Original format: 16mm, color, silent (transferred from Digital Betacam copy) Silent footage of Seattle Fire Department firefighter recruit training. Shots include firefighters riding on a fire truck with a SFD logo around industrial buildings, arriving outside the J.P. Ruddy & Company building (423 S Horton Street S), setting up hoses, carrying equipment up stairs, putting …

Original format: 16mm, color, silent (transferred from Digital Betacam copy) Silent footage of the Seattle Fire Department responding to a fire. Shots include fire trucks leaving the downtown station, firefighters fighting fire, and victims of fire in blankets with warm drinks at the fire station. Item 887, Record Series 2801-11, Seattle Fire Department Moving Images

Original format: 16mm, black & white, silent (transferred from Digital Betacam copy) Silent footage recorded during the Seattle Fire Department’s 1964 recruit graduation ceremony. Shots include the interior of a fire station with a group of graduating recruits in uniform seated in front of guests. Mayor Gordon Clinton and Fire Chief Gordon Vickery each give …

Original format: 16mm, black & white, silent (transferred from Digital Betacam copy) Silent footage of the dedication ceremony for the Seattle Fire Department Station 22 (located at Broadway East and East Roanoke Street). Footage includes hots of exterior and interior of fire station including Fire Engine 22 and firefighting equipment. City Councilmember Ray L. Eckmann …

Original format: 16mm, black & white, silent (transferred from Digital Betacam copy) Footage recorded by the Seattle Fire Department for use in a television spot to recruit firefighters. Shots include a classroom scene with six recruits and a teacher at blackboard with a cameraperson filming in the background; various shots of a firetruck with the …

Original format: 16mm, color, silent (transferred from Digital Betacam copy) Silent footage featuring the groundbreaking for the Sanislo Elementary School in the South Delridge neighborhood on February 6, 1970. The school was named for longtime West Seattle resident Stephen E. Sanislo (March 20, 1962), a 54-year veteran of the Seattle Fire Department. Captain Sanislo spent …

Original format: 16mm, color, silent (transferred from Digital Betacam copy) Footage of the Far Western Classic round of the “Put Up or Clam Up International Clam-Eating Contest” outside of Fire Station 5, located next to Ivar’s Acres of Clams (1001 Alaskan Way Pier 54), on the Seattle waterfront. Ivar’s can be seen in the background. …