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Exploring Vancouver’s Chinatown
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A Vancouver School Board Production. Produced by Program Services, Media Services and Technology. Videotape: Randy Rotheisler. Music: Vancouver Chinese Music Association. Production Assistance: Carolyn Sullivan, Laara Ynea. Titles: Deb Rooney.
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1990 (Creation)
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1 videocassette (10 min., 57 sec.) : VHS, col., sd., stereo
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Item is an educational video produced by the Vancouver School Board for use with a textbook entitled ‘Exploring Vancouver’s Chinatown: A Resource Guide’. The film has no narration, but a background score with Chinese instruments, and scene noise in some places. It opens with footage of the sun rising over Chinatown from a rooftop vantage point. It lingers on vendors and storefronts preparing to open, a Tai Chi class in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden’s main pavilion, Tai Chi in a local park, scenes of residential streets, houses, schools, and playgrounds. The film includes footage of a variety of local businesses, such as a barbershop, an apothecary, a school, calligraphy, tailor, fire department, auto repair, and a newspaper printer. It concludes with footage of the musicians playing the background music and street scenes of the sun setting over Chinatown.
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Light scanlines at the bottom of the image run throughout.
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Copyright: Vancouver (B.C.). School Board; expiry: 2061
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