Oregon Today (1962)

9 Jun
Director  Don Horter
Producer  Don Horter Productions
Contributors Oregon Dept. of Planning and Development

Narrator, Tex Antoine

Music, Al Corelli

Photographers, Fred Miller, Eric Horter, and Harold Laney

Length  28 min
B&W/Color  Color
UO Library Catalog description:   Describes the industrial production of Oregon from the basic forest products to new electronic space devices. Includes views of the scenery in Oregon and shows the activity on farms and in cities.
Call # Mc213
Genre  Government-Sponsored
Rare  YES
Online  NO
Copyright status  Public Domain
Physical condition  Poor
Oregon-related  YES

Notes:

I found that in 1956 Don Horter made a film called White Peril which, according to a plot summary of the film on imdb.com, detailed the snow patrol on duty in the Cascade Mountains of Washington state. Also on eos.web I found a film that he also made called Of Ships and Cargo in 1960, which is a promotional film to draw in business to Portland, OR.  This seemed very similar in intention to Oregon Today.

While screening this film an old splice broke and I was obliged to repair it.  The film is extremely brittle, has extensive emulsion scratching, surface damage, and color degradation.  The film is extremely red and in poor condition.

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