Footage digitized from the Mount St. Helens Eruption Aftermath Films (FV341:002), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries. Detailed description of this item is as follows:
Views of enormous ash cloud emerging from Mount St. Helens during an eruption with helicopters circling - possibly the eruption of May 18, 1980; views of ash cloud on the horizon; view of Portland city skyline with ash cloud; aerial views of mountain, river and crater; [0:09:15] man commenting on the current status of the crater and dome; more shots of the crater from different angles; aerial view of Mount St. Helens surrounded by ash plume; aerial view of river; various angles of zoomed-in shots of plume; shots of the mountain and venting crater from ground and air; shots of landscape, crater and plume from the air; [0:28:08] inaudible chatter between pilots in helicopter.
