Alaska Film Archives - UAF | Lower Kuskokwim videos, circa 1980s @alaskafilmarchives | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
The Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks is honored to present this handful of clips selected from 150 recently-digitized historical videotapes. These videos were originally recorded in the Lower Kuskokwim River region of southwest Alaska by community members and by students and faculty of the Lower Kuskokwim School District. Scenes include basket weavers, Yup'ik language instructor Betty Huffman, Yup'ik dancers, and the communities of Eek, Goodnews Bay and Kipnik, Alaska (Color/B&W/Sound/Silent/Umatic videotape).
Thanks to funding from the Rasmuson Rare Books Endowment, the Alaska Film Archives was able to digitize, preserve and make accessible almost 75 hours of one-of-a-kind footage from the Lower Kuskokwim School District Collection. Most of the recordings were made during the 1980s, with a few from the 1990s. Videos cover activities throughout southwest Alaska, including Bethel, Kilbuck, Newtok, Kipnuk, Hooper Bay, Goodnews Bay and Mekoryuk, among other communities. These invaluable recordings were made during a time when videotape technology was beginning to come into wide use, and when students and local community members were just beginning to have broad access to technologies allowing them to tell and share their own stories via video. Topics include sled building, Alaska Native dances, Yup'ik songs, story telling, school activities, sports, language instruction and community theater. These videos capture the sights and sounds of the region during a dynamic period of cultural and language revitalization.
Original obsolete videotapes were digitized by Scene Savers of Kentucky. Clips in this montage are from AAF-11739, AAF-11668, AAF-11649, AAF-11638, AAF-11644 and AAF-11643. For more information about these and other videos in the collection, please contact the Alaska Film Archives, which is a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
The Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks is honored to present this handful of clips selected from 150 recently-digitized historical videotapes. These videos were originally recorded in the Lower Kuskokwim River region of southwest Alaska by community members and by students and faculty of the Lower Kuskokwim School District. Scenes include basket weavers, Yup'ik language instructor Betty Huffman, Yup'ik dancers, and the communities of Eek, Goodnews Bay and Kipnik, Alaska (Color/B&W/Sound/Silent/Umatic videotape).
Thanks to funding from the Rasmuson Rare Books Endowment, the Alaska Film Archives was able to digitize, preserve and make accessible almost 75 hours of one-of-a-kind footage from the Lower Kuskokwim School District Collection. Most of the recordings were made during the 1980s, with a few from the 1990s. Videos cover activities throughout southwest Alaska, including Bethel, Kilbuck, Newtok, Kipnuk, Hooper Bay, Goodnews Bay and Mekoryuk, among other communities. These invaluable recordings were made during a time when videotape technology was beginning to come into wide use, and when students and local community members were just beginning to have broad access to technologies allowing them to tell and share their own stories via video. Topics include sled building, Alaska Native dances, Yup'ik songs, story telling, school activities, sports, language instruction and community theater. These videos capture the sights and sounds of the region during a dynamic period of cultural and language revitalization.
Original obsolete videotapes were digitized by Scene Savers of Kentucky. Clips in this montage are from AAF-11739, AAF-11668, AAF-11649, AAF-11638, AAF-11644 and AAF-11643. For more information about these and other videos in the collection, please contact the Alaska Film Archives, which is a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The Alaska Film Archives appreciates your support. Your donation in any amount will help us continue important preservation work. Please visit the “About” section of our YouTube channel to learn how you can help today. Thank you! For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.
