Arthur Goodwin films, 1926-1942

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.

Field operations and a visit by Goodwin to gold mining operations at the Bellevue Mining Company in Oroville, California.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The town of Grand Junction, Colorado. Oil workers with machinery and trucks.

Drilling for natural gas. Downtown Grand Junction, Colorado.

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.

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.

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.

Footage shot by Goodwin intermixed with commercial film. Scenes of tourist attractions and other activities in Hawaii.

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.

Women perform hula dances.

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.

People observing scenic views, Lake Louise, and wildlife in Banff, Alberta.

Festival activities held in colonial Indonesia. People participating in sack races and similar games. Construction of a rice paddy. Laborers planting trees in field.

Tourist attractions, street scenes, historic buildings in Jamaica, Nassau, Curacao, and Haiti.

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.

Goodwin and woman on beach. Horse race and observers. Market.

Performances on the stage in Goodwin's home.

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.

People pose and joke for camera, trying on different hats and clothing.

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.

A group of children. Some hold balloons. A woman wearing a hat stands with them.

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.

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.

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.

Scenes of a float plane and people on a pier. Rock formations in Utah.

Large Shriners parade in downtown Seattle, with participants in costume, horses, floats with cartoon characters, and a customized car. Goodwin wearing a fez.

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.

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.

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.

Silent comedy starring Johnny Arthur, satirizing the leading men of Hollywood films, such as Rudolph Valentino, Harold Lloyd and Douglas Fairbanks.

Georgia-born, Harvard educated champion golfer Bobby Jones hitting balls on the course. Title cards describe various techniques.

Scenes of animals fighting and man taking fledgling from nest.

Man wearing a diving helmet walks on the ocean floor and battles a large fish.

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.