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Item is "Have Camera, Will Travel" with Art Brewer, assignment "Palau;" a one hour network television documentary shot and completed in High Definition in 2003. Broadcast first on NHK Japan. High Definition 59.94 1080i Digital Master textless version. HD Cam. Ch 1-2 Full Mix Stereo. - Ch 3-4 M&E Stereo. The film follows Brewer as he takes photographs for the travel magazine "Islands" in Palau. Palau is shot from the air, the water and on land - Art overcomes bad weather and illness to get the shots he wanted and he takes the time to share his process with the audience a little. The show also offers a brief history of Palau and a look into Palau culture. Broadcast first on NHK [Nippon H?s? Ky?kai; official English name: Japan Broadcasting Corporation] Japan. High Definition 59.94 1080i Digital Master textless version. HD Cam. Channel 1 full mix stereo left; channel 2 fill mix sterol right; channel 3 M&E stereo left; and channel 4 M&E stereo right. Facility: Post Digital Works Ltd. Nov. 8, 2002.

Item is a copy of an interview with Mike Collier for CBC Klahanie TV series regarding Collier's film "The Gift of Water." Separate sections of the interview are spliced together using unrelated footage.

Item is a Yaletown Productions demo tapes with segments from programs produced. Includes clips of previous productions including "A sense of wonder: Teaching elementary science," "Land above the trees," advertisements created for Vancouver Helicopters, [Alcan Aluminium Limited] or Trade: Securing Canada's Future, B.C. Hydro, SFU, Petro-Canada, and Expo 86. With the Yaletown Productions Inc. logo at the end of the tape.

Item is a series of short commercials for various companies including: Construction.com, IKEA, Cablecom, Panasonic, Chevron, Pepsi, and The Emmy awards on FOX. Directed by Reto Salimbeni.

Item is promotional material for "Belize - Rain Forest Expedition" (1995). This was a pilot for a television series for Discovery Channel. The series did not proceed. The video introduces Belize with shots of locals, then follows a group of scientists and archeologists into the Belize rainforest where they observe wildlife and discover Mayan ruins. Information about Belize, to supplement the narration, is interspersed at the bottom of the screen.

Item is promotional material for the television series "Weird Wheels" (2000). This was produced by Yaletown Entertainment as a promotional material for Life Network. The series was produced and 39 episodes completed and aired across North America. Video starts and ends with Weird Wheels animation. The cars featured include a wrought iron bug, a mobile phone (a mash up between a Chevy truck and phone booth), a hurse covered in buttons, a car for god when he comes to earth, a guitar motorcycle, and a shoe bicycle. The promotional short also visits an art car parade in San Francisco, CA.

Item is original sound element for the documentary "Everest - Climb for Hope." Includes sounds of trucks and other vehicles going by the hotel, thunder, wild sound, yelling, morning tea ritual (cameral role 11). Sounds to accompany men planning and looking at a map of Everest, team members joking and talking, team members being blessed in a ceremony, lining up for team photograph, (camera role 15). Was recorded along with cameral roles: 11, 15.

Item is raw camera footage shot for "Return of the Cold Warriors" a half hour television documentary about the history and closing of the last Canadian Military base in Germany. Footage shows jets landing, flying, taxiing and taking off. Footage includes shots of other buildings and air hangars. Also buildings and traffic at night, Footage was transferred from film to video before transfer to the archives; sprocket holes can be seen at times. At times there is a ring of shadow around the outer rim of the frame.

Item is a film made by Michael Collier in collaboration with the National Film Board [NFB] of Canada. The narrative follows a cross-country skier not prepared for an emergency situation and a snowmobiler who is prepared and able to keep himself comfortable until help arrives. The skier is rescued and treated for hypothermia by a group of cross-country skiers who are knowledgeable regarding proper first aid. Produced, directed and edited by Mike [Michael] Collier; cinematography Robert S. Rodvik and Ron Orieux; location sound recording Al Westa nd Larry Sutton; narration Stan Peters; music Griffither Gibson Productions, sound re-recording Barry P. Jones; snowmobiler Richard Hamilton; cross country skiers Mark Hopkins, Dr. Ian Taylor, Jeff Graham and Marilyn Graham; consultants Dr. John Hayward and Dr. Ian Taylor; special assistance Wilf Betcher and Provincial Park Branch, Mount Seymour; unit administrator Jennifer Torrance; executive producer John Taylor; "Winter Survival" A National Film Board of Canada Pacific Regional Production (1979).

Item includes copies of black and white footage gathered for the purpose of producing promotional videos for Expo 86. Video includes a copy of footage from 1902 of the train route in the Fraser Valley. "Fraser Canon - American Mutoscope and Biograph 1902," and "Empress of Japan and Construction of the Lion's Gate Bridge" [1937-1938] which includes footage of the bridge at various stages of completion. Some shots show workers while others are of men in suits playing around and admiring the view. Archival footage collected in 1985/86 for use in show created for the CP Pavillion, EXPO 86 by Yaletown Productions. Titled CP Queue Line Videotape. Original film was transferred to one inch video tape from various archives. In 1993 the one inch was transferred to Betacam SP.

Film was a wildlife/educational piece presented by B.C. Hydro and narrated by Tommy Tompkins. Produced and edited by Michael Collier. Film features footage of swelling rivers, many different flora as well as wild animals, and their young, in their natural habitats. Wildlife featured include: moose, deer, beaver, squirrels, muskrats, geese, groundhogs, loons, osprey, fish, black bears, owls, raccoons, gyrfalcons, eagles, mountain goats, foxes, lynx, a lynx kitten, cougar kittens, marmots, and grizzly bears. This copy is in better shape than MI-275, and has unique introductory narration and footage as well as other editing differences throughout slightly changing the footage used as well as the narration.

Item is a short independent film filmed, directed and edited by Michael Collier. The three actors are: Dennis MacDonald, Gary Killeen and Dave Ponsart. Film depicts three men who find some insulated wire in the ocean [at wreck beach], drag it into a pile, hitchhike to downtown Vancouver, and then travel around downtown dragging the wire on the sidewalk behind them. Eventually the wire is left to one man who drags it on his own for a while until he leaves it in the car of a man from whom he hitched a ride. Popular music soundtrack.

Item is a short independent film written and directed by Mike Collier. Photography by Mike Collier and Vic Thomas. Assistance in the making of the film provided by Alpha Cine, Intermedia, and Telesound. Film shows a man sleeping and dreaming of driving nails into various objects or simply smashing them with a hammer. When he wakes up he leaves home with his lunch bucket and then quickly returns for his hammer. Music soundtrack.

Item is a home movie. Footage consists of disjointed clips. Includes a short scene that looks to be from "Water Colours," a cat looking at a light bulb, a sped up drive through Stanley Park, a float plane, people at a beach, and a woman.

Item is a home movie. Includes footage of Michael Collier, women and small children [one of whom is Michael's son, Jason Collier], a cat, a prairie horizon and storm, a young black bear on the highway, a camp scene, [Jason Collier] and a woman near a river, the river, and more of [Jason].

Item is a home movie. Includes some outtakes and footage from Collier's independent student films: 'Wire' and 'Water Colours.' Also shows people hiking in the woods, crowds at the Strawberry Mountain Rock Festival, men making silly faces, a woman at the beach, a cat looking at a light bulb, a child swinging garbage cans hung from chains, people sitting in a river drinking and toking, marijuana plants.

Item contains various special effects for 'Water Colours,' 'Nail,' and the never completed 'Neon Madman' or 'Electric City' and perhaps effect for other films as well. Manipulation of light and colour.

Item is a home movie with some behind-the-scenes shots taken on Collier's worksites. Includes some footage used in the industrial film, "Winter Survival." Includes footage of two people playing tennis, men goofing around, people gardening, two girls running, Collier combing his hair.

Group portrait shows Calvert Simson and others

Photograph shows Calvert Simson in chair, his sister in the door and the gardener and his son

The man in the centre of the photograph with a laundry bag is William Nahanee. Four lumber vessels are in the background.

Photograph shows men in swim suits

Photograph shows Henry J. Newton, James McColl, Ainslie Mouat and F.W. Watson

Photograph shows Richard H. Alexander, Ainslie Mouatt, Henry J. Newton, Francis W. Watson and a small canon on the porch

Photograph shows a C.P.R. car loaded with lumber

Item is a photograph showing (L-R): W. Cuckow, H. J. Ferris, R. Doherty, J. Stevens, S. B. Birds, H. N. Odlin.

Photograph shows A.B. Cather, Sergeant F. Kennedy, Sergeant Major A.C. Bundy, R.O. Boult, C.H. Williams, W.R. Chandler, Captain J.R. Tite, William Croy, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Barwick and Bill Grant

Group portrait

Photograph shows Jake and Reinhard Hoffmeister and others

Photograph shows R.W. Purves on the right and others

Photograph shows J.M. Bowell seated at desk

Photograph shows 1) Sidney Williams, 2) Mr. Knox, 3) R. Parkinson and 4) Ernest Cleveland on the summit

Photograph shows Mr. Ford, J. Bass, J.P. Phelan, Mr. Petridge, G. Storey, Mr. Preston, J.J. Mackin, Stanley Henderson, Bob Benedict, Evelyn Smith, James S. Fagan, Mr. Heward, George Morrow, William Downie, Fred Sinclair, A.J. Dana, Graham Boston, Luke Moore, J.J. Mulhall and others

Photograph shows Maggie Pinkerton, Elizabeth Elliott (nee Pinkerton), Dawson H. Elliott and Mrs. Young

Photograph shows: Top row (L-R): J.P. Laird, Lottie M. Bowron, possibly Mr. Palmer, John Bowron, Elizabeth Bowron holding baby Eileen Bowron. Middle row (L-R): Marie Stone, unknown, Maggie Pinkerton, Dr. C.A. "Gus" Tunstall, Mrs. Laird. Bottom row (L-R): John "Jack" Pinkerton, Leicester A. Bonner, Ernest E. Bonner, Alice Tunstall, Kathleen Laird.

Photograph shows (left to right): A.E. Keeley, F.G. Crickmay, Ben J. Cornish and W.L. Keene