Steve McCutcheon collection, 1946-1978 [motion picture]

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Steve McCutcheon collection, 1946-1978 [motion picture]

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The collection consists of 275 reels of color and black & white motion picture film, some silent and some with sound. 271 of these predominantly consist of raw, unedited motion picture footage, most of which is silent and in color, produced by Steve McCutcheon, a freelance photographer and cinematographer. Alaska film locations include Anchorage, Anaktuvuk Pass, Bristol Bay, Brooks Range, Cordova, Denali, Fairbanks, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Nome, Palmer, Sitka, St. Lawrence Island, and the Wrangell Mountains. Subjects include the 1955-1956 Alaska Constitutional Convention, various local community events, dogsledding, hunting, fishing, oil exploration, mining, and skiing. Individuals appearing include William A. Egan, Fictor Fischer, Ernest Gruening, Richard Nixon, and Frank Peratrovich. The remaining four reels consist of a pair of projection prints entitled "Alaska : the Frontier and the Future" (1978) produced by Alaska Film Studios and Eagleroo Productions and featuring Larry Garrity and Steve McCutcheon, and a variety of commercials.

275 film reels : sd., col. with b&w ; 16 mm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6669386

UAA/APU Consortium Library, Consortium Library

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Gruening, Ernest, 1887-1974

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Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Peratrovich, Frank, 1896-1984.

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McCutcheon, Steve, 1911-

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Steve McCutcheon was born on August 30, 1911 in Cordova, Alaska. After moving to Anchorage in 1915, he held a variety of jobs and eventually served terms in the Alaska Territorial House and Senate. He opened Mac's Foto Service in Anchorage in 1949 and developed a reputation as a commercial photographer and cinematographer. McCutcheon retired from public office in 1953. In 1955 he was elected to be one of 55 delegates for the Alaska Constitutional Convention. After selling Mac's Foto shop 1966, h...

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Egan, William A.

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Fischer, Victoria.

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Victor Fischer was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1948 and a Master's Degree in Community Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950. He also received the Littauer Fellowship in public administration from Harvard University (1961-1962). Fischer worked as a town planner in in New Hampshire and later held several planning related positions in Alaska. He was a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention ...

Alaska. Constitutional Convention (1955-1956)

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Eagleroo Productions (Firm)

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Mac's Foto Service (Anchorage, Alaska)

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