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Idaho Film Collection, 1910-2018

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Trusky, Tom, 1944-2009
Title
Idaho Film Collection
Dates
1910-2018 (inclusive)
Quantity
43 linear feet, (34 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Collection Number
MSS 200
Summary
The Idaho Film Collection (IFC) was founded by Tom Trusky prior to 1990 as a Boise State entity within the Hemingway Center for Western Studies. The collection contains extensive material relating to Nell Shipman and her films, historical publications by Trusky, correspondence between Trusky and others regarding his quest to find copies of old Idaho films, movie stills, set photos, film reviews, audio and visual multimedia, and research on specific films, actors, and actresses.
Repository
Boise State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
1910 University Drive
Boise ID
83725
Telephone: 2084263990
archives@boisestate.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is available for research.

Languages
English
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Content Description

The Idaho Film Collection (IFC) is the result of Boise State University English professor Tom Trusky's efforts to track down and preserve films, memorabilia, and any related information on Idaho films and filmaking. The films researched by Trusky in this collection were either primarily shot in Idaho or have key scenes filmed in Idaho. Those include: Bus Stop, with Marilyn Monroe at Ketchum; Sun Valley Serenade, with Sonja Henie; and Northwest Passage with Spencer Tracy at McCall. The collection contains extensive material relating to Nell Shipman and her films at Lionhead Lodge Studio at Priest Lake and elsewhere, historical publications by Trusky, correspondence between Trusky and others regarding his quest to find copies of old Idaho films, movie stills, set photos, film reviews, audio and visual multimedia, and research on specific films, actors, and actresses. One of the the largest series in the collection pertains to the film Told in the Hills (1919), filmed at Kamiah, Lawyer's Canyon, and the Selway River, of which the only remaining copy of the film Trusky tracked down and purchased from a Soviet Archive. The film holds significance as one of the earliest films ever shot in Idaho. Also included are the memoirs, films, and biography of Jack Hoxie, an early cowboy movie star who grew up in Riggins. While much of the IFC material pertains to the first half of the 20th century, there are files on various Idaho films into the 21st century.

Three books from the collection were cataloged separately and are available in Special Collections: Photoplay Writing by William Lord Wright (1922), Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual (1920), and Film Notes from the Museum of Modern Art Film Library (Volume 3, Number 2, November 1935).

The Idaho Film Collection contains over 450 audiovisual assets on a range of formats: from 16mm film to VHS to Betacam to audiocassette tapes. Many of the titles in the collection appear on multiple formats. Below is a list of every discrete title held in the collection. When there is an "et al" after the ID number, there are multiple assets in the collection for that title (i.e. Thunder Mountain is on MSS200_AV_456, MSS200_AV_457, and MSS200_AV_458). Contact Special Collections for a full detailed list of all AV assets in the collection.

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Historical Note

The Idaho Film Collection (IFC) was founded by Tom Trusky prior to 1990 as a Boise State entity within the Hemingway Center for Western Studies. Until his untimely passing in November 2009, Trusky collected, studied and republished the films of Nell Shipman, and published two books and other materials relating to her oeuvre; circulated rare films and lectured on Shipman's work; collected and archived films and photographs made in Idaho or relating to Idaho, as well as collateral materials relating to Idaho film and photographic history, all under the aegis of IFC.

These activities were supported by revenues from the sales of DVDs and books, film rental fees, and by a BSU Foundation account, the Howard Anderson bequest. The Anderson Bequest stipulates that its proceeds shall be used to support research and scholarship in the history and practice of film and photography in Idaho and in the Northwest; and to preserve and exhibit historic photographic equipment and archival material donated by Mr. Anderson. Boise physician Dr. Raymond Bungard also contributed to the IFC by donating several "lost" Idaho films.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Item description], Idaho Film Collection, Box [number] Folder [number], Boise State University Special Collections and Archives.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Donated by Tom Trusky in 2001, with collection aid by Howard Anderson and Raymond Bungard.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Told in the Hills (1919)

    • Description: Russian Film Archive (Photos)
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Ann Little (Actress)
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Melford & Ritchey Negatives
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Russia Translation Screening (Photos & Negatives)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Location "On Site" Photos
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Film Crew Photos
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: James Wong Howe "Assistant Camera" (Photos)
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Cast Photos
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box Box, Folder 8
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: George Melford Photos (Director)
      Container: Box 1, Folder 9
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Warwick & Little Photos
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 10
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Will Ritchey Ohotos (Writer)
      Container: Box 1, Folder 11
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Jesse Lasky Photos (Presenter)
      Container: Box 1, Folder 12
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Charles Ogle Photos (Actor)
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 13
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Told in the Hills: Ann Little Photos (Actress)
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 14
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Original Ad (Photocopy)
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 15
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: On Site Photos
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 16
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Nez Perce Photos
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 17
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Academy of Motion Picture Photocopies
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 18
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Photo Photocopies
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 19
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: IFC Photo Correspondence
      Container: Box 1, Folder 20
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Photos
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 1, Folder 21
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Movie Script (Portion Taken from Russian)
      Container: Box 1, Folder 22
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Correspondence w/ Hooper's Gems of the Mountains
      Dates: 1989-12-4
      Container: Box 1, Folder 23
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Lewiston Repremiere of Told in the Hills
      Dates: 1989-1990
      Container: Box 1, Folder 24
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Research on Nez Perce Indians in Told in the Hills
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 1, Folder 25
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Photo Exhibit
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Photo Exhibit
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Photo Display Captions
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Duplicate Sets of Told in the Hills Photos
      Container: Box 20, Folder 27
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Research
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Retold in the Hills-Jack Hoxie Correspondence with Edgar Wyatt
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky Correspondence
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Centennial Slides
      Container: Box 2, Folder 7
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Told in the Hills; Boise Public Library
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 2, Folder 8
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Movie Orders
      Container: Box 2, Folder 9
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Project Expenses
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box 2, Folder 10
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: British Film Institute
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 2, Folder 11
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Italian Film Festival (Le Giornate Del Cinema Muto)
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box 2, Folder 12
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Film Location History
      Container: Box 2, Folder 13
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Idaho Centennial Applications & Correspondence
      Dates: 1987-1990
      Container: Box 2, Folder 14
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Film Discovery
      Dates: 1986-1988
      Container: Box 2, Folder 15
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Gilroy Correspondence
      Dates: 1984-1989
      Container: Box 2, Folder 16
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
      Dates: 1988-1989
      Container: Box 2, Folder 17
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Idaho Commission on the Arts
      Dates: 1987-1988
      Container: Box 2, Folder 18
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Paul Wood Correspondence
      Dates: 1984-1989
      Container: Box 2, Folder 19
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 2, Folder 20
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Beulah Wilson Correspondence
      Dates: 1984-1988
      Container: Box 2, Folder 21
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Lasky & Howe Photocopies (UCLA Correspondence)
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box 2, Folder 22
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Charles Bell (U of Texas) Correspondence
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 2, Folder 23
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Nez Perce & Shawley (Tom Trusky Notes)
      Container: Box 2, Folder 24
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Reconstituted Intertitles
      Container: Box 2, Folder 25
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Marah Ellis Ryan
      Container: Box 3, Folder 1
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Marah Ellis Ryan
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Linus Walker Jr. Audiocassette Tape
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 3, Folder 3
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Told in the Hills Screenplay
      Container: Box 3, Folder 4
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Film Translation Audiocassette Tapes
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 3, Folder 5
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Willis Sims Correspondence
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Josephine Lucas Schroeder Correspondence
      Container: Box 3, Folder 7
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Harold Davis Correspondence
      Container: Box 3, Folder 8
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Lilian Pethtel Correspondence
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 3, Folder 9
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Neal Parsell Correspondence
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 3, Folder 10
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Bernard Parker Correspondence
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 3, Folder 11
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Oregon Histoical Society/Gosfilmofond & Chechahcos
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 3, Folder 12
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Nez Perce Historical Park
      Container: Box 3, Folder 13
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Nez Perce Research
      Container: Box 3, Folder 14
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Nez Perce County Historical Society Correspondence
      Dates: 1987-1989
      Container: Box 3, Folder 15
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Native Americans in Film Research
      Container: Box 3, Folder 16
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Told in the Hills Film Reviews
      Container: Box 3, Folder 17
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Bill Murphy Correspondence
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 3, Folder 18
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Randall Morgan Correspondence
      Dates: 1987-1988
      Container: Box 4, Folder 1
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Robert Moore Correspondence
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 4, Folder 2
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Catherine Cate Correspondence
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 4, Folder 3
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Grace Bartlett Correspondence
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 4, Folder 4
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Georgia Barnes/Esther Magallon Correspondence
      Dates: 1984-1989
      Container: Box 4, Folder 5
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Haruo Aoki Correspondence
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 4, Folder 6
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & S. Ross Evans Correspondence
      Dates: 1987-1990
      Container: Box 4, Folder 7
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Kevin Brownlow Correspondence
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 4, Folder 8
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Berta McLeod Correspondence
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Box 4, Folder 9
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & David Mattison/Dennis Duffy Correspondence
      Dates: 1986-1988
      Container: Box 4, Folder 10
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Library of Congress Correspondence
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 4, Folder 11
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Kamiah Arts Inc. Correspondence
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 4, Folder 12
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Arthur Holmlund Correspondence
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 4, Folder 13
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Rep Jeanne Givens Correspondence
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 4, Folder 14
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Michael Feeney Correspondence
      Container: Box 4, Folder 15
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Larry Edmunds Bookshop Correspondence
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 4, Folder 16
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Pearl Dundas Correspondence
      Dates: 1984-1989
      Container: Box 4, Folder 17
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Told in the Hills The Play & The Novel
      Container: Box 4, Folder 18
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Told in the Hills Actor Information
      Container: Box 4, Folder 19
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Lewiston Tribune Correspondence
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 4, Folder 20
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Told in the Hills Film Discovery Press Coverage
      Container: Box 4, Folder 21
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky Correspondence with Russia
      Dates: 1986-1989
      Container: Box 4, Folder 22
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Museum of the American Indian Correspondence
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 4, Folder 23
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: Tom Trusky & Idaho Centennial Commission Correspondence
      Dates: 1987-1990
      Container: Box 4, Folder 24
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)
    • Description: 1919 Newspaper Coverage of Told in the Hills
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 4, Folder 25
      Location: Told in the Hills (1919)

  • Tom Trusky Articles, Publications, Documentaries, & Lectures

  • Research Files on Actors and Actresses

  • Tornado (1924)

    • Description: Obtaining the Film Tornado (Correspondence)
      Container: Box 6, Folder 15
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Tom Trusky Correspondence with House Peters, Jr.
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 7, Folder 1
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Tornado's (Re)Premiere Preparation-Kellogg ID (Correspondence)
      Dates: 1996-1997
      Container: Box 7, Folder 2
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Rsearch for Tornado Based Projects
      Container: Box 7, Folder 3
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Film Intertitles (Tornado)
      Container: Box 7, Folder 4
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Publicity on locating film
      Dates: 1990-1994
      Container: Box 7, Folder 5
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Correspondence about Tornado
      Dates: 1989-2000
      Container: Box 7, Folder 6
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Sally Dumaux Correspondence
      Dates: 1997-1998
      Container: Box 7, Folder 7
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Indelible Tidbits Correspondence (with Photos)
      Dates: 1996-1997
      Container: Box 7, Folder 8
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Timber Tornado Exhibition
      Dates: 1994
      Container: Box 7, Folder 9
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Kellogg ID Tornado (Re)Premiere Publicity & Press
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 7, Folder 10
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Kellogg ID Tornado Repremiere Photos
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 7, Folder 11
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Silver Valley Trader newspaper article about Tornado
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 21, Folder 22
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Tornado Photographs (Film Stills)
      Container: Box 7, Folder 12
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Timber Tornado Exhibition (Slides, Negatives, Photos)
      Container: Box 7, Folder 13
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Tornado Correspondence-Marguerite Sheffler
      Dates: 1995-1997
      Container: Box 7, Folder 14
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Tornado Corres[ondence-Ruth Clifford
      Container: Box 7, Folder 15
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Tornado "Missing Photographs"
      Container: Box 7, Folder 16
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Tornado at Cinecon 34
      Dates: 1998
      Container: Box 7, Folder 17
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Lucy and House Peters Jr. Scrapbook related to Tornado (given to Tom Trusky in 1997)
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 21, Folder 21
      Location: Tornado (1924)
    • Description: Tornado & Idaho Commission on the Arts
      Container: Box 8, Folder 1
      Location: Tornado (1924)

  • Researched Films & Related Materials

  • Not This Part of the World (1995)

  • Nell Shipman

    • Description: Nell Shipman Remembered (Idaho Statesman)
      Dates: 2000
      Container: Box 12, Folder 1
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: "The Girl From God's Country-The Nell Shipman Story" (Film Event)
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 12, Folder 2
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: The Grub Stake (1923)
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 12, Folder 3
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Nell Shipman & Bob Limbert: "Two-Gun & The Girl from God's Country"
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 12, Folder 4
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: "Shipmania" Idaho Film Collection Sale Signs
      Container: Box 12, Folder 5
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Trusky Correspondence about Nell Shipman
      Dates: 1991-1996
      Container: Box 12, Folder 7
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: White Water (1926)/George Eastman House
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 12, Folder 11
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Baree. Son of Kazan (1925)
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 12, Folder 12
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Nell Shipman Book Search
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 12, Folder 13
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Nell Shipman Photos (Headshots)
      Container: Box 12, Folder 14
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Nell Shipman Film Scholarship
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 12, Folder 15
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Nell Shipman & Arnold Barham (Photocopied Photo)
      Container: Box 12, Folder 16
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Nell Shipman Vaudeville Yard Seattle (Photocopied Photos)
      Container: Box 12, Folder 17
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Ernest Shipman (Photocopied Photos)
      Container: Box 12, Folder 18
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Barry Shipman (Photocopied Photos)
      Container: Box 12, Folder 19
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Screenwriter & Rising Star
      Dates: 1912-1917
      Container: Box 12, Folder 20
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: James Oliver Curwood (Photos)
      Container: Box 12, Folder 21
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: God's Country & The Woman (James Oliver Curwood)
      Dates: 1915-1917
      Container: Box 12, Folder 22
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Artistic Portrait
      Container: Box 12, Folder 23
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Back to God's Country (1919) Film Stills
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box 12, Folder 24
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Something New (1920) Film Stills
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box 12, Folder 25
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Joseph Walker
      Container: Box 12, Folder 26
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Dawgs To Cars (Set Photos)
      Container: Box 13, Folder 1
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: A Bear, A Boy, and a Dog (1921) Film Stills Photocopied
      Dates: 1921
      Container: Box 13, Folder 2
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Girl from God's Country (Photos)
      Container: Box 13, Folder 3
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Minehaha, Coolin, Forest Lodge, Lionhead, Grubstake
      Container: Box 13, Folder 4
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Lionhead & Forest Lodge (Photos)
      Dates: 1923-1925
      Container: Box 13, Folder 5
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Trail of the Northwind (1924) Photos
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box 13, Folder 6
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: The Light on Lookout Mountain (1926) Photos
      Dates: 1923-1924
      Container: Box 13, Folder 7
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Amerigo Serrao (AKA: Arthur Varney, Grover Lee, Peter Locke, Peter Varney)
      Container: Box 13, Folder 8
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: Charles Douglas & Daphne Anne Ayers (Twins), Barry Shipman
      Container: Box 13, Folder 9
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: The Story of Mr. Hobbes (1947)
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 13, Folder 10
      Location: Nell Shipman
    • Description: The Story of Mr. Hobbes (1947) Photos
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 13, Folder 11
      Location: Nell Shipman

  • Film Festivals, Events, Organizations, Publications, and Indexes

  • Research, Donation & Inventory Files

  • Oversized Materials

    • Description: Musee d' Orsay Nell Shipman Exhibit
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Materials
    • Description: Not This Part of the World T-Shirt
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Materials
    • Description: "Genesee of the Hills" A Play based on Marah Ellis Ryan's Told in the Hills
      Dates: 1907
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Materials
    • Description: An Index to the Films of Jack Hoxie in Classic Images journal
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Materials
    • Description: Extra Told in the Hills Photos (Brownlow)
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Materials

  • Oversized Newspaper Articles

    • Description: Boise Weekly's Celluloid Idaho Edition
      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Amnesiac A (Idaho Statesman newspaper article, 12/26/2005)
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Napoleon Dynamite (Idaho Statesman newspaper article, 3/4/2005)
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Autumn Angel (Idaho Statesman newspaper article, 1/12/06
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Movies based in Idaho (Idaho Statesman newspaper article covering multiple movies and the efforts to film in idaho, 6/5/2005)
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Idaho International Film Festrival (Idaho Statesman newspaper article, 9/27/04)
      Dates: 2004
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Trudell (Idaho Statesman newspaper article, 1/18/05)
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Napoleon Dynamite (Idaho Statesman newspaper article, 7/9/06)
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: ibid (Idaho Statesman newspaper article, 6/30/06)
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Nell Shipman (Idaho Statesman newpaper article, 12/22/03)
      Dates: 2003
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Napoleon Dynamite (Idaho Statesman newspaper article, 6/26/05)
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Napoleon Dynamite (Idaho Statesman newspaper article, 1/26/04)
      Dates: 2004
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Idaho Film Collection/Trusky Articles (Idaho Press, 1999)
      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Retold at Lewiston, Silent Films Page 1A (Lewiston Morning Tribune, 9/24/90)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Retold at Lewiston, Silent Films Page 4A (Lewiston Morning Tribune, 9/24/90)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Shown in the Valley, Silent Film Page 1E (Lewiston Morning Tribune, 9/21/90)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles
    • Description: Shown in the Valley, Silent Film Page 4E (Lewiston Morning Tribune, 9/21/90)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Oversized Newspaper Articles

  • Film Posters

    • Description: Washington Motion Picture Corporation Stock Sales
      Dates: 1918
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: I Met Him in Paris (Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Escape to Glory (Pat O'Brien and Constance Bennett at the Roxy Theater)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: The Mortal Storm (Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Black Diamonds (Richard Arlen, Andy Devine - Roxy Theater Double Feature)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Northwest Passage (Spencey Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Sun Valley Serenade (Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: That Wonderful Urge (Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney - Long Poster)
      Dates: 1948
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Duchess of Idaho Version 4 (Esther Williams, Van Johnson, John Lund - Print 50/308)
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Duchess of Idaho Version 2 (Esther Williams, Van Johnson, John Lund - Print 50/308)
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: The Wild North/Gefahrten Des Grauens (Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey, Cyd Charisse)
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: The Wild North (Stewart Granger, Wendell Corey - Long Poster)
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Unconquered (Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard - Re-release, Print R55/402)
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Bus Stop (Marilyn Monroe - Print 56/343)
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: 1984 (Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling - Print 56/105)
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Run of the Arrow (Rod Steiger, Sarita Montiel, Brian Keith, Ralph Meeker - Technicolor, Print 57/396)
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Face of a Fugitive (Fred MacMurry, in Eastman Color, Print 59/107)
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Peeping Tom (Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley)
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Sanctuary (Lee Remick, Yves Montand, Bradford Dillman)
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Mountain Man, Leaving Civilization (Robert Redford)
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Mountain Man, A Crow Lance (Robert Redford)
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Mountain Man (Robert Redford, Will Geer, Allyn Ann McLerie)
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Breakheart Pass (Charles Bronson, Ben Johsnon, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ed Laudter, David Huddleston)
      Dates: 1975
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Bronco Billy Version 1 (Clint Eastwood)
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Bronco Billy Version 2 (Clint Eastwood)
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Heaven Gate (Christtopher Walken, John Hut, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert, Joseph Cotten)
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: The Being (Martin Landau, Jose Fehher, Dorothy Malone, Ruth Buzzi, Marianne Gordon Rogers, Rexx Coltrane)
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Retold in The Hills - Cover Proof with Edits (Nell Shipman, Boise State University)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Retold in The Hills - Poster Proof with Edits 2 (Nell Shipman, Boise State University)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Retold in The Hills - Poster Proof with Edits 3 (Nell Shipman, Boise State University)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Retold in The Hills - Poster Proof with Edits 4 (Nell Shipman, Boise State University)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Retold in The Hills - Poster Proof with Edits 5 (Nell Shipman, Boise State University)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Retold in The Hills - Poster Proof with Edits 6 (Nell Shipman, Boise State University)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Retold in The Hills - Poster Proof with Edits 7 (Nell Shipman, Boise State University)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Retold in The Hills - Poster Proof with Edits 8 (Nell Shipman, Boise State University)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Retold in The Hills - Poster Proof with Edits 9 (Nell Shipman, Boise State University)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Retold in The Hills - Poster Proof with Edits 10 (Nell Shipman, Boise State University)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Retold in The Hills - Poster Proof with Edits 11 (Nell Shipman, Boise State University)
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Short Cuts (Andie MacDow, Bruce Davison, Julianne Moore)
      Dates: 1993
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Memoirs of a Geisha
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: The Nell Shipman DVD Collection, Volume 2 (Somethign New, A Bear, A Boy, and a Dog)
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Oversize drawers 9037, Drawer 9
      Location: Film Posters
    • Description: Almosting It (Lee Majors, Will Von Tagen, Jessica Sulikowski, Jane Merrow, Terry Kiser) (2 copies)
      Dates: 2016
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Film Posters

  • IFC Audiovisual Materials

    Other Descriptive Information

    The Idaho Film Collection contains over 450 audiovisual assets on a range of formats: from 16mm film to VHS to Betacam to audiocassette tapes. Many of the titles in the collection appear on multiple formats. Below is a list of every discrete title held in the collection. When there is an "et al" after the ID number, there are multiple assets in the collection for that title (i.e. Thunder Mountain is on MSS200_AV_456, MSS200_AV_457, and MSS200_AV_458). Contact Special Collections for a full detailed list of all AV assets in the collection.

    • Description: 1918 Maxwell | Silent Maxwell automobile advertisement. Earliest known surviving film by Joseph Walker, Nell Shipman's cameraman, it was shot on the Mojave Desert, where Shipman and Walker returned to shoot her 1921 feature advertisement, "Something New", also for the MAxwell Corporation. See also "Something New" and "Something New Project." Print from Em-Gee Film Library, Reseda, CA; originally and Blackhawk print. (U-matic, 16mm film)
      Dates: 1918
      Container: Object AV_323 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Back to God's Country | Nell Shipman's hit film, earliest surviving silent feature shot partially in Canada, based on popular author James Oliver Curwood's "Wapi the Walrus." Photographed by Joseph Walker, later Frank Capra's Academy Award-winning cameraman. Tinted, restored print from the National Archives of Canada. 1919 Shipman. Produced by Hemingway Western Studies Center. (16mm Film, D-2 Video, DVD, U-matic, VHS, Betacam)
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Object AV_088 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Photoplay Screen Supplement | Similar to a segment of Entertainment Tonight, this fragment contains four feature stories about the glittery world of early Hollywood. ONe segment is about the making of "Told in the Hills"; the first feature film made in Idaho, and stresses the harsh environments of Hollywoodians went through to produce a film. This silent print from UCLA. 1919 (16mm Film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Object AV_321 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Told in the Hills | First feature film made in Idaho (Lewiston/Kamiah area), starring the Nez Perce in their native regalia. Reels 3 and 4 only of the 6 reel film survive in this print from the Moscow, Russia film archive. It is a cowboy/Indian saga with a liberal bent: it's a plea for cultural harmony and mutual understanding, very little of which comes through in the surviving reels. Original from surviving two reels in Gosfilmofond, the Russian film archives in Moscow. Famous Players-Laskey 1919 (16mm Film, 35mm Film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Object AV_428 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: The Dinosaur and the Missing Link (1915); The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1919); Creation (1931) | [no description] (VHS)
      Dates: 1919-1931
      Container: Object AV_067
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: A Bear, A Boy and A Dog | Shipman directs this film appearing only briefly in this nostalgic story about a boy taking "Saturday Off", which was the title of this film when it was first released in 1920. (Title changed in 1921.) This print from (Defunct) Los Angeles Thunderbird Films, via Gary Lacher. 1920 Shipman. Nell Shipman's granddaughter, Nina Shipman, introduces A Bear, A Boy and A Dog, and Gary Lacher (The) Portland ORegon filmmaker who discovered the sole surviving pring in a collection shipped from Alaska to Arizona, retells the story of his wonderful find in fascinating interviews conducted especially for this videotape, which also features an original score by Doug Lemon. PRoduced by the Hemingway Western Studies Center. (16mm Film, U-matic, VHS)
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Object AV_042 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Something New | Shipman's "commercial" for the Maxwell car becomes a feature melodrama with driving scenes certain to have audiences on the edge of their seats. Print with UCLA credits. Has been edited (respliced, partially correcting errors in original). To see version supplied by UCLA(with all errors in tact), see 900128.02. Has no UCLA credits. Can only be used by Trusky/Baker. Shipman 1920 (16mm film, U-matic, Betacam, VHS, SVHS, Reel-to-Reel)
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Object AV_283
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Backfire (Jack Hoxie) | Jack Hoxie stars in this action Western of a man trying to save his friend, while on the run himself. George Sowards is the friend, Lou Meehan is the relentless sheriff, and Florence Gilbert is the love interest. PIano scored. Directed by Alvin J. Neitz. Sunset Production. 1922 Grapevine (Original Sunset Production) (VHS)
      Dates: 1922
      Container: Object AV_075
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Grub-Stake | Nell Shipman's last feature, the film that destroyed her. It's a Yukon melodrama filmed at Minnehaha Studios in Spokane, Washington and at Priest Lake. British Film Institute reduction print from European negative (released in England as "The Romance of Lost Valley".) Proof Copy; Tinted/Toned; New Music (16mm film, U-matic, Betacam, DVD)
      Dates: 1922
      Container: Object AV_250 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Light on the Lookout | Second in the "Little Dramas of the Big Places" series. This love story is shot on location in the upper Priest Lakes are in Idaho. 1923 SHipman (16mm film, U-matic Floppy Disk)
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Object AV_317 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Trail of the North Wind | First two-reeler of a series Nell Shipman called "Little Dramas in Big Places." Nell plays Dreena, the typical Shipman hero (independent, animal loving, nature girl) who lives in harmony with the wilds and it's creatures -- the denizens of her zoo at Lionhead Lodge, the film studio she built at Priest Lake, Idaho. Film co-stars Barry Shipman, the star's son, in his only film role. An elegant, simple, and straightforward tale, flawlessly photographed by Bobby Newhart. Print from John Cunningham. 1923 Shipman (16mm Film, U-matic, VHS, DVD)
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Object AV_253
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Wolf Tracks (Jack Hoxie) | Jack Hoxie tracks killers of a family. 1923 Grapevine Video (VHS)
      Dates: 1923
      Container: Object AV_081
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Tornado | Melodrama. The eternal triangle: House Peters as a lumber camp foreman known as Tornado, betrayed by his best friend, who marries his sweetheart. 'Tornado' rescues the wife/sweetheart from a trainwreck caused (coincidentally?) by a tornado, but is unable to save her husband. Filmed at Wallace, Idaho. PRes by Carl Laemmle, Directed by King Baggot. 1924 Universal-Jewel (35mm Film, VHS)
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Object AV_417 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Tornado Live Recording | [no description] (Audiocassette Tape)
      Container: Object AV_247
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Wolves of the North | 1924 William Duncan serial for Universal made in McCall. The adventures of fur trappers in the Pacific Northwest, as they fight Indians, the elements and each other. On order from Gosfilmofond - Film is estimated at 50 minutes. NOTE: According to Tom Trusky's correspondence (MSS 200, Box 20, Folder 26), this film received from Gosfilmofond is not the 1924 silent film but instead a different unidentified silent film. (35mm Film)
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Object AV_424
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: White Water | Sentimental story set in a "back-of-beyond" logging camping where Dreena, the "story-girl" befriends two orphans, Joe Daniel (Graydon Winslow), a "fiddler and camp follower," and his younger brother, Patrick Daniel (Donald WInslow), whose growth has been stunted as a result of a tree falling on him. Dreena, with the help of her animal friends, and the camp boss (Bert Van Tuyle) provides the brothers social, emotional, practical and spiritual support, as well as physically rescuing the younger brother, nicknamed "Little Peedee," from a raging river. Despite the fact that a specialist has said PeeDee will never grow, get will, nor live long, he seems to take his fate in stride with the help and care of Dreena. HIs (PeeDee's) theme song is "Oh, It Ain't A-Goin' Ter Rain No More," which concludes the piece. (Tinted) (35mm Film)
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Object AV_074 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Frivolous Sal Trailer | Trailer for the movie Frivolous Sal. From UCLA, non-circulating, non-duplicating. May be viewed but not copied (DVD)
      Dates: 1925
      Container: Object AV_256
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Thunder Mountain | Thunder Mountain is the home of illiterate folk where only the moneylender, Si Pace, has "book larnin'," and there is a long-standing feud between the Martins and Givenses. NOTE: Unclear if this film is actually the 1925 version or if it's a later (1935 or 1947) verision (35mm Film)
      Dates: 1925
      Container: Object AV_456
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: 80th Anniversary of Cataldo Mission | Anniversary of Cataldo Mission in 1926 featuring Father Cataldo (DVD)
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Object AV_263
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Border Sheriff (The) (Jack Hoxie) | 1926 Grapevine (VHS)
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Object AV_076
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Pendleton Round Up 1926 | [no description] (8mm Film)
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Object AV_274
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: The Bat | The UCLA Film and Television Archive (VHS)
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Object AV_066
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: The Mascot; The Bat | Ladislas Starevitch; Roland Wessos (VHS)
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Object AV_068
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Wolf's Brush by Shipman | Title Frames, black and white and tinted. (35mm Film)
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Object AV_452
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Priest Lake Film | Copy of "moody" (shot on overcast day) 16mm home movies; Trees, trees, trees and then Thorofare, where Upper Priest Lake drops into the THe priest Lake and long shots of Lionhead Lodge (Nell Shipman's film camp). Medium shots of Forest Lodge where Shipman and Company initially stayed before moving across to Mosquito Bay to build Lionhead. Finally close ups of a few residents/visitors including Daddy Duffil, co-star of "The Trail of the Northwind." Duffil was tour guide at Lionhead after shipman departed. Film concludes with shots of parading turkey. Robert Bird Stauffer 1928. Purchase stipulation: IN HOUSE (ON CAMPUS) RESEARCH VIEWING ONLY. (Betacam - Small)
      Dates: 1928
      Container: Object AV_086
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Reaching for the Moon | brief title frame from "Nu-Art Films," previously thought to be "Blowing His Top." Film most notably known for it's supposedly showcasing Bing Crosby in one number - his first feature appearance (IMDB). Starring Douglas Fairbanks, Edward Everett Horton and Bebe Daniels. (16mm Film)
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Object AV_328 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Home and Peking (Beijing, China) | [no description] (16mm Film)
      Dates: 1931
      Container: Object AV_347
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Spring Shots of Peking (Beijing, China) | [no description] (16mm Film)
      Dates: 1931
      Container: Object AV_346
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Gold | Jack Hoxie Wester (talkie). Majestic (VHS)
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Object AV_050
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Trouble Busters | Jock Hoxie talkie. Western: vehicle is land grab for oil leases with comis effects, chase scenes, equestrian stunts. Majestic (Sinister Cinema) 1933 (VHS)
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Object AV_073
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Come and Get It | A classic adaption of the Edna Ferber novel about a lumber king battling against his son for the love of one woman. Location logging scenes shot at Headquarters, Idaho. 1936 MGM (16mm film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Object AV_313 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: I Met Him in Paris | Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young star in a sophisticated, witty film, the first shot in the just-opened Sun Valley and one of the best films made (partially) in Idaho. 1937 Paramount. (16mm film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Object AV_281 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Mortal Storm | The story of a German Jewish family broken apart by split loyalties during Hilter's reign and one young couples ultimately tragic flight to Austria for freedom. Starring James Stewart, Margaaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Ward Bond, Robert Stack. Sun Valley stars as German/Swiss Alps. MGM 1940 (16mm film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Object AV_308 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Northward Ho: The Making of Northwest Passage | Sepia Platinum process (tinted) MGM "promotional documentary" about the making of MSM films, largely NOrthwest Passage, filmed near McCall in 1938 and 1939. This film supplied by Turner Entertainment; use restricted by contract. MGM 1940. (U-matic, VHS)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Object AV_056 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Northwest Passage | Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, and Walter Brennan star in this film loosely based on Kenneth Roberts novel Script co=authored by Talbot Jennings, born in Shoshone, raised in Nampa, and Educated at University of Idaho. One of the earliest Technicolor films. MGM 1940. (16mm, U-matic)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Object AV_304 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Sun Valley Serenade | Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle, Dorothy Dandridge, the Nicholas Brother. Memorable musical with "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "it Happened in Sun Valley," plus a striking finale with Olympic champion Henie skating on black ice. 1941 20th Century Fox (16mm Film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Object AV_287 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Hit the Ice | Abbott and Costello as newspaper photographers in a comedy about putting criminals on ice - the rink at Sun Valley. Only a few brief exteriors shot in Idaho. 1943 Universal (16mm film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Object AV_289 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Panique | Alice (Viviane Romance) gets out of jail after taking the rap for a crime committed by her lover, Alfred (Paul Bernard), only to find that he has recently broken the law in a more serious fashion: After a botched holdup, Alfred brutally murdered an elderly woman. Just when the couple think their days are numbered, town outcast Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) begins to fall for Alice. Realizing that the locals despise the pariah, Alice uses her charms to trick him into taking the fall. (French Film) (16mm Film)
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Object AV_279 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: God's Country (Keaton) | Second remake of Curwood/Shipman film, stars Buster Keaton in loosely adapted comic version. 1947 (16mm film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Object AV_311 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Story of Mr. Hobbs | Story of Mr. Hobbs struggles with the sea as a fisherman. Nell Shipman Film. Produced in 1947. (VHS)
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Object AV_064 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Bob Doolittle 16mm Films | Priest Lake 1950's. Selections of home movies taken by Bob Doolittle, prominent politician of North Idaho, held by Bob Aldridge of Boise. Selections made by Tom Trusky 2006 (DVD)
      Dates: 1950-1959
      Container: Object AV_255
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Duchess of Idaho | (Missing Eleanor Powell sequence.) A romantic comedy in which Esther Williams is abetted by handsome men, beautiful women and equally beautiful swimming pools. Filmed in Sun Valley, Idaho. MGM 1950 (16mm film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Object AV_298 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Back to God's Country (Rock Hudson) | Third Remake of Curwood/Shipman film stars Rock Hudson; not filmed in Idaho. 1952 Paramount (16mm Film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Object AV_295 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Bus Stop | Marilyn Monroe stars in this romantic Western comedy about a motley collection of travelers who arrive at some truths about themselves while snowbound at an Arizona bus stop. Climatic "Bus Stop" snow scenes are filmed in Ketchum, Idaho. 1956 Twentieth Century-Fox (16mm film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1956
      Container: Object AV_100 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Jack Hoxie Memoirs and Interview | Tapes of Jack Hoxie recalling his life and being interviewed by Lila Blythe. Portion used for UTP production "ReTold in the Hills." These are copies of original and contents sheets provided by Bonnie Hoxie. Tom Trusky has cassette copies. 1957 and 1959 (Reel-to-Reel)
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Object AV_213
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Jack Hoxie Memoirs and Interview | Tapes of Jack Hoxie recalling his life and being interviewed by Lila Blythe. Portion used for UTP production "ReTold in the Hills." These are copies of original and contents sheets provided by Bonnie Hoxie. Tom Trusky has cassette copies. 1957 and 1959 (Reel-to-Reel)
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Object AV_214
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Matinee Idol: Remembered | Biography of Jack Hoxie. Hoxie shows memorabilia, recounts his career. Many details of his early life in Idaho (a wife, a brother, murdered) forgotten. Shown near the end of his life, Jack found god. The Methodist God. Copy from Jack Hoxie Jr. WKY-TV (Oklahoma), circa 1960 (VHS)
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Object AV_054
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Ski Party | Frankie Avalon, Dwayne HIckman, Robert Q. Lewis. The beach party gang - minus Annette! - come to Sun Valley for their usual escapades. American International Pictures 1965 (16mm film, U-matic)
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Object AV_285
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Requiem/Boise and Beyond | Filmed entirely at Sea-Tac International Airport. Experimental film - Boise, Idaho is symbolic. 1982 Grilla Archives (VHS)
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Object AV_079
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Frank S. Altmiller Recording | Recording by Frank S. Altmiller recorded on 7/29/84; sent to Tom Truskey by his son Sherman Altmiller. (Reel-to-Reel)
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Object AV_212
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Pale Rider, The Making of | Chronicles the preparation, use, and restoration of public lands for, of, and by Clint Eastwood/Warner Bros. for their filming of Pale Rider July-October 1984. 1984 USDA (VHS)
      Dates: 1984
      Container: Object AV_060
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Making of Grub-Stake (The) | Production for the BSU Hemingway Center's Nell Shipman Festival exhibition, prepared by SMITC. Scripted by Berry Shipman, narrated by Nina Shipman (Nells granddaughter) and Lani Beth Waldrop (Nina's daughter). "The Ballad of Nell Shipman", written for this production by Barry Shipman, is sung by Noel Shipman (Nell's grandson, Barry's son and Nina's brother). 1987 Hemingway Western Studies Center (U Matic - Large)
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Object AV_115
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Paul Fisher Interview | Unedited footage shot by University Television Production on September 10, 1988. Tom Trusky interviews Paul Fisher in and about IDaho Falls, Idaho. Intended for a program on The Cowpuncher, the first feature film made in Idaho (Reelplays Corporation, Chicago, 1915), which Paul Fisher, as a young boy, participated in. The film is apparently lost; only news stories about it making survive - and Fisher's recollections. Hold for possible future production and historical data. 1988 Hemingway Western Studies Center. (U-matic)
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Object AV_137 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Retold in the Hills | Two almost-half-hour programs about the history of the making and recovery (from Moscow, Russia) of the earliest surviving feature film made in Idaho, "Told in in the Hills" (1919). Including information about Nez Perce and shocking revelations about Jack Hoxie (aka Hart Hoxie, Jack Stone). University Television Production filmed summer 1988 and aired in Boise, Moscow, and Lewiston in September of the year, then later in LEwiston, prior to Centennial celebration screening of the film there. Hemingway Western Studies Center/UTP 1988 (VHS, DVD, U-matic)
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Object AV_039
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Little Dramas of the Big Places Master | Canadian-born silent film writer, director and star Nell Shipman came to Idaho's Priest Lake in the 1920's searching for authentic wilderness film locales. She found them - along with murderous and friendly locals, and a harsh and beautiful land which would bankrupt her company and provide her with material for an unforgettable memoirs, portions of which have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly and her recently published autobiography, The Silent Screen and my Talking Heart. Shipman envisioned a dozen Little Dramas to be filmed at Lionhead Lodge, her wilderness film studio at Priest Lake. Four of these two-reelers were completed. Only two of them, however, Trail of the Northwind and The Light on Lookout, are known to survive. Little Dramas is comprised of these two. Produced by Hemingway Western Studies Center (VHS)
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Object AV_052 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Between Pictures | A one-woman play about Nell Shipman by her son, Berry Shipman, presented at the University of Hawaii in Hilo, Hawaii. 1991 Shipman (VHS)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Object AV_046
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Joan Benny Interview (with Tom Trusky) | Unedited interview held with Joan Benny in her Park Avenue, New York City apartment in November of 1991 for use on the commercial release of Nell Shipman's "Something New" (900128.04). 3/4" VHS Version appears on "Something New Project" tape (900128.05) (Betacam - Small)
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Object AV_085
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Who the Hell is Mel Blanc | Mel Blanc sound effects, including the MAxwell automobile. Used for Boise State University production (in the Joan Benny interview) of "Something New." Tape courtesy of Noel Blanc (1992?) 7.5 ips (Reel-to-Reel)
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Object AV_209
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Harrold Weinberger Interview 8/12/93 | Telephone interview conducted by Tom Trusky. Harrold was an MGM employee, based in McCall, Idaho, who worked on the film "Northwest Passage." He interviewed Native Americans in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana and determined who among them would be in the film. The interview contains his memoirs about these interviews and other work he did for Northwest Passage. (Audiocassette Tape)
      Dates: 1993
      Container: Object AV_245 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Nell Shipman: The Girl from God's Country | The story of Nell Shipmans film making and Tom Truskys efforts to gather her films into the Idaho Film Collection at Boise State University. INcludes the spot done on Entertainment Tonight. Narrated by Tom Trusky (3/4" original missing) (VHS, U-matic)
      Dates: 1993
      Container: Object AV_118
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Press Your Luck | USA Network Episode 767 BC 43847. 6/22/95. PDR Productions, Inc. New York. (VHS)
      Dates: 1995
      Container: Object AV_078 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Creating a Balance - Idaho Women and the Land | Laurens Fins presents an exploration of the roles of women in finding a balance between wise use and the protection of Idaho's resources; both in early settlement and modern day. Focus is on on Northern Idaho. Clips from Nell Shipman's Trail of the Northwind and Light on Lookout portray literally an early day (1920's) tree hugger. University of Idaho 1996 (VHS)
      Dates: 1996
      Container: Object AV_048
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Not This Part of the World | Phil Atlakson, Associate Professor, Boise State University Theatre Arts, produced and directed this feature film which poses the question: "Will Boise carve out it's own future; or will it be swept into the mainstream of American culture?" A social commentary on the coming of age of the characters and the city in which they live. Boise State Theatre Arts students comprise the cast. Downhouse Productions 1996. (16mm film, 35mm film, DAT, Reel-to-Reel, Punch Tape, Audiocassette Tape, VHS)
      Dates: 1996
      Container: Object AV_082 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: The Light on Lookout; Filmography; Nell Biography | [no description] (Floppy Disk)
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Object AV_265
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Tornado Re-release Premiere | Documents the event which took place at eh Rena Theatre in Kellogg, Idaho. Includes Tom Trusky's interview with House Peters, JR. on "Everybody's Business," with Lake Puett. Historic Wallace Preservation Society/Moonshine Hill Press 1997 (VHS)
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Object AV_069 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Breakfast of Champions (Mercury Rising Promo) | Clip from David Letterman Show on April 3, 1998 with Bruce WIllis promoting the release of "Mercury Rising." Willis portion broadcast live from Twin Falls, Idaho where he is on location for "Breakfast of Champions." CBS 1998 (VHS)
      Dates: 1998
      Container: Object AV_047
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Outdoor Idaho: Idaho in the Movie | Tom Trusky, collector and curator for the Idaho Film Collection introduces highlights from the collection, including the first feature length film shot in Idaho (1919), "Told in the Hills." Trusky comments on the historic value of the footage of Nez Perce Indians with their authentic attire and gear appearing as Kootenai Indians. This film also includes important early Clearwater scenes. Pioneer woman filmmaker Nell Shipman and her Priest Lake location are included, as well as the movie "Tornado" (1924), with early lodging footage on the St. Joe River. A Potlatch log drive form the North Fork on the Clearwater to Lewiston, National Geographics 1930 Expedition on the Salmon RIver, Helen Nettletons films of Joyce Ranch activities and veteran river outfitter Omer Drury's films of the Snake and Salmon Rivers (including Buckskin Bill) and more are included. (VHS)
      Dates: 1999
      Container: Object AV_059
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Canadians IV: Nell Shipman - International Version | Amerimage Production Inc. Deluxe Media Management. 7/19/05 (DVD)
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Object AV_258
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Nell Shipman | Various Clips, 5/11/05 (DVD)
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Object AV_262
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Idaho Film Bureau, Film Idaho Day Photos | 2/14/2006. Idaho Film Bureau, Idaho Commerce and Labor (DVD)
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Object AV_261
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: 100 Years of Mormonism | Clawson Collection of 100 years of Mormonism. Copyright 2007 by Intellectual Reserve Inc. (DVD)
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Object AV_254
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Nell Shipman Photos | Tom Trusky (Zip Disk)
      Container: Object AV_264
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Nell Shipman Sampler | Clips of various Shipman films given to TV groups, etcetera who wish to look at her films. (VHS)
      Container: Object AV_061
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Adventures in Washington | Advertising Washington State (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_343
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: All in Vain | Roach Comedy. Paul C Parrott 42 (8mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_269
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Appaloosa | Possibly the 1966 Western movie Starring Marlon Brando. (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_297
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Forest Program | KXLY-TV (VHS)
      Container: Object AV_049
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Gaylord Carter at the Organ; Lili Marlene and Glow Worm | 45 RPM recordings of organist Gaylord Carter (45 Record)
      Container: Object AV_449
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Gaylord Carter at the Organ; Ting-a-Ling/Moon Winks | 45 RPM recordings of organist Gaylord Carter (45 Record)
      Container: Object AV_450
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: H20 and Blossom Time in Washington | "Blossom Time in Washington State" - 16mm sound kodachrome - division of progress and industry development. Olympic, Washington. Print #4. Damage to this print has made it necessary to replace the beginning and ending sections with new film. Please watch the frame line. (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_344
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Mary Astor Film | Erroneously spliced intertitles in bag (35mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_451
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: MM3 Matty Malneck and His Band | Castle Films, Division of United World films, Inc. (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_335
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: MM4 Buddy Rich and His Band | Castle Films, Division of United World films, Inc. (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_336
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Raymond Bungards Nitrate Film Snippets Reel 1 | 2 16mm films in a metal container - no description listed (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_453 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: 173 | [no description] (8mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_267
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Court Street | [no description] (8mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_270
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Game Farm | [no description] (8mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_271
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Golf Course | [no description] (8mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_272
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Home - Also Cramor and Marietta | [no description] (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_348
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Keystone Toronado | [no description] (VHS)
      Container: Object AV_051
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Nice - Its Canals T23 | [no description] (8mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_273
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: No Title - Possibly San Francisco during World Word II | [no description] (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_349
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Norm Rex | [no description] (Reel-to-Reel)
      Container: Object AV_215
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Paderewski plays Minuet and Moonlight Sonata, Piastra #3, Emanuel Feuermann | [no description] (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_327
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Shirley | [no description] (8mm film)
      Container: Object AV_275 et al
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: The Art that Binds | [no description] (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_326
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Unlabeled | [no description] (8mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_268
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Unlabeled | [no description] (Audiocassette Tape)
      Container: Object AV_249
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Washington | [no description] (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_342
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials
    • Description: Washington Wonderland | [no description] (16mm Film)
      Container: Object AV_345
      Location: IFC Audiovisual Materials

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