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BC Sugar Museum operational records

Series consists of records documenting the operations of the BC Sugar Museum.

The records include guest books, appointment books, 'thank-you' letters, samples of BC Sugar Museum promotional materials, some teaching materials for student groups, samples of forms for use in the museum and other related materials.

BC Sugar Museum

One hundred years: 1890-1990: BC 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.

Take one baby

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).

This is Manitoba 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.

Aspartame : The great sweet hope

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.

Sugar : Nature's sweetener

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).

Sunshine to sugar : The story of beet sugar

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.

1975 television advertising program : call on your sweetie sugar

Item is a film which contains several color commercials from B.C. Sugar Refining Company's 1975 television advertising campaign. According to the list accompanying the reel, the contained commercials are as follows: 1. Sugar - Sweetness - Manitoba Ending, :60; 2. Sugar - Birthday Cake - Manitoba Ending, :30; [3. Sugar - Sugar Daddy - Manitoba Ending, :30]; [4.] Sugar - Birthday Cake - Alberta Ending, :30; [5.] Sugar - Birthday Cake - B.C. Ending, :30; [6.] Sugar - Sweetness - Alberta Ending, :60. The third commercial was not included in the list, and the title has been supplied from a list accompanying a different reel with the same commercial. All six commercials feature the same backing song, "Call On Your Sweetie, Sugar," and depict family moments made better by sugar.

1975 television advertising program : call on your sweetie sugar

Item is a film which contains several color commercials from B.C. Sugar Refining Company's 1975 television advertising campaign. According to the list accompanying the reel, the contained commercials are as follows: 1. Sugar - "Sugar Daddy - B.C. Ending," :30; 2. Sugar - "Sugar Daddy - Alberta Ending," :30; 3. Sugar - "Sweetness - B.C. Ending," :60; 4. Sugar - "Birthday Cake - B.C. Ending," :30; 5. Rogers Golden Syrup - "Chicken Wingding," :30; 6. Rogers Golden Syrup - "Couple," :30. The sugar commercials feature the backing song "Call On Your Sweetie, Sugar," and depict family moments made better by sugar. The syrup commercials feature a number of recipes made with Rogers Golden Syrup.

Energy packed : the story of cane sugar

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.

Sugar : The energy food

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.

Summer sunshine for winter menus

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).

6 seed per meter

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.

Rogers Golden Syrup commercial

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.

The picture-story of sugar…

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.

One lump or two

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.).

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