Footage digitized from the Mount St. Helens Eruption Aftermath Films (FV341:008), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries. Detailed description of this item is as follows:
Mount St. Helens venting; officers speaking to individuals in cars; [0:01:30] reporter interviewing man in car; cars driving past officer; [0:02:10] reporter interviewing deputy; woman asking for entry to road to gather belongings; man asking for pass to get through; child filling containers with ash; cars stopped near Road Closed sign; group of people with cameras watching the ash cloud; [0:07:05] man recounts seeing and feeling the eruption; group of firefighters and others discussing people who refuse to leave the area; sheriff vehicles and Road Closed signs on snowy road in Skamania County; wide shot of landscape; people photographing the mountain; footage of closed road; people looking at plume; people looking at information on Mount St. Helens in a museum; close-up of seismograph station; aerial footage of ash plume; sign on closed road reading "Closed area keep out, Penalty one year in jail and/or $1000 fine"; footage of road while people in background make car noises and laugh; people with binoculars and cameras sitting beside their cars and watching; footage of river and mountain with plume; aerial footage of farm communities; aerial footage of ash cloud over mountain; small stream obstructed by logs and debris; woman taking samples from stream; [0:24:09] news reporter interviewing researchers about the samples they are collecting; scenes from a lumber yard; aerial view of river; two people unwinding cable as they walk in the snow; person digging in snow to set up seismograph; close-up of seismograph reading; researchers recording data; van labeled “University of Puget Sound”; close-up of plume from mountain.
