Undermining the Great Depression: backyard gold in Jacksonville, Oregon (1980)

Director	Jim Likowski [i.e. James B. Likowski] and Bonnie Thompson
Producer	Rainlight Films (Milwaukie, OR)
Contributors	Music by David J. Duncan
Length	25 min
B&W/Color	Color
UO Library Catalog description:	Five Jacksonville, Or., “oldtimers” offer an oral history of their small town’s unique life-style during the Depression, when jobless townspeople mined for gold in their backyards and beneath houses and streets
Call #	Mc313
Genre	Documentary
Rare	YES
Online	NO
Copyright status	Copyrighted
Physical condition	Good
Oregon-related	YES

Notes:

While researching Rainlight Films I found that they produced a film for Forest Grove Community Hospital called Shared Labor about childbirth which was also made in 1980.  There is another film on WorldCat listed as being made by Rainlight Films, Sophie’s Search For a Cure, but it was made in 2007 and in Coloma, CA which lead me to think that it is a different production company under the same name.  I ended up cross-searching the creator’s, Jim Likowski, name and the production company.  I found a company profile on a professional networking website and found that it is the same Jim Likowski from this film.  So we can assume Rainlight Films moved to California at some point during the past two decades. Rainlight Films now offers services such as Sheet Film Development, Online Film Development, Feature Film Development, Cheap Film Development and B&W Film Development.