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Item is an educational film about the beet sugar industry in Alberta. It includes an animation illustrating the growth of sugar beets. The film follows the full year cycle of researching and preparing for, planting, harvesting and processing sugar beets.

Item is an educational film featuring Nancy Anderson of the University of California, Berkley interviewing Dr. Thomas Jukes. Dr. Jukes argues that sugar is a safe food and is being incorrectly attacked. Produced for Nutritive Sweetener Council.

Item is a documentary film entitled "Energy Packed: the Story of Cane Sugar," presented by B.C. Sugar Refining Company and directed/produced by Lloyd Stump. The film, originally shot in 1975, documents the process by which consumer sugar products, such as white sugar, brown sugar, syrup, sugar cubes, and sucrose, are made, starting from the growth and harvest of sugar cane and ending with the packaging of final products.

Item is a documentary that describes sugar beet farming and harvesting for the manufacture and production of granulated sugar. The film was produced in cooperation with Manitoba Sugar.

Item contains a compendium of several promotional and celebratory videos produced for and about BC Sugar by Northwest Productions and West Two Productions. The first, One hundred years: 1890-1990: BC Sugar (00:00-16:45) is an overview and celebration of one hundred years of BC Sugar operations. The video details the company's investments in the chemical industry and natural gas. Includes interviews with BC Sugar staff including Peter Cherniavsky and Bill Brown and a clip of Martin Rogers talking to school children. Features pans of several still images and sugar production and packaging machinery in operation.

The second, BC Sugar "Financial 1990," (18:07-34:02), highlights the financial successes of BC Sugar over its first one hundred years. It uses some of the same footage as One hundred years: 1890-1990: BC Sugar. Video includes footage of Rick Sales interviewing Peter Cherniavsky and Bill Brown. Video was researched and written by R and S Investment management Ltd. and produced by West Two Productions. The third short video, BC Sugar "Museum" (35:08-53:09) details the process of both sugar cane and beet sugar refining along with the history of BC Sugar.

Item is an educational film documenting the farming, harvesting and refining of the Canadian sugar beet for the production of sugar.

Item is an industrial film produced for the Manitoba Beet Growers Association and the Manitoba Sugar Company Limited. The film documents the sugar beet farming process in Manitoba, its harvest, transport, sugar processing and manufacturing. Focus is given to farming technology, the various extraction stages in the sugar factory, and the many uses for sugar in diets and the food industry. Photography by M.J. Sym and D. Campbell.

Item is a film containing footage of a tractor tilling, preparing, and thinning sugar beets.

Item is a film documenting a tractor tilling, preparing, and planting sugar beets. The film also contains panning shots of the farm and individual workers preparing the crop with their hands.

Item is a film documenting beet seed sowing equipment as six seeds per meter are planted into the soil. The film shows a monozentra precision drill sowing a naked chalked seed, followed by a palm precision drill sowing a naked chalked seed, then a monozentra precision drill sowing a pelleted seed and finally a palm precision drill sowing a pelleted seed. Film shows the process in both slow motion and at standard speed.

Item is an instructional film presented by the Fruit Growers of the Okanagan and Kootenay Valleys of British Columbia. The film uses sugar from the Canadian Sugar Factories. Dorothy Britton demonstrates canning BC peaches. The film is narrated by Don Cameron. Other individuals involved include: K.L. Johnson (direction), A. Jones (cinematography), V. Spooner (cinematography) and K. Cutler (editing).

Item is an industrial film presented by the Canadian Sugar Factories Company. The film documents the agricultural process of beet plantation and sugar beet extraction and manufacturing processes. Locations appear to be at farms in BC, and at a sugar factory in Alberta. Individuals involved include: Rod Parkhurst (camera), Rick Allen (lighting), Lou Williams (lighting), Paul Abram (grip), A.L. Lazenby (script), Al Jordan (narration), Tom Ashdown (animation) and Lloyd Strump (producer/director). Original reel also contains 59 seconds of "Summer sunshine for winter menus" at beginning of reel.

Item is a documentary film entitled "…one lump or two…," presented by the B.C. Sugar Refining Company and produced by Lew Parry. The film, produced most likely in the 1950s, documents the process by which consumer sugar products, such as granulated sugar, golden sugar, syrup, icing sugar, and sugar cubes, are made, starting from the growth and harvest of sugar cane and ending with the packaging of final products. The restaurant scenes were filmed at the Cock 'n' Bull restaurant in Vancouver (B.C.).

Item is a silent film entitled "The Picture-Story of Sugar as related by Vancouver's Own Sugar Refinery" which documents the process by which consumer sugar products, including sugar, icing sugar, sugar cubes, and golden syrup, are made, starting from the growth and harvest of sugar cane and ending with the packaging of final products. The documentary closes with examples of domestic uses of sugar.

Item is a film produced on behalf of the Australian sugar industry. The film focuses on nutrition, the manufacturing of sugar, and the contentious health benefits of sugar consumption.

Item is a silent film believed to be outtakes from a Rogers Golden Syrup commercial. The film captures cans of syrup moving along a conveyor belt, bags of sugar in transport, boxing of sugar cubes, bagging of sugar, and an assortment of B.C. Sugar products on a shelf.

Item is a television advertisement for Rogers' Golden Syrup featuring Robert Italo (Bob) Lenarduzzi.

Item is a videotape containing a three part series where Metromedia News reporter Dick Krantz reports on aspartame, with the focus on potential health side-effects. Other individuals shown in the segments include: Gloria Gibson, Maury Povich, Dr. Sanford Miller, Dr. John Olney, Dr. Daniel Arzanoff, Dr. Richard Wurtman, Dr. Adrian Gross and Dr. Woodrow Monte.

Item is a videotape showing a dramatized documentary that focuses on "busting myths" about sugar and is set in a school classroom. The videotape was commissioned by The Sugar Association, Inc. and was filmed in New York. Actors appearing in the film include: Amy Anderson, Marcy DeNezza, James Doyle, Judi French, Beverly Larson, Amanda Saslow, Julie Saslow, Stacia Sobieski, Jason Seglin, Cara Starling and Regan Wertberger. Other individuals shown include: Dr. Walter Glinsman, Dr. Harvey Anderson, Dr. Kenneth Lee, Dr, William Bennett, Dr. Henry Maccaro, Dr. Steven Stellman, John Doherty, Ardith Baker and Charlie Farro. Individuals involved in the production include: David Bressen (producer), John Mulholland (writer) and Muriel Balash (director).

Item is a film containing an advertisement for Manitoba sugar. Film contains shots making icing, icing a cake in a kitchen, and sugar bags.

Item is a silent film entitled "The Story of Sugar Beet Production in British Columbia," which documents the process involved in sowing and harvesting sugar beet seeds. The film contains descriptive intertitles to describe the process.

Item is a film produced by the British Sugar Bureau about nutrition with an emphasis on sugar and carbohydrates. Individuals involved include: Dr. A.C. Frazer (nutritional advisor), H. Bernard Hawley (nutritional advisor), Ivan Pattison (production assistant), Terence Twigg (editor), John Hawksworth (music), Wolfgang Suschitzky (photography), Anthony Gilkinson Associates (production consultants) and Sarah Erulkar (writer/director).

Item is a film showing a fire in the field north of the Ozama Sugar Co. mill. The mill is visible in the background.

Item consists of a home movie documenting a journey from England to Vancouver. The route of travel was from Southampton, across the Atlantic to New York City, through northern Ontario and the town of White River, along Lake Superior, across the prairies, and finally through Fraser Canyon, BC. Each section is introduced and explained by title cards. The film includes shots of the RMS Homeric and the RMS Aquitania in Southampton port, the Statue of Liberty, the New York City skyline, landscape footage of Ontario, the prairies, Fraser Canyon, and the Cisco Bridges.

Item is a videocassette transfer copy of a 1938 amateur motion picture film depicting a year retrospective for 1938 for the Adam family. The film depicts the family's new house (5689 Angus Drive, W. 40th Ave); travelled on the RMS Queen Mary from New York City to Southampton, England; prepared their yacht for the season; went on holiday to Qualicum Beach, Montague Harbour, and Deep Bay; moved into their new house; and had a baby.

The film also includes local events: construction of the Lion?s Gate Bridge; CPR pier D after being destroyed by fire; burning of a local ice and cold storage plant along with the efforts of firefighters to extinguish the blaze. Other locations visible in the film include Pier 54 in New York, Coal Harbour, the Marine Building and the Royal Bank Building in Vancouver.

Item is a home movie which documents Stanley Park and the outer harbour of Vancouver. It pictures pedestrians in Stanley Park and on the sea wall, and various animal exhibits in the Stanley Park Zoo in early spring, and includes pan views of the lighthouse and North Vancouver from the Stanley Park sea wall, the collapsed 2nd Narrows Bridge in the harbour (collapsed June 1958) and Navy ships.

The film documents the April 23, 1952 United Grain Growers fire from different angles and a different fire on the North Shore near Lion's Gate Bridge. The film also shows scenes of Queen Elizabeth Park in Spring with views of over Vancouver. The film ends with an airforce aerial show from a view on the ground in a field and one of "Vancouver's last streetcars" giving free rides on the Hastings East Line on April 24, 1955.

Item is a home movie which pictures Lions Gate Bridge from the Stanley Park side, the view from Coal Harbour, and outdoor skating and tennis in Lost Lagoon and/or Beaver Lake in the wintertime. The second half features immigrants disembarking at Vancouver airport, exiting United Air Lines' customs and immigrations and taking photographs. Lew Parry's Steet Metal Worker's Local 280 float sculpture is briefly filmed.

Segment titles as indicated on the original film leader are: Stanley Park + Harbour; Winter Skates; Harry; Nov Mel + Party; New Immigrant Arrives in Van. airport; Jean Chin Poy Lin; Mrs Chin Hong + Mrs. Chiu; Nen + Bing Chin; Go See Yow and Poon's Goddaughter.

Item is a film which documents the Keefer Florist storefront and greenhouses. A gardener is filmed packaging plants and two women are filmed placing flowers on graves at Oceanview Cemetery (Burnaby). It appears to be an advertisement.

Item is a home movie of people eating and playing relay games at a barbeque and picnic at the Chinook Fish and Game Club. The last minute is of people at Kitsilano beach.

Item is a film is of a young woman holding two Chinese dolls, followed by long shots of decorative porcelain figurines in a house. Next, Marilyn Norgaard models with daffodils for a photographer. Two cards with a photograph of Norgaard read "Spring is here almost! Marilyn got into the spirit of it all and posed happily for Cameramam!"

Item is a film depicting a visit to Barkerville. It starts with an image of a wooden structure and a sign that explains that it is a recreation of the pumps used in Cornish tin mines.This is followed by El Dorado Placer Mine, operated by the Barkerville Advisory Committee of the provincial Parks Branch, in Barkerville Historic Town. Tourists are filmed panning in troughs of water and walking around the historic buildings. Inside the exhibits, wax figures have been set in domestic scenes. A crowd of people is filmed waiting to see Gold Fever at a building called the Theatre Royal. Inside, female dancers and a male musician are filmed performing on a stage.

Item is a home movie of a wedding. A bride and groom speak in front of what appear to be wedding presents. They are filmed leaving the house with the family while someone sets off fireworks before they all drive to the ceremony. Part of the ceremony in the church is filmed before the family is again pictured leaving and arriving at the reception hall. The bride and groom pose for photographs before the reception. There is a reception line followed by clips of speeches, dancing and socializing.

Item is a home movie depicting a Shriner parade. The camera person stands in the crowd while Shriner men march past in regiments and bands or ride on car floats. Hastings Street and the Patricia Hotel are identifiable.

Item is a home movie of two women holding a baby and opening gifts with baby clothes. Then the baby is shown as a toddler crawling around a carpet and playing with toys. Later the woman and child pose to be photographed in front of a Christmas tree and piano.

Item is a home movie of an engagement party and wedding. The film begins with people arriving at the engagement party and Chinese tea ceremony. The bride is filmed in her house and driving with her family to the church. The ceremony is filmed from above and behind. The family then travels to the reception hall where the bride and groom are photographed with their family. There is a reception line, speeches, and dancing.

Item is a home movie which documents the renovation of Keefer Florist Company building at 215 Keefer Street. It pictures the placement of the beams and walls, the cement flooring and ceiling, and the installation of window and lighting, followed by painting and paving of the exterior, and installation of the store sign,

Item is a film showing the inaugural journey of Lady Lynn, a small fishing boat. The boat is driven through Vancouver to the docks, where it is placed into the water. The film shows multiple fishing trips with friends and family to Deep Cove, Galiano Island, and other places likely in and around the Burrard Inlet. There is footage of travelling along the water north of Stanley Park, under the Lions Gate Bridge, passing by the light house at Brockton Point, and around the marine gas stations in Coal Harbour. There is also footage of the Mount Seymour Coffee Bar and the Galiano Lodge.

Item is a family film containing scenes of a family vacation throughout Alberta, including Jasper National Park, Edmonton, Calgary, Banff National Park and Lake Louise. The film also documents the construction at Keefer Wholesale Florist at 310 Prior Street. Pre-formed concrete slabs are lifted and tilted to make the walls of a building. The construction process also documents the various companies working on the building: Lift and Tilt Concrete, Delta Masonry, B.C. Conveying Machinery, Viking Automatic Sprinkler. The final section of the film shows the opening ceremony of Keefer Wholesale with people gathering, a band playing, speeches (silent), and dancing.

Item is a film showing P.N.E. parades and the P.N.E. grounds. The film contains footage of parade floats, cheerleaders, marching bands, Mounties and Shriners. The film also shows crowds gathered in downtown Vancouver, and features the surrounding buildings and landmarks, likely on Hastings Street. The film contains candid shots of the P.N.E. grounds including P.N.E. visitors boarding amusement park rides, participating in arcade games, eating at concession stands, looking at attractions and attending the horse races.

Item is a film showing the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal area including footage of construction at the terminal, cars loading on the ferry and the ferry departing from the terminal. The film also contains footage of people digging with shovels around a rural cabin property. There is also footage of docks and water, possibly at Porpoise Bay or Tillicum Bay.

Item is a film showing travel to the Las Vegas strip including hotels, casinos and desert. Film also contains air travel footage showing airport security, flight attendants serving beverages and aerial views of the US and San Francisco. Towards the end of the film, there is footage of the Vancouver Airport from the plane, and the arrivals terminal. The film ends with footage of the UBC Japanese Garden (Nitobe?) and parking lot.

Item is an amateur film which captures images of Vancouver in 1974 as the creator, Hans Sipma, rode his bicycle about the city. The ride begins near Semlin Dr. and 1st Ave. and proceeds north to Kitchener St., then turns left onto Garden Drive and continues to East Hastings. Some storefronts on East Hastings are briefly visible before the ride continues northbound on Nanaimo, with Crown Mountain and Mt. Fromme visible on the horizon. The ride proceeds north to Wall St., and then along Wall St. eastbound to the Second Narrows Bridge (now the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing).

Crossing into North Vancouver, the bike is directed westbound along Main, Cotton Dr., and Low Level Rd., where the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool substation is visible. The bike detours over the train tracks and onto Pier 94, capturing images of ships, cranes, and lumber piles before continuing west via Esplanade Ave., Forbes Ave., and 3rd St. to Marine Drive. The ride then captures stills westbound along Marine Drive, passing Pemberton Ave. and Capilano Rd. before crossing Lions Gate Bridge back into Vancouver.

From the bridge, Mr. Sipma ventured up on a trail to Prospect Point before proceeding southbound on Stanley Park Dr., then catching another trail down to Third Beach. Along the seawall numerous people are seen walking, and the downtown skyline grows nearer. He proceeds past Second Beach Pool and captures several stills of Englesea Lodge. As he travels down the Seaside Bicycle Route, the Burrard Street Bridge can be seen in the background.

He makes his way up Beach Ave. before carrying his bicycle up a set of concrete stairs to the surface of Burrard Street Bridge, where he dodges those walking on the sidewalk as he rides southbound. He pauses briefly at the intersection of Burrard and Cornwall before riding southeast toward Granville Island. As he continues along the Seaside Bicycle Route, a great deal of construction can be seen along the south side waterfront of False Creek. There are glimpses of the north shore of False Creek. Mr. Sipma emerges from the trail and heads east, pausing briefly at Cambie and 2nd Ave. before heading along 1st Ave. He heads north up Quebec St. He then turns to head back home, heading down Main St., and then 1st Ave. via Terminal Ave until he hits Victoria Dr., from which he turns homebound into an alley just as the film runs out. During his ride, Mr. Sipma captures gas prices, buses, cars, stores, signs, city skylines and buildings, clothing, and much more in 1974 Vancouver.

Item is a film containing footage of buildings in a small town, close up shots of suited men, forested areas, women in a garden, women walking near shore (probably Oak Bay), dogs playing, picnic in forested area, man on horse, rural town area, Port Hope Tavern, a church, a cemetery and the Big bar ferry.

Item is a film containing footage of farmland with shacks, cows, and dirt roads, men and women standing next to a parked car by the water, people with cars in a rural area, and scenes with residents of a Doukhobor community.

Item is a film containing footage of scenes in rural areas, cranes with shovels excavating land, men tossing horseshoes, streets and signage in a U.S. border town, Grouse Mountain and forested areas.

Item is a film showing various scenes around Vancouver. The first half of this film documents a Gray Line Tours bus trip through Vancouver and second half contains scenes showing landmarks of Vancouver and surrounding areas. Film contains footage showing: Empress of Japan Figurehead in Stanley Park, U.B.C., Chinatown, Hotel Georgia, Lion's Gate Bridge, Court House, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Capilano Golf and Country Club, Prospect Point, Stanley Park, views of downtown and North Shore Mountains from Little Mountain, City Hall, sailboats in Burrard Inlet, and Swimmers at Kits Beach.

Item is a film containing footage of a woman playing with a cat, two women playing the piano, ocean waves, men working at an excavation site (most likely a mine), a worker using dynamite, a locomotive carrying bulldozed earth, and a truck emptying a boulder into water.

Item is a film containing footage of the BC peat plant construction in Delta, the Vancouver Airport featuring Lew Parry rocket structure, planes taking off and landing with North Shore Mountains in the background, scenes of Stanley Park, Lions Gate Bridge, Scenes from somewhere else outside Vancouver (Howe Sound?). Hikers walking through a river valley.

Item is a film containing home movie sequences including children playing with toys in front of a Christmas tree, family shots near a house, knitting, playing cards, backyard wading pool, and family in a park area.

Item is a film showing scenes in a rural area including a man with a cat and a structure with First Nations carvings.