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Pure luck and a family's generosity have given us a treasure: a short clip of Charles A. Lindbergh's arrival and reception in Tucson on Sept. 23, 1927.

However, the clip, at www.dmairfield.com/flvs/lindbergh/lindbergh.html, is but a small slice of Tucson history filmed from about 1916 to the late 1920s by John Pheiffer. Watch it HERE

"He was my dad's stepfather," says Tucson contractor Les Wolf, who discovered eight reels filmed by Pheiffer after his widow — Wolf's grandmother — died in 1988.

"We opened a steamer trunk and inside was a camera, a projector and eight reels of film, stored in mothballs."

Wolf got a friend who knew how to operate the projector. Among the footage: the building of the Temple of Music and Art, which opened in 1927, and the first Tucson rodeo, held in 1925.

Wolf donated the camera and projector to the Arizona Historical Society and the film to the city archives — on the condition that video cassettes were made for the family and for Tucson television stations.

"We appreciate that people enjoy it," says Wolf, who revisits the films from time to time.