Arthur Goodwin films, 1926-1942
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Overview of the Collection
- Filmmaker
- Goodwin, Arthur Eliot
- Title
- Arthur Goodwin films
- Dates
- 1926-1942 (inclusive)19261942
- Quantity
- 39 reels (7,322 feet) : silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
- Collection Number
- PH0835
- Summary
- Films documenting business operations at Goodwin's Dry Ice, Oil and CO2 drilling businesses, Goodwin family trips to various parts of the world
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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The original films are not accessible due to preservation concerns. Viewing copies are available and arrangements can be made to view the film by contacting the Visual Materials Curator.
- Languages
- English
Biographical Note
Arthur Goodwin was one of the founders of Seattle's Pike Place Market and the presiding executive of Seattle public market system during the first half of the twentieth century. He also served as a consultant to large public markets within the United States and Canada.
Arthur Goodwin was born in New York City on June 4, 1887. He came to Seattle in February, 1907, and became a bookkeeper at the Goodwin Real Estate Company, which had been established by his uncle, Frank Goodwin. In 1915 he became assistant manager of the Public Market and Department Store Company, of Seattle, later being promoted to manager. In 1912 he was secretary of the Seattle Real Estate Association, and a member of the Seattle Appraisal Board. In 1925, with a few associates, Goodwin bought out his Uncle Frank's interest in the Pike Place Market; they paid approximately three quarters of a million dollars for the holdings of the Public Market and Department Stores Company, the Economy and the Municipal market properties, which were combined to form the Pike Place Public Markets, Inc.
In 1929 he published the book Markets, Public and Private: Their Establishment and Administration. Companies founded or co-founded by Goodwin included the Fulton Petroleum Company, incorporated in Delaware in 1928, operating in the Pondera petroleum area of Montana; the Rotary Bread Stores Company, incorporated 1918; and the Carbon Dioxide and Chemical Company (later known as Carbon Dioxice), incorporated in Delaware in 1929, which operated in connection with the Fulton Fuel Gas Company, at Grand Junction County, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Farnham Dome and Wellington, Utah. Goodwin became president of this company. He served as chairman of the advisory board of the Portland Public Market, Portland, Oregon.
Goodwin's civic activities included membership in numerous fraternal orders. He was also a member of the Washington National Guard and received his honorable discharge in November 1918. Goodwin belonged to the Press Club, the Repertory Playhouse (later the Seattle Repertory Theater), of which he served as a co-founder and president; the Japan Society, of which he was a charter member; and the Washington Athletic and Broadmoor Golf clubs, all of Seattle.
In Seattle on October 24, 1911, Goodwin married Caroline Frances Boulton; their daughter, Ann Elizabeth Goodwin was born Jul 28, 1919. Arthur Goodwin left Seattle in 1941, when he sold his remaining market stock and moved to Salt Lake City. He died in the mid-1950s.
Content Description
Films documenting business operations at Goodwin's Dry Ice, Oil and CO2 drilling businesses; in Drilling for Gas & Oil at Milk River , significant individuals include Blackfeet tribal chiefs such as Chief John Two Guns White Calf, possibly a model for the face on the Indian head, or buffalo nickel, as well as Senator Thomas J. Walsh, a central figure in the investigation of the "Teapot Dome" oil leasing scandal. Films of Goodwin's family travels show Cuba circa 1926; the San Francisco World's Fair in 1939; Hawaii circa 1928; Scenes at Lake Louise in Banff, Alberta, Canada circa 1928; Sumatra, 1936; Carribbean scenes in Jamaica, the Bahamas, Curaçao, and Haiti, circa 1937 and 1941. In Washington State, Goodwin's home movies show the Goodwin family lodge at Snoqualmie Pass, Camp Four Winds in the San Juan Islands, St. Nicholas School in Seattle, and Goodwin's home on Madison Street, Seattle. The home movies document celebrations and entertaining related to the Goodwin family, such as a 1935 Christmas party, magic shows, a Shriner's parade, and children's parties. The collection also includes five commercially made films circa 1927-1941; of these, significant features include a silent comedy starring Johnny Arthur, 1927; a film about golf champion Bobby Jones, 1927; and newsreel footage of the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack, 1941.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact the Special Collections division of the University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative Information
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Description: Carbon Dioxice1 reel (410 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Arid, hilly landscape. Man standing next to pipe in ground. View shifts from man to landscape. Image of Dioxice logo: a polar bear standing atop a cube marked 'dry ice'. Text above reads: "Dioxice/Colder than the North Pole/Carbon gas/Carbon dioxice Chemical Co." The logo appears to be on a sign behind glass.
Dates: circa 1928-1936Container: Reel 1, Item 1 -
Description: Pay Gravel1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Field operations and a visit by Goodwin to gold mining operations at the Bellevue Mining Company in Oroville, California.
Subtitles in the film refer to the region's history of gold mining.
Dates: 1934Container: Reel 2, Item 2 -
Description: Mining Story1 reel (300 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Long text crawl describing the discovery of gold in California, gold deposits in the region, and mining activities. The Bellevue Mine in Oroville, California is mentioned.
Dates: 1934Container: Reel 3, Item 3 -
Description: Oil Wells, Glimpse of Plant #11 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Oil and CO2drilling, field operations, dry ice manufacturing activities, and scenes of Goodwin observing in Wellington, Utah. Signs reading "Goodwin Avenue" and "Carbon Dioxice Plant No. 2". Workers sawing blocks of dry ice in preparation for shipment.
Dates: 1935Container: Reel 4, Item 4 -
Description: Drilling for Gas & Oil at Milk River - The Fulton Blackfeet Oil Company1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Drilling for gas and oil in Montana. Tribal chiefs of the Blackfeet Indians. Man identified as "Chief Two-Gun-White-Calf whose profile adorns the buffalo nickels." Blackfoot tribal settlement near or in Browning, Montana. Senator Thomas J. Walsh, who led the panel charged with investigating the 1922 "Teapot Dome" oil leasing scandal.
Dates: 1936Container: Reel 5, Item 5 -
Description: CO2Drilling1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Goodwin and other company directors. Map of Farnham Dome. Man using pole-mounted telephone in the field. Oil well site, camp scenes. Title cards describing return on investment.
Dates: 1936Container: Reel 6, Item 6 -
Description: Refinery at Alberta1 reel (300 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Main street of the town of Shelby, Alberta. The Maple Leaf Refinery at Coutts, Alberta. View of oil fields in Huntington Beach, California. Oil well "George F. Getty No. 13" on fire in Santa Fe Springs, California. Field operations.
Dates: circa 1936Container: Reel 7, Item 7 -
Description: Grand Junction Oil Fields1 reel (350 feet) : silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
The town of Grand Junction, Colorado. Oil workers with machinery and trucks.
Dates: circa 1936, 1945, 1948Container: Reel 8, Item 8 -
Description: Fulton Fuel and Gas, Garmesa1 reel (10 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Drilling for natural gas. Downtown Grand Junction, Colorado.
Dates: circa 1939Container: Reel 9, Item 9 -
Description: Marketville1 reel (40 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm
Courtyard. Building with "Marketville" on front in red letters. Patio table and awning reading "Huggins-Young Coffee". A building marked "Farmers Market." People seated at tables.
Dates: circa 1941Container: Reel 10, Item 10
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Travels, circa 1927-1944
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Description: Havana1 reel (100 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Footage shot by Goodwin intermixed with commercial film produced by the Cunard Company. Scenic views of the port, town square, city, and "The Prada." "From this same vantage point, with a turn of the head, the Prada leads us to the new capitol, surrounded by a growing magnificence." Buildings, Central Park Square, busy streets. Uniformed traffic policeman. Colonnade. Memorial to victims of theMaine. Garden, courtyard. More buildings. Statue of dancing nudes. Palm trees. Man riding donkey.
Dates: circa 1926Container: Reel 11, Item 11 -
Description: San Francisco, 1939 World's Fair, Friends of Ours
Goodwin, Joe Desimone, and family visit San Francisco Exposition. Buildings, performances. Small boats on a waterway. Illuminated fountain.
Title cards: "Friends of ours". Garden party, people performing on stage.Young women in flapper dresses parade in garden. Goodwin and children on a push scooter. People and dog in garden.
Original1 reel (425 feet) : silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Dates: circa 1927, 1939Container: Viewcopy VC91, Item 12 -
Description: Honolulu1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Footage shot by Goodwin intermixed with commercial film. Scenes of tourist attractions and other activities in Hawaii.
Dates: circa 1928Container: Reel 13, Item 13 -
Description: Our Trip to Honolulu1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Footage shot by Goodwin intermixed with commercial film. Scenes of Goodwin, family, and friends aboard cruise ship. Tourist attractions and other activities in Hawaii. Surfers and beachgoers. Outrigger canoes.
Dates: circa 1928Container: Reel 14, Item 14 -
Description: Hula Hula1 reel (150 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Women perform hula dances.
Dates: circa 1928Container: Reel 15, Item 15 -
Description: Kauai1 reel (300 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Footage shot by Goodwin intermixed with commercial film. Scenic views of Kauai and other areas. A market in which Goodwin may have had business interests.
Dates: circa 1928, 1941Container: Reel 16, Item 16 -
Description: Banff, Lake Louise1 reel (125 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
People observing scenic views, Lake Louise, and wildlife in Banff, Alberta.
Dates: circa 1928Container: Reel 17, Item 17 -
Description: Sumatra: Folk Festival1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Festival activities held in colonial Indonesia. People participating in sack races and similar games. Construction of a rice paddy. Laborers planting trees in field.
Dates: 1936Container: Reel 18, Item 18 -
Description: Jamaica Reel #11 reel (200 feet) : silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Tourist attractions, street scenes, historic buildings in Jamaica, Nassau, Curacao, and Haiti.
Dates: circa 1937Container: Reel 19, Item 19 -
Description: Mountain Lodge
Family, and friends drive to Goodwin's mountain lodge in Snoqualmie Pass. Visit to a fish hatchery. Town of Snoqualmie. Goodwin and his family catching fish, hiking.
Original1 reel (410 feet) : silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Dates: 1939-1944Container: Viewcopy VC115, Item 20 -
Description: Jamaica Reel #21 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm
Goodwin and woman on beach. Horse race and observers. Market.
Dates: 1941Container: Reel 21, Item 21
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Home Movies, circa 1926-1946
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Description: Party, Magic Trick1 reel (25 feet) : silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Performances on the stage in Goodwin's home.
Dates: 1926, 1935Container: Reel 22, Item 22 -
Description: Hawaii, Ann Elizabeth, Madison Street House1 reel (900 feet) : silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Scenes from a vacation trip to Hawaii. Home movies of parties held for Goodwin's daughter, Ann Elizabeth, including images of her impersonating historical figures. Activities at Camp Four Winds in the San Juan islands, Washington. Ann Elizabeth holding tea party for friends.
1 reel consisting of 3 smaller reels spliced together by lab in 2008.
Dates: 1928, 1936, 1941Container: Reel 23, Item 23 -
Description: Home Movie with Couple and Friend
People pose and joke for camera, trying on different hats and clothing.
Original1 reel (150 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Dates: 1928Container: Viewcopy VC91, Item 24 -
Description: Magic Tricks: Graham, Uncle Art1 reel (150 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Empty stage with painted backdrop in the Goodwin home. Arthur Goodwin walks on stage carrying a cane; he wears a tuxedo and gloves. Goodwin and a young relative perform magic tricks on his home stage.
Dates: 1928Container: Reel 25, Item 25 -
Description: Scene of children1 reel (2 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
A group of children. Some hold balloons. A woman wearing a hat stands with them.
Dates: 1928Container: Reel 26, Item 26 -
Description: Hall of Fame / 1935 Xmas
Performances at Goodwin's home; performers use the stage inside the house. Scenes from 1935 Christmas party.
Guests include Mary Lewis, "the Metropolitan Opera Star and Myron Jacobson"; Richard Bonelli, "the sensational Metropolitan Opera baritone"; "Max Dolin - violin virtuoso"; and 'Babe' Beamer of Hilo performing the hula. Other members of the Beamer family sing and play guitar and ukulele. Other guests perform a play on stage.
Original1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Dates: circa 1932-1935Container: Viewcopy VC115, Item 27 -
Description: St. Nicholas School Graduation1 reel (30 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Graduation scenes in Seattle. Exterior of the brick building that is the former home of St. Nicholas School and the Cornish College of the Arts.
Dates: 1933Container: Reel 28, Item 28 -
Description: Dancing Woman1 reel (12 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Woman in a two-piece outfit and headdress or scarf dances in front of a painted backdrop on the stage at the Goodwin house. A man watching from the side; he appears to be holding a drink.
Dates: 1935Container: Reel 29, Item 29 -
Description: Float Plane, Utah desert1 reel (50 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Scenes of a float plane and people on a pier. Rock formations in Utah.
Dates: 1935Container: Reel 30, Item 30 -
Description: Shriner Parade1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Large Shriners parade in downtown Seattle, with participants in costume, horses, floats with cartoon characters, and a customized car. Goodwin wearing a fez.
Dates: 1935Container: Reel 31, Item 31 -
Description: Home Scenes1 reel (40 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Interior of Goodwin home; shots of rooms and furniture. Table with fruit bowl, china cabinet. Arthur Goodwin seated at desk, wearing glasses, smoking cigar. Painting or drawing of a lake and mountain. Musical trio performing; piano, clarinet, drums. Large garden.
Dates: 1936Container: Reel 32, Item 32 -
Description: Family Album / Farnham Carbon Dioxice / Pacific Paradise1 reel (800 feet) : silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
People in gardens, in front of houses, at a dinner party and other locations. Boys on a raft. Smiling groups of people. Man and kids playing badminton. Smiling people and family group. Child in rabbit costume. Child, man, woman outside car. Shots of family groups and children. Three tipis outside a large building.
Workers with drilling equipment at Farnham Dome, Utah. Four men wearing gas masks. Dry ice exhibition, demonstration, and handling. Uses of dry ice in consumer goods.
Waikiki Beach, tourism, leisure activities with Goodwin, family and friends.
This reel consists of three separate films spliced together by a film lab.
Dates: 1936-1941Container: Reel 33, Item 33 -
Description: Madison Street House, Garden, Interiors
Ann Elizabeth Goodwin, man and woman in garden. Furniture inside Goodwin's home. Dinner party scenes. Friends, family at parties inside house, socializing in garden, playing badminton.
Original1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white and color ; 16mm
Dates: circa 1936-1946Container: Viewcopy VC91, Item 34
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Films Not Made By Goodwin, circa 1927-1941
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Description: My Stars1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Silent comedy starring Johnny Arthur, satirizing the leading men of Hollywood films, such as Rudolph Valentino, Harold Lloyd and Douglas Fairbanks.
Commercial film.
Dates: 1927Container: Reel 35, Item 35 -
Description: Bobbie Jones, Nat'l Golf Champion1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Georgia-born, Harvard educated champion golfer Bobby Jones hitting balls on the course. Title cards describe various techniques.
Commercial film.
Dates: 1927Container: Reel 36, Item 36 -
Description: Eagle Catch, Snake Fight1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Scenes of animals fighting and man taking fledgling from nest.
Commercial film.
Dates: 1932-1933Container: Reel 37, Item 37 -
Description: On the Floor of the Atlantic1 reel (300 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Man wearing a diving helmet walks on the ocean floor and battles a large fish.
Commercial film.
Dates: 1939Container: Reel 38, Item 38 -
Description: The News Parade1 reel (400 feet) : silent, black and white ; 16mm
Aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack. Wounded people, damaged buildings, emergency evacuation activities.Young men lined up to enlist. Bombing of U-boat. President Roosevelt.
Castle Films newsreel.
Dates: 1941Container: Reel 39, Item 39
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