiss Jenny / Jenny takes off / / B&W: elderly VIPs (veteran airmail pilots?) holding mailbag / poster: "50th Anniversary U.S. Air Mail" / man carries bag onto DC-9 / / Silent, color completely faded to red: view over wing of biplane at low altitude / loading mailbags onto airmail plane at night / still photos of airmail planes / passengers boarding airmail plane / sorting mail / Ford Trimotor in air / / B&W: man exits Pacific Northwest Bell car in TV station parking lot with stack of phone books, hands them to women / interior: women distribute books in KTVM 5 offices

Men talking around table in empty coffee shop or lodge / deserted lake / pan across docks, boats, canoes / back to men talking, "Medford Oregon" banner visible on wall

High schoolers lounging near parking lot, "Homecoming" banner in distance / various shots, closeups of group / / Duff Water Treatment Plant construction site near Rogue River / family with three small children, man points to building / pans of building / interior plumbing, tanks, control room, construction workers / settling tanks, water flowing / concrete being poured / control room, panel

Bob Duncan walks to building at lumber mill / shakes hands with millwright / hands brochure to driver of loader / hands brochures and shakes hands with other workers / / good color, silent: man spray paints small aircraft / stewardess poses with airplane / larger West Coast jet airliner taxiing / stew waves at airplane / executives pose with plane in new livery / tug tows plane on tarmac

B&W footage is badly developed.

Man shovels gravel from roadway into truck / Grants Pass Sanitation Service truck arrives / following sanitation truck through windshield of car / garbage men load trash onto truck / hydraulic compactor panel on truck opens / loaded dump truck speeds past  / / fire wardens with Medford Fire Department truck / warden walks to residence, interviews family at doorstep

Titles: "Progress Parade Issue No. 8" "Mapping Your Vacation": service station attendant services couple in convertible / motorist pulls road map from rack / couple examine map with attendant, he gives directions / closeup of map / traveling shot of cartographers at drawing tables / mapmakers examine maps, books, paste town name on map / man at "touring service" marks map for custom trip / "Our country is the only one in the world where road maps are provided free by oil companies" / couple drive past / / "Oil and Water DO Mix": seagull, wake of ship, freighter on ocean / deck hands painting deck / in engine room / aerial shot of oil tank farm / hoses connected to tanker / valves / tanker casts off and gets under way / ship's telegraph / mess room / storm at sea / captain at map table / radio shack / barges on inland waterway / railroad tank cars / oil pipelines / oil tank truck, Citadel Oil Co. / connecting hoses to unload tanker / shipbuilder's drawing room / welding in boatyard / launching ship / / "Teeth of the Hunter": oil derrick in field / hauling up pipe / drilling bit / closeup of bit: "the teeth of the hunter" / different types of bits / man holds driling plug / jet bit / display of different sizes of bits / lifting lengths of pipe to change bit / hoisting new bit to rig platform / spinning pipe on rig / / "These true stories of progress of work have been presented as a public information service oby the American Petroleum Institute" "The End"
 

Titles: "This Week's News in Review" / / "On the Political Firing Line": "Joseph McCarthy tangled with Secretary of the Army Stevens" / McCarthy and Roy Cohn in hearing, ex-President Truman on New York City sidewalk entering NBC Studios / sound kinetoscope: Senator Flanders on McCarthy ("His is a one-man party, and its name is McCarthyism") / Eisenhower in press conference (silent) concurs with Flanders, Eisenhower walks to car / / "Puerto Rico: Terrorist Roundup": police in crowd, police arresting people / portrait of Campos / seized firearms, bullet holes in door / / "U.S. Bombers Fly Home": nonstop flight of 45 bombers from England to California: bomber on tarmac, men welcomed by wives and families / Colonel John B. Henry speaks on tarmac / / "Washington: Wilson Meets the Press": Secretary of Defense Wilson appoints Bob Anderson deputy / Wilson speaks: sound kinetoscope / Charles Thomas replaces Anderson; Thomas speaks / / "Los Angeles: Car Gets Big Lift": rear of car suspended in air by fountain from broken hydrant / "woman driver" interviewed by police / / "Buffalo, N.Y.: Fire Wrecks Warehouse": 10-story warehouse on fire, multiple pumpers pouring water on building / / "White House": teenage 4-H club members walk past camera, are greeted by President Eisenhower in White House / Eisenhower accepts book / / "Morocco: Sultan Survives Attack": cavalry in review / sultan walks by / sentry on rooftop / assembled dignitaries / bloody survivors of hand-grenade attack / sultan drives off, followed by running subjects / / "Sports: Billy Martin Joins Army": Yankees baseball player Martin kisses family members / drives off in Cadillac / inducted, shakes hands with officer, smiles for cameras / / "The Wild West Goes to London": sign: "Bar-B-Q Ranch" / double-decker buses arrive / sign on bus: "To Texas from Piccadilly Circus" / sign: "Dismount Here"  / Texan in cowboy costume surrenders six-shooter / 1300 attend barbecue at U.S. Air Force base near London /  beef being barbecued / square dancers / / "Next Week: Another Review of the News of the Week"

Talkie interviews are wavy; I assume they're high-quality kinetoscopes