Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and the "Southern Cross" at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland
- AM54-S4-: Air P12.2
- Item
- [between 1928 and 1930]
Part of Major Matthews collection
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Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and the "Southern Cross" at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Six of the "Flying Seven" in front of a rocket]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Sky hawks [film to tape transfers, tape #1]
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is one inch film to tape tranfer of raw footage shot for the one hour television network documentary "Flight of the Sky Hawks : 20th Anniversary." The film features Canada's military parachute team, the Sky Hawks. Footage is silent.
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is raw footage shot for a one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's Military Parachute Team, the Sky Hawks. Original camera source tape 1. Includes footage of an airplane taking off and then footage taken from inside an airplane of the pilots and crew and of equipment being dropped out the back of the airplane attached to parachutes.
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is raw footage shot for a one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's Military parachute team, the Sky hawks. Pilot Captain Marc Roberts delivers various takes of an anti-drug message in both English and French. Includes footage of the Sky hawks team members interacting with the public, as well as several takes of a group anti-drug message delivered in both English and French, footage ends with team members sleeping on the airplane.
Original camera source tape 19.
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is raw footage shot for a one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's Military parachute team, the Sky hawks. Original camera source tape 2. Video includes shots of men in an air hangar wearing camouflage and carrying equipment, checking parachutes and receiving instructions. Also shows men on an airplane ready and waiting to jump out. Ambient noise recorded.
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is raw footage shot for a one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's military parachute team, the Sky hawks. Includes footage of military men running at dawn, an airplane taking off, men with parachutes and helmets getting on an airplane, men and supplies parachuting to the ground in military green, and the Sky hawks performing sky diving feats with smoke, and parachuting to the ground, some formation parachuting, a wind sock, a man on a horse followed by a bus, the cockpit of an airplane filmed as the airplane takes off and once it is in the air, cockpit controls and pilots. Original camera source tape 27.
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is raw footage shot for a one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's Military Parachute Team, the Sky Hawks.Video contains footage of men in camouflage in an airplane getting ready to jump out and then exiting the plane. Also includeds interviews with Darryl [rank?] and with Colonel Holmes about the Canadian airborne pathfinders. Original camera source tape 3.
Snowbirds - TV special - Moose Jaw - 20th reunion
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is original camera tape footage taken for the one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's aerobatic team, the Snowbirds. Includes the continuation of the interview with former Snowbird pilot and team lead Yogi Kuyghebaert [?] (1975?), interview with George Miller Snowbirds Team Leader (1973?), who also talks about his experience as a pilot with the former aerobatic flying team the Golden Hawks (to 1964) and about the Golden Hawks in general, the final interview is with Colonel O.B. Philp, affectionately known as 'Obie', who was responsible for starting the Snowbirds demonstration team, He talks about traveling with the [Golden] Centennaires in 1967 and how the Snowbirds got started.
Snowbirds - TV special - Moose Jaw - 20th reunion
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is original camera tape footage taken for the one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's aerobatic team, the Snowbirds. Includes footage of the conclusion for O.B. Philp's [affectionately known as Obie] speech at the 20th anniversary Snowbirds reunion banquet in Moose Jaw, S.K. in 1990, some shots of the audience listening and reacting to the speech. O.B. Philp then presents a poem about the Snowbirds, which is read by Major Dan Dempsey. Bill Johnson joins O.B. Philp at the podium and they present a copy of their book about the Snowbirds to Major Dan Dempsey, then Dempsey presents O.B. Philps with a stained glass piece. Footage continues with an interview with outgoing Snowbirds Team Lead Major Dan Dempsey.
Snowbirds - TV special - Moose Jaw - 20th reunion
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is original camera tape footage taken for the one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's aerobatic team, the Snowbirds. Includes footage of the Snowbirds alumni reunion which took place in October of 1990 in Moose Jaw, S.K. People checking in to the event and signing the guest book. Ambient noise. Interviews with [Al?] an American air show organizer, a former Snowbird pilot (1983-1984), and Yogi Kuyghebaert [?] a former Snowbirds pilot (interview continues on MI-431).
Snowbirds - TV special - Moose Jaw - 20th reunion
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is original camera tape footage taken for the one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's aerobatic team, the Snowbirds. Includes footage of Snowbirds pilots and mechanics congratulating each other after a performance, spectators, a military band and a ceremony to welcome new Snowbirds team members and bid farewell to departing ones, tape ends with mingling after the ceremony between families, Snowbirds alumni, Snowbirds team members and military personnel.
Snowbirds - TV special - Moose Jaw - 20th reunion
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is original camera tape footage taken for the one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's aerobatic team, the Snowbirds. Includes an interview with Snowbirds Team Lead Stephan, an interview Dennis [?] and another Snowbirds team member in 1981-1982 and Team Lead from 1987-1988, an interview with a pilot [Bill] who is a fan of the Snowbirds but not a member of the Snowbirds, he talks about the skill of the Snowbirds pilots and comments on how other pilots view the skill displayed in the Snowbirds' show, ends with banquet scenes from the 20th anniversary celebration of the Snowbirds in Moose Jaw, S.K., including speeches, presentations and the audience clapping and listening.
Snowbirds - Venez Voler Avec Nous [come fly with us], English with French subtitles
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Film is a theatrical short produced for the 20th Anniversary of the Canadian Forces Air Demonstration Squadron, "The Snowbirds." This version has french narration, french credits, and french subtitles.
Yaletown Productions obtained distribution for the film across Canada; it played in theatres as a short before the Demi Moore feature film "Mortal Thoughts" (1991).
Produced by Yaletown Productions for the Department of National Defense. Music by Steven Vitali.
Snowbirds: Come fly with us [English]
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Film was a theatrical short produced for the 20th Anniversary of the Canadian Forces Air Demonstration Squadron, The Snowbirds. Yaletown Productions obtained distribution for the film across Canada; it played in theatres as a short before the Demi Moore feature film "Mortal Thoughts" (1991).
Produced by Yaletown Productions for the Department of National Defense, Canada. Music by Steven Vitali.
Head and shoulders portrait
Studio portrait
Head and shoulders portrait
Head and shoulders portrait
Head and shoulders portrait
Group portrait in front of the entrance to the City of Vancouver Administration Building - Airport and Seaplane Harbour
Photograph probably taken at the launching of an airplane from the Boeing plant.
Item is an autographed photograph showing Canada's first women pilot's club, The Flying Seven, at Sea Island Airport. Pictured (L-R): Jean Pike, Tosca Trasolini, Mrs. E. Flahery, Alma Gilbert, Elianne Roberge (President), Margaret Fane, Rolie Moore.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Group portrait in front of a bi-plane showing (left to right): Miss Tosca Trasolini, Mrs. Alma Gilbert, Miss Jean Pike, Mrs. Elizabeth (Betsy) Flaherty, Miss Margaret Fane, Miss Rolie Moore (Mrs. Barratt) and Miss Elianne Roberge
Those magnificent snowbirds - The first 20 years
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
Item is a copy of "Canada's magnificent snowbirds - 20th Anniversary" one hour television network documentary featuring Canada's aerobatic team, the Snowbirds. The documentary begins with an overall set up of a child wanting to grow up to be a Snowbird pilot. The story of the Snowbirds begins with try outs for four new Snowbirds pilots and moves on to the history of aerobatic flight teams in Canada. Using a mix of narration, interviews and historical footage the history of the Snowbirds is laid out and then the narration moves into practice, training and the designing of the new airshow routine for the 1991, 20th Anniversary, season. Leaving the training base in Moose Jaw, S.K. the Snowbirds team travels to Comox, B.C. for an airshow. The documentary continues with an overview of the role of the Snowbirds and their goals on their public relations and air show role. Themes touch on why the Snowbirds have lasted as long as they have and why they will continue on into the future. In addition to shots of crowds and performances two airshow promoters from the USA are interviewed. Back in Moose Jaw at the end of the 1991 season there is a reunion of alumni pilots. The documentary ends with a final performance of the 20th season and a child on a beach inspired to someday be a Snowbird pilot. Narrated by Leslie Neilsen. Cassette version edited from D-2. This is the superless cassette version - no blacks or bumpers.
Trans-Canada Airline [cockpit]
[U.S. Civil Air Patrol Cadets being greeted at the Vancouver Airport]
[U.S. Civil Air Patrol Cadets being greeted at the Vancouver Airport]
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item consists of a motion picture film containing Fox Movietone Newsreel footage of the opening of the Sea Island airport in Vancouver. The footage begins with a man prop-starting a small plane. Some shots of a group of men standing next to the plane are followed by the plane taxiing on the runway (VH-UPS on the side). Another shot of the same group of men [possibly including Mayor L.D. Taylor?] is followed by a cockpit shot of the pilot in the plane. Shots of the hanger and terminal building are followed by an unidentified speaker addressing the audience with a microphone and a brass band behind him.
Fox Movietone News
William A. Straith [at the controls of a Farman Pusher Biplane]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[William (Billy) M. Stark's aviator license with head and shoulders portrait]
Part of Major Matthews collection
William M. Stark [at the controls of a Curtiss Exhibition-Type Pusher Biplane at Minoru Park]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[William Stark in plane fitted with pontoons on Coal Harbour]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[William Stark in plane fitted with pontoons on Coal Harbour]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Wing Commander Donald R. MacLaren and an unidentified officer]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Studio portrait