Chattanooga History Films and Videos

Southern Railway 4501

16mm films digitized by Sam Hall - ChattanoogaHistory.com

16mm Film Compilation from the late 1970s

Step into a time machine courtesy of Chattanooga photographer John W. Baldwin, Jr. (1916-1994). Many of his 16mm films survived, including several featuring activities of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM).

Southern Railway 4501 became one of the world's most traveled, photographed, and celebrated steam locomotives.

Read about it at the TVRM website and schedule a ride! https://www.tvrail.com

Mid-1960s view of Eastgate Center

Produced by photographer John W. Baldwin. Donated by Tracy Knauss. Digitized by Sam Hall | ChattanoogaHistory.com

Hang Gliding | 1978

16mm film from photographer John W. Baldwin Donated by Tracy Knauss

8mm Downtown & Broad Street 1966

Courtesy of Grant Ashley

WDOD 1-16-1940

1953 Construction of W. M. Cline Co.

Dayton Blvd., Red Bank, TN

Lake Chickamauga - 1941

From 16mm by Walter M. Cline Jr. (shared by Cathy Cline) Fun in the sun on the newly formed reservoir.

Lovell Field - 1941

From 16mm by Walter M. Cline Jr. (shared by Cathy Cline) Military planes: Vultee BT-13 trainers, Brewster F2A Buffalo

1999 EPB 60th Anniversary

Don Welch of WTVC interviews Harold DePriest, President of EPB, and retiree Paul McMillan, who was one of EPB's first employees, having started with TEPCO in 1923.

Downtown in Motion 1975

Animated from 14 35mm film scans. Courtesy: Chattanooga Times Free Press, News Free Press Collection

Chattanooga Implosion 1992

From 35mm stills

Bessie Smith Strut - 1993

Hi8 camcorder

Nightfall 1993

Cameron Hill Apartments Fire

VHS captured and shared by Tommy Montgomery

1981 Red Bank High School Computer Class interviews

VHS transfer from Tommy Montgomery

Chattanooga, TN 1968 Scenes from "The Rain People"

The Rain People (1969) film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Leading players are Shirley Knight, James Caan and Robert Duvall, Scenes shot in Chattanooga during the Armed Forces Day Parade in 1968.

1973 Hixson High Chorus - Europe Trip

8mm filmed by Bruce Goss

AIR POLLUTION - What One City Did

Early 1970s locally produced documentary about Chattanooga, TN's efforts to reduce air pollution. Produced by WTCI-TV // Digitized by Sam Hall - ChattanoogaHistory.com Featuring: Mayor Ralph Kelley, Mayor Robert Kirk Walker, Alex Guerry, Dr. Marion Barnes, & young hip / cool emp…

Contemporary Views

EPB Christmas Windows - Tennessee Crossroads 2005

Christmas Windows featured at EPB's original location at Market & 6th.

Remembering: FixThisLight.com

My early web 'activism'.

Downtown Chattanooga - Compilation

Mavic 2 Pro drone views.

Visit to the Ruins of Harrison

Old Harrison Flyover

DJI Mavic 2 Pro

Market Street Bridge - Quarterly Inspection 9-20-20

Drone + timelapse - apartments construction downtown.

DJI Mavic 2 Pro

Falling Water Falls - Walden's Ridge, TN

Timelapse 2003 - Chattanooga

Captured frames from a webcam. Found on my PC (because I don't delete anything). Lots of changes noticeable since 2003/2004.

Other places

Charleston, SC Azalea Festival Parade

Charleston, SC Azalea Festival Parade. 16mm color film taken by Dr. Sam Hall & wife on a vacation across the South. The greatly deteriorated film was manually scanned and assembled frame by frame into this presentation.

Cold Mtn NC Timelapse

Created from almost 14,000 still shots from Fryingpan Mountain USFS Tower. Covers one year (Mid-June to Mid June)

16mm Film Compilation from the late 1970s

1973 Hixson High Chorus - Europe Trip

1957 New Smyrna Beach Sports car racing by Chattanooga's Walter M. Cline, Jr.

1941 Tour of Scottsboro, AL Restored from 16mm film

~1949 Views around Arab Alabama Restored from 16mm film