Alaskan Highway (BF Goodrich); Mt. Lassen National Park (Volcanic)

Creator: Guy Morrison

Complete Record: Alaskan Highway (BF Goodrich Company production): Winter shots of Alaska as the highway is opened, infomercial for BF Goodrich tires, engineering feat that only could be accomplished through the help of BF Goodrich, Alaska is vital to security of US, army built air fields and manned coastline preparing for war, Alaska is an "important American outpost", 1200 miles of new road from Fairbanks to Dawson Creek, shots of tractors and other equipment used to clear paths for roads, DOG sleds in the winter months, beautiful Alaskan scenery, 6 crews worked at the same time, working seven days a week, 6 months the job was completed, Alaskan Headquarters of the US Army, 1940's shots of Alaskan cities with military men walking the sidewalks, lumberjacks are seen in the forest cutting down trees, truck splashes through puddle of water, men wearing gas masks dig the dirt to prepare the road, workers are fed gruel, workers do their laundry Mt. Lassen National Park: Lassen Loop Highway, ranger pets and feeds deer near truck, Clark nutcracker bird, shot of Mt. Lassen, Brokeoff Mountain range, Bumpass Hell range, boiling water coming from the volcanic mounds, boiling water and steam coming from volcanic hole, Lake Helen, various shots of Brokeoff Mountain range, Lassen Crater, ranger walks along mountain path, sign reads "Devastated Area due to the 1915 eruptions of Lassen park, hot blasts and mud flows entirely denuded this area of all vegetation", man walks along huge crater created from volcano erupting (surreal looking), Lassen in the winter months, men herding sheep on horseback in the mountains, beautiful waterfall, Pumice Stone Mountain, Little Glass Mountain, Modoc Lava Bed, frozen river ice cave with men standing at the mouth of the cave