Palin believes that the stoic man on-screen from :24-:35 is Stan Spiegle, a DJ with KXRO Radio in Grays Harbor County. This unidentified man is thought to be local radio DJ Stan Spiegle Here are a few of the clips with unusual histories or notable stars, along with some background information, courtesy of Palin. “It helps our current experience if we can see how we were in the past.”Įach of the roughly 50 clips contains its own back story, and some of those stories are still being uncovered today. “You capture people, behavior, customs, and the environment, and it’s actually moving,” she said. The newsreel footage, originally shown before full-length feature films, depicts a sense of time and place that resonates nearly a century later, said Hannah Palin, film archives specialist with Libraries Special Collections. Browse the collection for a few minutes, and you’ll see footage of a shipwreck, log-rolling contests, baseball games, an ice cream social, picnics and more. The 45-minutes of film that inspired the documentary keeps the past alive on the Libraries Special Collections website, offering short clips of events big and small. “Grays Harbor Happenings” looks at life before the Great Depression in this bustling coastal town.
We ran an article in the latest issue of Columns about a UW-produced documentary centering around newsreel footage that peeled back the curtain on life in 1920s Grays Harbor County. This man, thought to be radio DJ Stan Spiegle, appears in the the newsreel footage that sheds a light on Grays Harbor County history.
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