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Oyster Queen Crowned; Girl Scout Leaves for Switzerland

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.
Original NID
227133
Location
M7A Box 4 85E/97E
Year or Date Range
'7-9-1969'
Producer
KOBI
Film Length
'00:01:47'
Color
Black & White
Internal Link
SOHS Film 1561 7-9-1969 Oyster Queen Crowned; Girl Scout Leaves for Switzerland