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Alaska '35

In 1935, scientist and filmmaker William O. Field documented the work of newly arriving Matanuska Valley Colony farmers in Alaska. These farmers and their families had relocated from the Midwest of the United States to the Matanuska Valley/Palmer area of Alaska as part of a New Deal resettlement plan. The colony was settled by about 200 families seeking relief from the hardships of the Great Depression. Field's film contains scenes of early Alaska Railroad steam engines at work, farmers and their families at work and play, colonists building and moving into houses, and farm machinery ranging from horse drawn wagons to Caterpillar tractors and threshing machines. (B&W/Silent/35mm film). In 2016, this film was preserved through funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF). Reflex Technologies of Burbank, California, scanned the film and created digital DPX files, which were then output to new 35mm dupe negative and answer print films by Video & Film Solutions of Rockville, Maryland. The original safety print film, new dupe negative and answer print films, and digital files are all being preserved by the Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks. This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-21002 from the William O. Field Papers 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.