KOAC-TV Films (P 207)

1947-1975
8.5 cubic feet; 96 reels

Scope and Content Note

This group consists of films produced by or for KOAC-TV or kinescope films of KOAC-TV broadcasts. Most of the films are from three television series: In Our Care, With Her Own Wings, and the Great Decisions Program. The group also includes films produced for the Colleges for Oregon's Future program, television broadcasts from the Oregon State Fair in Salem, and men's basketball games. Other notable films show the Klamath Falls and Warm Springs Indians; the dedication of Gill Coliseum; and the 1964 commencement ceremony.

Forms

The films are 16 mm; both b/w and color. For some films, both a negative and print are included; but there are several negatives without accompanying prints. The groups also includes many kinescope films (motion picture films made from an image on a picture tube).

Organization and Arrangement

Some of the films have been assigned individual numbers (P207:1-16). However, most of the films have been described as groups by the primary subject or the television series for which they were made; these groups are Men's Basketball; State Fair; Great Decisions Program; With Her Own Wings; and In Our Care. There are also 4 unidentified films in the group that have not been assigned individual numbers.

Provenance

The films were transfered to the Archives in 1988 from the former KOAC-TV studios on the Oregon State University campus.

Historical Note

KOAC-TV was established in 1957. It was administered by the Oregon State System of Higher Education's General Extension Division as part of the Department of Educational Media until the early 1980s when administration was transferred to what is now known as Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Beginning in 1957, KOAC-TV produced and broadcast several films for Great Decisions, a community program offered by the Extension Service and the Foreign Policy Association that was aimed at building informed public opinion on foreign policy.

Under contract with the Oregon Centennial Commission, KOAC produced a school series on Oregon history, "With Her On Wings" in 1959 and distributed kinescope films of the series to Oregon schools through the Department of Visual Instruction.

The "In Our Care" series, sponsored by the Oregon State Board of Control and produced by KOAC in 1959-1960, documented Oregon's prisons, hospitals, and schools for the handicapped and delinquent. Photographer Bill Rush filmed and Bob Richter produced and directed the series.

Related Materials

An audiotape that accompanies the "In Our Care" program series is a part of the KOAC Records (RG 15). The Archives holdings also include films of KOAC-TV classroom television broacasts (P205 - Chemistry Department and P119 - Communication Media Center). Brochures listing programs broadcast by KOAC-TV are available in the Memorabilia Collection (MC-KOAC-TV Programs). Information about the Great Decisions program is a part of the Extension Service Records (RG 111).

Shelf Locations

SR 6/10/1; SR 6/9/3/10-60; SR 6/9/4/10-20

Inventory

(shelf SR 6/10/1)

• 1 Klamath Falls Indian Film; color, silent; made in 1973-74

(SR 6/9/3/10)

• 2 This Land was Theirs, 1971; color
• 3 Cinemex Warm Springs; A-roll; color
• 4 American Indian Art; b/w
• 5 The Man Who Made the Plays, May 1975; color?
• 6 Pentacle Theater, Aug. 1963; b/w neg.
• 7 Law for Laymen; b/w neg.
• 8 Otter Crest and Otter Rock, ca. 1960; b/w (6 reels)
• 9 Computer (mainframe), ca. 1960; b/w
• 10 Gill Coliseum Dedication, ca. 1950; b/w
• 11 Gill Coliseum Exterior; b/w
• 12 Commencement, 1964; with sound
• 13 Date Line - Statehouse (Richter); b/w neg.
• 14 Date Line - Colleges for Oregon's Future; neg.
• 15 Bond Measure, Dr. (Leonard W.?) Rice; b/w; public service announcement (?); (6 reels)
• 16 Tax Referendum with Chancellor P.E. Lieuallen, OSU President J.H. Jensen, University of Oregon Pres. A.E. Flemming, and Leonard W. Rice; original b/w

(SR 6/9/3/20)

• Unidentified ca. 1960s through early 1970s; b/w (4 reels)
• Men's Basketball Unidentified games from 1947 through 1960s; studio interview with Paul Valenti; b/w (6 reels)
• State Fair Films of KOAC-TV broadcasts from the Oregon State Fair in Salem; 1959, 1962, and undated; b/w (8 reels)

(SR 6/9/3/30)

• Great Decisions Program, 1957 Filmed portions of four KOAC-TV telecasts of the Great Decisions Program, 1957; two of the programs are on the Middle East, one pertains to U.S. policy for Europe and Germany, and a fourth is titled "What Challenges, Opportunities for the U.S. in 1958?"; for several of the programs, the speaker is Clifford Miller of Southern Oregon College; b/w (4 reels).
• With Her Own Wings, 1959 and 1964 b/w prints and negatives (18 reels) Program titles:
  • 1 Oregon Origins; neg.
  • 2 Setting the Stage; neg.
  • 3 Oregon's First Residents; neg. and print
  • 4 They Came by Sea; neg.
  • 5 Overland to the Pacific; neg. and print

(SR 6/9/3/40)

• 7 Missionaries Carried the Word; neg. and print.
• 8 Old Oregon Trail; neg.
• 9 Home Life of a Pioneer; neg.
• 10 Oregon's Need for Government; neg. and print

(SR 6/9/3/50)

• 11 Oregon Joins the Union; neg. and print (Mini-DV and Betacam SP duplication masters available)
• 12 Stagecoach Lore; neg.
• 13 Gold - The Rush is On; neg.
• 14 Oregon or Bust; neg.

(SR 6/9/3/60; SR 6/9/4/10-20; 2 cans on SR 6/10/1)

• In Our Care, 1959 b/w and color; negative and print; includes some kinescope negatives and prints (35 reels); includes footage of the following institutions:
  • Oregon State Hospital
  • Oregon Fairview Home [Mini-DV duplication master and VHS use copy available]
  • Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital [Mini-DV duplication master and DVD use copy available]
  • Oregon State Penitentiary
  • Oregon State Correctional Institution
  • MacLaren School for Boys [Mini-DV duplication master and DVD use copy available]
  • Hillcrest School for Girls
  • Oregon State School for the Deaf
  • Oregon State School for the Blind
  • Eastern Oregon State Hospital
  • Mid-Columbia Home

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