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VC and DVD Viewing Copies- Reference Desk List
Collection Name / Title on Viewing Copy/Description / Access Copy # / LocationNote: VIEWING COPIES ARE LOCATED ON SHELVES N51-N54 IN THE PROCESSING AREA and, with a few exceptions, are access copies created from videotape transfers of original 16mm, 8mm and Super 8mm film, as well as from obsolete video formats like 1”, 2” and reel-to-reel videotape. The viewing copies are available for viewing in the reference area. There is a sign out sheet located with the videotapes. Contact Nicolette Bromberg or Hannah Palin for further information or questions regarding these materials.
Albert S. Kerry Home Movies / Local/Seattle ca. 1920s/30s—includes Kerry/Trimble wedding 5/11/1932, touring Italy, and Aurora Bridge under construction (nearly completed).1 hour 6 minutes, silent / VC1 / N51
Albert S. Kerry Home Movies / Travels Abroad ca. 1920s/30s—“September 10, 1927, Leviathan leaving New York with loyal legionaires [sic] escorted by destroyers, dirigible balloons and aeroplanes”; also footage of New York skyline, London, Wales, Scotland, [Fr.?]Riviera.53 minutes, silent / VC1.1 / N51
Albert S. Kerry Home Movies / Alaska ca. 1930s—includes July 4th Party in the Highlands (Glen Kerry), people on glaciers, fishing harbor (Valdez?), Tent camp in bush, party visits McKinley Park, Nenana Station (train), Parsons Hotel, Matanuska Valley, loading boats on dock (cannery?), Sitka (?).1 hours 17 minutes, silent / VC2 / N51
Washington Highways / Programs 2&3 (Parts 2 and 3 of 4-part program aired on KCTS), 1957: Local TV film looks at designing the highway system, traffic impact.61 minutes / VC3 / N51
William F. Thompson / Weirs, Fisheries, B. C. Rivers, 1936-1940 Compilation of shots of weirs, dams and netting on British Columbia Rivers, esp. beautiful wooden dam and bridge, "Dam at the Outlet of Adams Lake."41 minutes, silent / VC4 / N51
William S. Lagen / Home Movies, 1925-1962, Tape One William Schupp Lagen--July 25 1925 celebrates his second birthday at Bellevue, W[ashingto]n. With “Daddad”[William Schupp] - Taunte - Luella - Mamma - Ida – Dodo[Dorothy Schupp]. Also many other family events.1 hour 55 minutes, silent / VC5 / N51
William S. Lagen / Home Movies, 1925-1962, Tape Two 10/10/1952--Aircraft Carrier: [USS] FDR, Marc playing with Emily and Shannon (Marc looks about 4). ca. 1962--wedding, indoors, W[illiam] S[chupp] L[agen] and new wife, eating cake, toasting, holding Debbie on lap, children (Debbie and Marc and younger boy) with Emily, as couple drives away. 1 hour 53 minutes, silent / VC6 / N51
William S. Lagen / Home Movies, 1925-1962, Tape Three, ca. 1950s--Kids parade through town (Oak Harbor), including drill team and doll parade; men in old time police uniforms carrying town drunk (staged), jalopy, people building float on farm (Whidbey--Griffiths?), Adult parade with navy men marching, floats in parade; fishing boats and powerboats racing [Alaska?]. 26 minutes, silent / VC7 / N51
Bob Wafenschmidt / Western US, Canada, Yakima ca. 1932-1939 “Oregon Coast Trip 1934, Columbia River Highway, Wakeena Falls,” car ferry w/ 3-man crew, “Old Ironsides visits Seattle [1933]”1 hour 31 minutes, silent / VC8 / N51
Bob Wafenschmidt / Personal Films ca. 1932-1940 "Manzanita Lake, elev. 5845" (Shasta County California). "Chaos Jumbles" lava area (near Lassen peak), "Summit Lake", cinder cone, “Frying Pan Creek”[Mt. Rainier], bridge, mountains, highway, “Yakima Park”[Rainier], fishing, cabins, ski area, “Shadow Lake”[Rainier], falls, mountain vistas.1 hour 22 minutes, silent / VC9 / N51
Bob Wafenschmidt / Personal Films ca. 1931-1940 Snowy mountains, "Summit McKenzie Pass, elev. 5325" [Oregon, U.S. Highway 28], Packing the “Worlds Biggest Box of Apples”: people in costume on ladders, apples being handed up ladder and placed in box, many happy men and women, speedboats racing (Chelan?).42 minutes, silent / VC10.1 / N51
Burke Associates I-90 Urban Design Film / The Highway and the People I-90 Urban Design Promo Film ca. 1969 Aerial Views of I-90 corridor and Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Freeways, Central Area and Rainier Valley neighborhoods, and Construction. Voice-over narration describes the projected growth east of Lake Washington and outlines the Seattle Comprehensive Plan which includes the completion of Interstate 90 (with rapid transit).21 minutes / VC10.2 / N51
Priest Rapids Dam Concrete Pouring Ceremony Film / Priest Rapids Dam Concrete Pouring Ceremony: [Henry] Jackson, [Albert] Rosellini, Concrete Pouring and Speeches April 25,1957 Rosellini, [Warren] Magnuson & Jackson [at] Priest Rapids Dam--Sparse narration, introduces the concrete bucket being poured. 15 minutes / VC10.3 / N51
U.W. Audio Visual Services Materials Library / General Engineering Strength of Materials ca. June 1957 Engineering stress tests on wood beams, metal rods, carbon, measuring, dials, gauges, presses, melting. Engineers marking stress points on 12 x 12 beam, teaching, students taking notes.10 minutes, silent / VC10.4 / N51
U.W. Audio Visual Services Materials Library / The Slide Rule, Proportions, Percentages, Squares & Square Roots U.S. Office of Education 1944 Produced by Division of Visual Aids, Federal Security Agency Animation of how to use slide rule, voice over narration. / VC10.5 / N51
Evergreen Empire Film / Evergreen Empire 1939, 20th Century Fox/Magic Carpet of Movietone--Seattle, Mt. Rainier with bathing beauties skiing. Promotional film for Washington State featuring Mt. Rainier, Logging, Fisheries, High Country horse trip.10.5 minutes / VC11 / N51
Fighting Ships for Fighting Men Film / Fighting Ships for Fighting Men Todd Shipyard, 1943 Directed by Helmer Stubbs, Industrial Film of Shipbuilding during WWII, men and women working, ship christening, and maiden launch ceremony--credits say narration and organ but this has no sound.30 minutes, silent / VC12 / N51
U.W. Audio Visual Services Materials Library / Opening Day Regatta Seattle 1950 5/6/1950--Opening Day celebration of Seattle Boating Season. Segment of Boat Parade through Montlake Cut; Regatta on Lake Washington, many yacht owners mentioned as they go by in the Parade: Boeing, Marriott, Dolph Zubick are a few. 23 minutes / VC13 / N51
Lee Swanson / Salmon from Catch to Can (1965?) Presented by The United States Department of the Interior in cooperation with the Canned Salmon Institute. Shots of Alaska Bay--Fish in Wild, Hatchery, fishing boat, canning process, at home--opening can, array of dishes prepared with salmon, cookbook and address to send for cookbook.14 minutes / VC14 / N51
Lee Swanson / Spotlight on Alaska ca. 1930s Matanuska Valley, Taku Harbor--Includes Father Hubbard and guide with packs, on boat, camping, hiking glacier, glaciers calving.33 minutes / VC14.2 / N51
Lee Swanson / Amateur Film/Libby Cannery Camp, Alaska 1947 [Home movies from unknown cannery employee] Pacific Northern Airlines plane landing, film from plane of mountains and shoreline, camp activities, baseball, Filipinos, native children in fur, Philippine Independence Day party--banner reads "July 4, 1947.” Libby, McNeill & Libby No.8 TL 45-238--"Iron Chink" salmon cleaning machine, harbor, hosing roof, ice floes. 1 hour 24 minutes, silent / VC14.3 / N51
UW Intercollegiate Athletics Department / Football Washington vs. UCLA 10/4/1952 47 minutes, silent / VC15 / N51
UW Intercollegiate Athletics Department / Basketball Washington vs. California 12/14/1951 33 minutes, silent / VC 16 / N51
UW Intercollegiate Athletics Department / Football Washington vs. Illinois 1951 38 minutes, silent / VC 17 / N51
President Truman in Olympia, Washington and Picnic at Playland Film / President Truman at WA State Capitol Reviewing 2nd Infantry State Patrol 1946, Picnic at Playland (1940?)
ca. 1940-45--President Truman visiting Olympia Capitol Grounds (while vacationing in WA in 1945?), reviewing troops from 2nd Div Army; State Patrol Detail; Truman signing something at table with others, looking at photos; 2nd Infantry Band playing, marching through grounds; shots of grounds and capitol steps. Also State Patrol picnic at Playland (amusement park on 130th/Aurora 1930-61, see HistoryLink.com), shots of SP cars parked, shots of school buses from Kent, Highline, Shoreline; shots of amusement park.18 minutes, silent / VC18 / N51
Richard J. Blandau / Ovulation and Egg Transport in the Mammal 1972 15 minutes, silent / VC19 / N51
U.W. Audio Visual Services Materials Library / Cable Spinning Tacoma Narrows Bridge--Voice-over narration, images of opening of new bridge October 14, 1950; Governor Arthur B. Langlie officiating; voice explains suspension bridge physics, principle behind the cables, working model of the cable laying.22 minutes / VC 20 / N51
James Sneddon / A Foot in Both Worlds, Master’s Thesis Project, 1970 Documentary about a group of Alaska natives learning to navigate in the urban environment of Seattle —shopping in the supermarket, clothes shopping at the Bon Marche, riding the bus, downtown, in a courtroom, at the Pike Place Market, at the Museum of History and Industry, at the Fish Terminal, in a car at night in freeway traffic, living in apartments .Seattle Orientation Center Program run through the Bureau of Indian Affairs.45 minutes / VC21 / N51
Henry L. Higman / Union Bay Marsh, Birds, Flowers, Wildlife, 1935-1945 Shots of terns, ducks, mud hens, other shore birds, several shots from canoe, including white goose flying E to W showing the Field House, Montlake and UW campus beyond, and the first recorded appearance in the U. marsh of Franklin’s Gull.1 hour 51 minutes, silent / VC22 / N52
Unknown [Alexander Baird] / Unknown (Baird?), Northwest Film Part I, 1956 Downtown Seattle, Frederick & Nelson, traffic, Foreman & Clark, Woodland Park Zoo, Snoqualmie Falls, UW Arboretum, Volunteer Park Reservoir, Fisherman's Terminal, Seafair Grand Parade Chinese dragon dance; University District Seafair Parade, KING Float with Wunda Wunda/Stan Boreson. 1 hour 20 minutes, silent / VC 23 / N52
Unknown [Alexander Baird] / Unknown (Alexander Baird?), 1956 Gold Cup Seafair Hydroplane races, Blue Angels, Lake Chelan (touring, camping), Mount Rainier, Chief Joseph Dam, Grand Coulee w/kids, Lambert Garden, Mt. Hood Lodge, Snake River Canyon, Walla Walla, McNary Dam, Multnomah Falls. Vacation 1960--Travel to Orcas Island [shots are from ferry], Canada, Indians, Banff, Lake Louise, Columbia Glacier. Vacation 1959--Astoria, Olympics, Oregon Coast, Redwoods, Crater Lake, Three Sisters, Lake Scott, The Chasm. 53.5 minutes, silent / VC 24.1 / N52
U.W. Audio Visual Services Materials Library / Volunteer Park Study 1955[?] and Traffic Stock Shots 1958, Volunteer Park: front of museum w/cars parked, Seward statue, front of Volunteer Park Conservatory with children going in. Also footage of driving along NE 45th St. over to Sand Point Way; 25th Ave, to Montlake. 8 minutes, silent / VC 24.2 / N52
U.W. Audio Visual Services Materials Library / Miscellaneous Clips: Aurora Tunnel, Mercer Island Bridge, Waterfront, Ships, Fishing, Highway, Bridge, Tunnel Scenes, Aurora Avenue, Alaskan Way Viaduct, Floating Bridge, Battery Street Tunnel, Mercer Island Tunnel.7 minutes, silent / VC 24.3 / N52
U.W. Audio Visual Services. Materials Library / Mrs. Hazard’s House, Educational Film, Prudential Insurance Company, 1954 Public service film teaching parents how to make their home safe for children, and citing statistics about accidents that kill children in the home. Semi-animated sequence of children's book "Hazard House" showing dangers to children. Insurance man joined by Dr. Henry F. Dietrich who is an “authority on child accident problems.”13 minutes / VC 24.4 / N52
University of Washington Stock Film Collection, 1940s-1960s / University of Washington Historical Footage, Tape One Construction of General Engineering Bldg [Sieg Hall] (ca. 1959). UW Campus Life: scenes of campus, 1941, UW Campus Life: Governor's Day 1951, UW Campus Life: Water Activities, JFK at UW, Scenes of campus, ca. 1940s.2 hours 5 minutes, silent / VC 25
DVD25 / N52
University of Washington Stock Film Collection, 1940s-1960s / University of Washington Historical Footage, Tape Two
Scenes of UW campus and campus life (including Friday Harbor and Union Bay Village) from ca. 1940-61, and some scenes of Seattle, also penguin test. Includes: "Washington Public Opinion Laboratory" (1948); Seattle and UW from air; filmed from a WWII bomber (1947), Union Bay Village promotional piece. 1 hour 47 minutes, silent / VC 26 DVD26 / N52
University of Washington Audio Visual Services Materials Library / University Conversation #15, Dr. Max Savelle 30 minutes / DVD27 / N52
Buschmann Family / Buschmann Family History Selections from complete home movie collection which includes trips to Alaska 1927-1941. Also Family Trips in Western states 1928-1941, baby pictures and the Buschmann Family. 1 hour 27 minutes, silent / VC 28 / N52
Mike Koehler / Construction of Coulee Dam, ca. 1935-1939, Reel 1 Includes FDR footage--home movie/amateur footage documenting the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam. Color footage is of opening of the dam with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt driving through the town and townspeople on the street. Silent film includes shots of men operating equipment, surveying, drilling, cutting large stone blocks, guiding massive sections of metal framing and concrete into place, earth moving, heavy machinery, men working/at rest 19 minutes, silent / VC 29 / N52
Mike Koehler / Construction of Coulee Dam, ca. 1935-1939, Reels 2 & 3 [Description same as above]13 minutes, silent / VC 30 / N52
Carl Gould / Carl Gould Family Portraits, Ca. 1925-1929, 1940s-1950s Family activities in New York City Area in and around house & talk on Captain Cook, NW history given in late ‘40s-early ‘50s.50 minutes, silent / VC 31 / N52
Emma Baillargeon Stimson / C.D. Stimson Co. Archival Footage Cassette 1 Ca. 1916-1924, 1963 9/1963--KING's Community Workshop--A Tribute to Mrs. Thomas D. Stimson. Also Stimson Home Movies ca. 1916-1924. [Footage in Reel 4 of the Highlands Picnic corresponds with footage in the Albert S. Kerry Collection of a picnic.] 90 minutes, silent / VC 32 / N52
Emma Baillargeon Stimson / C.D. Stimson Co., Archival Footage, Cassette 2 Ca. 1925-1937 Stimson Home Movies--[Franklin Delano] Roosevelt at Coulee Dam [probably at ceremony marking pouring of the first concrete, October 1937, when Roosevelt visited Grand Coulee.] Also birthday party, boating, Garden Club of America lunch, skiing near Mount Rainier, Robert Brinkley Air Flight to Spokane Wash. April 25, 1931, children dance around a Maypole. [Most of Reel 1 is on VC 33, continues onto VC 34. Reel 2 is on VC 34.]1 hour 32 minutes, silent / VC 33 / N52
Emma Baillargeon Stimson / C.D. Stimson Co., Archival Footage, Cassette 3 Ca. 1930-1940 Stimson Home Movies--Croquet on front lawn, Christmas at Norcliffe 1936, women skiing by building, group skiing. [Reel 1 is on VC 34. Reel 2 is on VC 35.] 53 minutes, silent / VC 34 / N52
Emma Baillargeon Stimson / C.D. Stimson Co., Archival Footage, Cassette 4 Ca. 1929-1942 Stimson Home Movies--Overseas trips, Skiing at Rainier 1938, Lake Placid 1938-1939, Trip to California 1939, Crater Lake Yosemite, Nona and Doug Sailing, The Highlands, April 1941, Family at home, Lazy V Ranch Montana June 1942. [Reel 1 is on VC 34. Reel 2 is on VC 35.]90 minutes / VC 35 / N52
Joel Wolff / Washington State Jewish Community, Aberdeen, Washington, ca. 1926 Legion parade/Purim play/laying cornerstone--Temple Beth Israel, Aberdeen--Chehalis Temple. 10 minutes, silent / VC 36 / N52
Elmer Ogawa / Home Movies, 1930s Eastern US only 1936-37, including several NY addresses, vacation footage, Canada, Cleveland 1936 Expo. 2 hours 18 minutes, silent / VC 37 / N52
UW Forest Resources College / Let’s Plant Acacia (1959, Korean Language Print)produced by the US Dept. of Agriculture to encourage Korean villagers to plant acacia. It provides detailed information re: planting and maintaining of the plants and also its advantages, Village Forestry in Korea (n.d.) (Korean Language Print) U.S. Korean Cooperation produced for Department of Agriculture with general information regarding village forestry, and the government's efforts at reforestation. 32 minutes / VC 38 / N52
UW Communications School / This Is Your Life, ca. 1958, a parody of the real television program interspersed with real and fake commercials, and Rendezvous, ca. 1958, a fake travel show, was produced by students from Professor Milo Ryan's Communications course at the University of Washington31 minutes / VC39 / N52
UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library / “Weird Science” Collection #1 ca. 1950s-60s A selection of films from the UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library Film Collection including: Art School; Premajor-Moment of Discovery; Four Clips: Salmon Research, Nuclear Medicine, Penguins, House My People; Development PSA; Prisoner Release; Psychology Experiment; Sickle Cell; Ceramic Implants; Wheelchair; Arson; Noise Pollution; Baby Vision; Neah Bay; Plaque Removal; Cedar River; Heart Watch; Black Slang; Report to Parents; Campus Aerials; Duwamish; Fern Lake 1967; Blue Glacier.2 hours 2 minutes, most films are silent / VC 40 / N52
UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library / “Weird Science” Collection #2, ca. 1950s-1960s A selection of films from the UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library Film Collection including : Carver Gayton; Big Beef Creek; Praczukowski; Chapple; Moon Mapping 28 minutes, most films are silent / VC 41 / N52
UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library / A Collection of Books, ca. 1963. Young woman walking to library, looking up a book, finding books in the stacks, sitting at a table, looking up books in the "location file." Going up in the elevator to the Periodical Room to the Microcopy Center, reading the New York Times, making copies. Young man typing. Group meeting in a conference room. Young woman walks by study carols. Students studying and Electrical Engineering, ca. 1960s, a plea for more women to join the engineering profession. 10 minutes / VC 42 / N52
UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library / Mission Impractical, a spoof on the television program, Mission Impossible that appears to be part of a presentation and Christmas 1958, a home movie by John Sneddon 12 minutes, silent / VC 43 / N52
Engineering Experiment Station / Opening Day of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Inspecting Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse and News of the Day, Collapse of the Tacoma Bridge 12 minutes / VC 44 / N52
Seattle Urban League / People at Work, 1966, features African Americans in a variety of work situations. Mayor Braman Membership Appeal, 1967, Construction Workers, White Wash, ca. 1969, Say It Loud I’m Black and I’m Proud, ca. 1970, are public service announcements commissioned by the Urban League. Report: 1969covers important Seattle Urban League issues in 1969 including the assassination of Edwin Pratt, construction site and campus protests, presentation of first Edwin T. Pratt award to Tyree Scott, discussions about housing, jobs, Urban League projects. 45 minutes / VC 45
DVD45 / N52
President Kennedy Speaks at Hanford Film / President John F. Kennedy Speaks at Hanford, September 26, 1963Planning activities prior to the visit of President John F. Kennedy to the groundbreaking ceremony for the N-Reactor at the Hanford Nuclear Site. Kennedy and other dignitaries give speeches. Kennedy initiates groundbreaking with a uranium-tipped wand.31 minutes / VC 46 / N52
US Plywood Collection / Patterns of Time and Success Story ca. 1967[POT] and 1957 [SS] [POT]--Rod Serling narrates the film about paneling and plywood, and closes the film by saying, "As man ventures into the regions of space, he knows that he can always return to the comfort of his own natural world. Through careful management and programs of reforestation, he will always have an abundance of fine hardwood here on earth, whatever awaits us in the limitless world beyond." [SS]--A kinescope of a locally produced television show sponsored by Richfield Oil.42 minutes / VC 47 / N52