To view this video, please go to: https://youtu.be/iiZlM4utQIU. This video transfer of the "Freezing Injury" films depicts doctors working on frostbitten patients and Dr. William Mills discussing frostbite and cold injury. Dr. Mills also shows photographs of frostbitten body parts and discusses the specific of each injury, thawing of the affected body part, recovery, and potential medical difficulties. This film was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this video, please go to: https://youtu.be/FYcgkW4rVRY. In this video, Dr. Mills discusses hypothermia and immersion injury, cold injury in the form of frostbite, and a discussion for first responder and victims on immediate treatment of frostbite and hypothermia. This video contains graphic images of frostbite injuries. This film was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this video, please go to: https://youtu.be/fLWMp61fmM8. This video recording depicts a presentation on cold injury to the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle by Dr. William J. Mills in 1997. This video contains graphic images of frostbite injuries. This film was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this video, please go to: https://youtu.be/p1Dv6cnc1gQ. This is a video recording of Dr. William Mills’ lecture on cold injury treatment to what is likely a University of Alaska Anchorage School of Nursing and Health Sciences class. This video contains graphic images of frostbite injuries. This film was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this film, please go to: https://youtu.be/TupAffnthK4. These video recordings depict four Fisheries Safety and Survival Series videos regarding emergency responses to hypothermia, near drowning in cold water, sea survival and shore survival. The intended audience seem to be fishermen, and the US Coast Guard Survival School in Kodiak assisted in production. The videos are a University of Alaska Instructional Telecommunication Services production and were filmed in Kodiak, AK. This film was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this video, please go to: https://youtu.be/z1ZJJ42grGMA. This is a black and white silent motion picture video recorded by public health nurse Elinor Delight Gregg in 1936. The footage includes: a journey on the North Star through the Inland Passage; stops at Ketchikan, Wrangell, and Juneau; views of Seward, Cordova, a train in the Seward station, Mountain View, and Anchorage; a flight to Nome and its scenery; a float plane; views of interior villages (possibly Dillingham, Bethel, Kanakanak, and Unalakleet); views of hospital interiors and hospital staff; homes; boats; a garden; a fish wheel; people; home interiors; the hospital exterior; Barrow; sailors taking a sounding; women making fried bread; a kayak; an umiak; a sailboat; a surgical operation; people; various villages (possibly Point Hope, Kotzebue, and Kivalina); a cemetery; villagers killing part of the Kivalina reindeer herd; King Island; a DC-3 airplane; Fairbanks; and Tanana. This film was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this video please go to the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osrm8IMIGMw&feature=youtu.be. Title taken from title screen. Circa 1974-1979. This video depicts a presentation created by the Alaska Federation of Natives featuring Cody Bearpaw, a Cree folk singer. Bearpaw sings two songs and discusses violence at his past performances, Native identity and unification, the importance of education, and his experience in veterinarian school. This video was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this film, please go to: https://youtu.be/SnKDWWIarH4 This video presentation depicts nutritionists, community health aides, and traditional healers discussing a caribou shortage, the impact of the shortage on Alaska Native life and culture, and possible food alternatives. It was filmed in Kotzebue. The video features Della Keats, Nellie Griest (Shungnak), Rose Horner (Kobuk), Emma Ramoth (Selawik), Betsy Nobman, Lillian Johnson, Irma Hunnicutt, and Nora Booth. This video was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this video, please go to the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZulPxwP4XDU This video details the health careers available in Alaska. Careers highlighted include that of a physician, a health administrator, a medical technologist, a registered nurse, and a dental assistant. This video was digitized with support by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this film, please go to the following link: https://youtu.be/2dbvhbyNe8M. This 20-minute educational film depicts a fictional Alaska Native classroom in which two youths learn about traditional medicine, community health aides, visiting hospitals outside of the village, and the importance of going to the dentist and the optometrist.
To view this film please go to the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS4ec99hKak&t=41s. This 15-minute film was produced by the Alaska Federation of Natives' Alaska Native Health Career Program to promote health careers for Alaska Natives. Footage depicts interviews with elders explaining the need for Alaska Native health professionals and with Alaska Natives in health careers, a dramatization of a boy leaving his village to visit a hospital, and pre-medical student Henry Brown (Mountain Village) conducting health examinations in Yup'ik and visiting a cemetery. This film was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this film, please go to the following link: https://youtu.be/FF6lQNrpkw8. This 3-minute silent film depicts a helicopter landing at a camp on Mt. McKinley (Denali). People are seen loading supplies onto it before it takes off again. This film was digitized with support by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To listen to this recording, please go to the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUrotTJkfio. Title taken from audiocassette label. Undated. This is an audiocassette recording of a woman giving English translations of Inupiaq terms for emotional and physical states and key verbs. This audiocassette was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To listen to this audio, please go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q37zcu5kZ1A. Title created by describer. 2003 September. This is an audiocassette recording of a dictated speech given in absentia by Dr. William J. Mills Jr. after receiving the Jack Hildes Award during the 12th International Congress for Circumpolar Health in Nuuk, Greenland. Topics discussed include: Dr. Mills' military career, the residual problems of cold injuries, and cold injury treatment. The end of the recording contains a conversation between an unidentified man and woman discussing their trip to Alaska. This audiocassette was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To watch this program please follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkaNhVGSMQ This television program, produced by the American Medical Association and Smith Kline & French Laboratories, depicts a U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Bethel, Dr George Wegman[?] giving medical advice to remote communities over radio, the village of Nightmute, the story of a young boy Paul Tamugiak [?] as he comes to Bethel for an orthopedic evaluation, and Dr. William Mills seeing orthopedic patients in Bethel. The program then visits Lansdale, Pennsylvania and Dr. David Moyer as he consults with patients at his office. He stops at a pharmacy and then visits patients. The program then visits Dr. Julius Fernandez[?] as he cares for a pregnant woman at a hospital in Franklin, Louisiana.
This film was digitized with support by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this film, please go to the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IZoSGrLGC4. This 5-minute silent film depicts a man in an Air Force uniform fitting a test dummy with vapor barrier [bunny] boots labeled "Arctic Aeromedical Research Lab." The dummy is then placed in a plane crash simulator, ejected into the air, and crash-landed using a parachute. This film was digitized with support by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this film, please go to the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNoRrfi7JYU. This 6-minute silent film depicts a man in an Air Force uniform fitting a test dummy with warm socks and boots labeled "Arctic Aeromedical Research Lab." The dummy is then placed in a plane crash simulator, ejected into the air, and crash-landed using a parachute. This film was digitized with support by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To view this film, please go to the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWJyhIyk1k8. This 6-minute silent film footage depicts four men collecting firewood, building a bonfire, and building snow huts on a frozen lake in a forest. They are likely participating in research with the Arctic Aeromedical Research Laboratory. This film was digitized with support by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To listen to this audio, please go to the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Iod4R5q54. Title taken from beginning of recording. 1955 November. This is a dictabelt audio recording of Dr. Walter Johnson describing a trip to the Lower Yukon region. Topics discussed include: Lower Yukon residents' eagerness to see a doctor, Father Segundo Llorente, alcoholism, the death and birth rates of the region, the prevalence of a reliance on welfare, and the weather. Recording skips occasionally. This dictabelt was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
To listen to this audio, please go to the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrPMTU-omUM. Title taken from beginning of recording. 1955 October. This is a dictabelt audio recording of Dr. Walter Johnson describing a trip to Chevak. Topics discussed include: Jimmix Samuelson, interpreting at health clinics, difficult dental extractions without anesthesia, the dentist Mike Nayheak, a square dance, Father Wood, the temperament of the Chevak village, the high rate of fathers in tuberculosis sanatoriums, a new kasidak, health conditions in Chevak, the need for new housing, and an emergency landing in a creek near Chevak. Recording skips occasionally. This dictabelt was digitized by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
