Alaska Film Archives - UAF | Seward in winter, 1940s @alaskafilmarchives | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Scenes of Seward, Alaska, on a bright winter's day during the 1940s.This film is among several that were made by Virginia Phyllis (Burkholder) Bennett (1916-2005), during the WWII era when she served with the United Service Organizations (USO) in Alaska, primarily at Fairbanks and Seward. The filmmaker herself appears in this clip wearing a red dress and walking up a snowy path. Later in the clip, she climbs into the passenger's side of a car (Color/Silent/16mm film).
This clip is from AAF-23396 of the Virginia Phyllis (Burkholder) Bennett 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.
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.
Scenes of Seward, Alaska, on a bright winter's day during the 1940s.This film is among several that were made by Virginia Phyllis (Burkholder) Bennett (1916-2005), during the WWII era when she served with the United Service Organizations (USO) in Alaska, primarily at Fairbanks and Seward. The filmmaker herself appears in this clip wearing a red dress and walking up a snowy path. Later in the clip, she climbs into the passenger's side of a car (Color/Silent/16mm film).
This clip is from AAF-23396 of the Virginia Phyllis (Burkholder) Bennett 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.
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.
