Snowy travel in Alaska, 1950s

Alaska artist and filmmaker Fred Machetanz and his wife, author Sara Machetanz, travel in their car along narrow, snowy roads from their log home to nearby Palmer, Alaska, during winter in the late 1950s. This scene was filmed to demonstrate a typical Alaskan wintertime experience, so that it could be shown to audiences in the Lower 48. The Machetanz films were some of the earliest films collected by the University of Alaska Fairbanks for preservation purposes. This film has recently been scanned in high definition by the Alaska Film Archives at UAF, and the original 16mm film print is being preserved in a specialized climate-controlled film vault housed inside the Rasmuson Library at UAF (Color/Silent/16mm film).

This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-1091 from the Machetanz collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.

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