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With the volcano in the news and the 30th anniversary of Mount St. Helens, I thought this topical.

Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Division of State and Private Forestry. Fire and Aviation Management Staff. (1986)

ARC Identifier 13504 / Local Identifier 95.206 1984

This place in time: The Mount St. Helens story

Recounts through reenactments, personal recollections, and documentary narration, the earth-changing event and aftermath of the May 18, 1980, volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest of southwest Washington. The film represents the work of dozens of both professional and amateur cinematographers and still-photographers. The film leaves the viewer with a positive feeling that the devastated area will someday be beautiful again during the course of the earth-shattering and earth-healing process.

If you can get past the fashion aspect, there’s some good vintage plane shots and some good aerial views. Southwestern US travelogue flies around in modern 1930s airplanes, stopping off at Albuquerque and an Arizona dude ranch, all the time focusing on fashions worn by its cargo of aspiring Paramount starlets. Excellent pre-World War II fashion footage in Kodachrome, plus documentation of affluent tourist destinations. Produced and directed by Harry D. Donahue. With Mary Martin.

Clearing out more old footage. Typical hazy summer day in 1998. Obviously sped up…

Clearing out old footage. I was going to delete this one, but thought some of you would like to see the runway, island and some planes. This was taken from one of the famous Hong Kong mini-buses. Gives you a good feel for how long a runway is too.

A vintage film for children showing how rapidly the world is shrinking around them. A history of transportation up to 1946. Covers transportation and communications up to 1829 with the steam train and then 1903 with the airplane up through the air age into the jet age up to 1946. Contains some brief views of planes interspersed with history.

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