Sigurd F. and Elizabeth Olson Papers, 1916-2003

Appendix 1: Film and Videorecordings List (VHA 920-VHA 925)

Call Number Description
VHA 920 The Last Canoe Trip, a documentary narrated by Robert E. Matteson, about a canoe trip taken with his children and a handicapped person. The trip includes meeting Elizabeth Olson, and some of the footage (circa 1980) that appears in Wilderness World of Sigurd Olson, circa 1992
VHA 924 Wilderness Canoe Country, a commercially-produced film about the preservation of the Quetico-Superior Region narrated by Paul Harvey. Photography is by Grant Halliday; direction by Sig Olson. Olson also appears in some footage. Copied from a film at the Minnesota Historical Society
VHA 921 The Wilderness World of Sigurd Olson, a commercially-produced video by Video Publishing, with footage and narration of Olson filmed about 1980, undated
VHA 923 Sigurd Olson series on Channel 6 (Ely), about the efforts of the Listening Point Foundation established by the Olson family to preserve the site, May 1999
VHA 922 Northern Lights: A Look at Minnesota Books and Writers, an interview with Olson biographer David Backes filmed at Listening Point, 1999
VHA 925 Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, 20th anniversary banquet at Northland College, April 23, 1992
AD 577 Untitled film of what seems to be outtakes from a film possibly related to Border Lakes Outfitting Company. Placard reads “Huskies for Winter Trips are here at Winton,” shots of dogs at a kennel, a woman in a store pointing to shelves with merchandise, a man by the water playing a stringed instrument and harmonica, a quick image of a canoe hanging in the rafters of a building, and shots of water plants