In Oil We Trust (1980)

Excerpt from Alaska Review 38. In this segment, Alaska Review reports on the state's budget surplus, where the oil revenue will go, and what will happen if and when Alaska's oil resources run out. The permanent fund and permanent fund dividends are discussed. Those interviewed include: unidentified people-on-the-street interviewees; Alaska Governor Jay Hammond; State Representative Dick Randolph of Fairbanks; Robert Hartig of Commonwealth North; Ross Schaff, state geologist; Tom Williams, revenue commissioner; Don Bell of the Alaska Loggers Association; State Representative Terry Gardiner; and Jim Edenso, Alaska's bottomfish coordinator in Juneau (Color/Sound/2-inch quad videotape).

Airing from 1976 to 1987, Alaska Review was the first statewide public affairs television program in Alaska. The show was designed to explore public policy issues confronting Alaska, and to assist citizens in making decisions about the future of their land. Produced by Independent Public Television, Inc., (IPTV), the series eventually consisted of 16 one-hour shows, 46 half-hour shows, and one three-hour special broadcast. Funded through the Alaska Humanities Forum and State of Alaska, the series won multiple awards for public service and educational programming. IPTV dissolved in 1988. Videotapes for all finished productions and raw footage were later moved to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), where they became housed with the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives department in the Rasmuson Library at UAF, shortly after the unit was founded in 1993. The Alaska Film Archives is currently seeking funding to preserve and digitize all of the original full interviews gathered in the making of the Alaska Review series. Copies of finished productions are also held by Alaska State Library Historical Collections in Juneau. For more information, please contact the Alaska Film Archives at University of Alaska Fairbanks.

This sequence contains excerpts from AAF-4983 from the Alaska Review collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more information please contact the Alaska Film Archives.

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