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Most lovely country: British Columbia
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is an educational/informational motion picture film presented by Imperial Oil as a tribute to British Columbia on its centennial. The film uses historical re-enactment, stock footage, original footage, and voice-over narration to tells the st...
Imperial Oil Company
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 pl...
Fox Movietone News
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a color film which details the steps involved in constructing the Lions Gate Bridge (First Narrows Bridge) across the First Narrows of the Burrard Inlet (Vancouver, B.C.) in 1937 and 1938. The film, which appears to be professionally produ...
Seen enroute England to Vancouver April 1928
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
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 pr...
Adam, Joseph Cowan
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Film is a travelogue showcasing scenery, attractions and industry in the Vancouver area. Film contains general and aerial views of Vancouver, plus sequences of the harbour, Vancouver International Airport, Stanley Park, UBC, the Vancouver Internat...
![Seens [scenes] of Van[couver], Capilano, Stanley Park](/uploads/r/null/1/3/b/13bc9013786c37378f12ed8a438df461807fab1a389b9e9c2896f171e1c9e03f/b640bf28-47ef-404b-9944-eeb4bd5eeda9-2012-033_142.jpg)
Seens [scenes] of Van[couver], Capilano, Stanley Park
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
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 ...
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Mt. Seens [scenes], Grouse Mt., etc.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
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.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
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.
Stock, Fraser Canyon, Big Bend Road, Oak Bay, dog's home
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
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, Por...
![1) Howe Sound Cruise 2) [Grand Coulee Dam Construction] - SF/Golden Gate 3) Van Streets Pre-Royal...](/uploads/r/null/c/3/c/c3c817e4e62691cabc1e0625451afdcf9bc92e39d7d64d6603dfa99bf84ea84a/b8ba05ff-8100-4e8f-84ac-0b3b240b61ae-2013-062_142.jpg)
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film containing footage of the Howe Sound cruise ship leaving the Burrard Inlet harbour in downtown Vancouver, the Marine Building, Hotel Vancouver, a cruise ship passing by Lighthouse Park and docking in Howe Sound, Britannia Beach, the...
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Silver Lodge Colour - Dogs/Cats/Kids [B&W]
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film containing both black and white and colour footage. Colour portion of film shows rural area, a body of water with tugboat and barge, horse back riding at the Silver Lodge Riding Academy and candid shots of people on horses. Black an...
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Vancouver on parade [Pacific National Exhibition parade, 1936]
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is an amateur film showing the 1936 Jubilee Pacific National Exhibition parade. Film contains footage of the Burrard Bridge, Stanley Park, an RCMP musical ride at near Jericho Beach, Vancouver Fire Department stunt with the firetruck ladder.
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Item is a film containing highlights of British Columbia's centennial year in Vancouver. Includes shots of an antique car parade, a tall ship at dock, naval vessels, street decorations in Vancouver, Chinese Freemasons parade (with drill team,...
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Item is a film containing part 3 of We Drivers. The film opens with the Inter-title: "Having said goodbye to the cowboys, we go to the Arrow Lakes." Film contains footage showing the sternwheeler S.S. "Minto", Nakusp, scenes of...
Horse races and Shetland Ponies, Virginia and Family
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Item is a film containing footage of a pageant, people riding horses and ponies, the Capilano Suspension Bridge and surrounding area, the Capilano River valley and surrounding trails, orchestra at Malkin Bowl, a picnic, children playing in backyar...
Westminster Bridge - Oliver, Patullo Bridge - Lions Gate
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Item is a film containing footage of a rural farm area, children playing, Boy Scouts, baseball in a field, a truck laying asphalt onto the road, Pattullo Bridge construction and completion, the New Westminster waterfront, Vancouver skyline from St...
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Item is a film containing home movie sequences including children playing in a sandbox (the girl is Colette Roy), front lawn of 3846 West 10th Avenue with road and cars in the background and children playing on the lawn with a dog.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film showing scenes in a rural area including a man with a cat and a structure with First Nations carvings.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
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.
B.C. Peat, Stanley Park, Indian River, Airport
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
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 Gat...
Cat, piano, labour site and crew
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
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...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film that begins with a title card: "Noel B. Daniels presents Stadium Grandstand Show." The film likely takes place at Empire Stadium. The film shows various performances on a stage in the field, and on the track around the fie...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film containing home movie sequences separated by title cards. The film shows footage of horses on a farm in Abbotsford, zebras and horses on a farm in Richmond, people drinking, laughing and dancing in a wood paneled living room in Abbo...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film containing part 2 of We Drivers. Film contains footage of North Vancouver, a picnic at Horseshoe Bay, Howe Sound, road from Marine Drive to Grouse Mountain, Grouse Mountain highway and Chalet, the gate to Grouse Mountain; the view f...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a documentary film documenting a street demonstration in Vancouver in July 1981 protesting the screening of the sexually explicit feature film Caligula in a conventional movie house (not a pornographic establishment). The film includes foo...
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Item is a documentary film documenting Stanley Park, downtown Vancouver, the Vancouver Planetarium, and Vanier Park. The film documents a number of attractions within Stanley Park including the Stanley Park Miniature Railway, Stanley Park Junction...
VanDusen Gardens, Gastown - Vancouver, B.C.
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Item is a documentary film documenting the VanDusen Botanical Display Garden, as well as tourist attractions and businesses in Gastown. Film documents areas of the VanDusen Garden including the parking lot, administration building, main entrance, ...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a documentary film documenting views of Vancouver and a number of tourist attractions. Film includes footage of the Vancouver skyline from the False Creek area looking north, the Vancouver Harbour Centre, the Vancouver Planetarium with cr...
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Item is a documentary film documenting prominent buildings in downtown Vancouver on and around Granville Street, Burrard Street, Georgia Street, and Robson Square. These buildings include the Marine Building, Provincial Court House, Hotel Vancouve...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a documentary film documenting downtown Vancouver at night and is mostly made up of footage of neon and illuminated electric signs on Granville Street and in Chinatown. The film documents Granville Street at night, with crowds on the sidew...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a documentary film documenting bridges, Vancouver Harbour, the Stanley Park (B.C.) seawall, and maritime traffic around Vancouver. The film includes footage of False Creek, the Granville (Street) Bridge (3rd, 1954-), the Burrard Bridge (19...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a documentary film documenting sports, wildlife, and tourist attractions in Stanley Park (B.C.). Film documents people cycling on the seawall by Coal Harbour, playing golf at the Stanley Park Pitch & Putt Golf course, playing tennis at...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a documentary film documenting views and tourist attractions at Stanley Park (B.C). Film documents the Brockton Point Lighthouse, the south end of the Lions Gate (First Narrows) Bridge (1932-) with heavy vehicle traffic, the exterior of th...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a documentary film documenting the Bloedel Conservatory and the gardens at Queen Elizabeth Park. The film includes footage of flowers and people walking through gardens, standing on a footbridge, taking photographs, and waiting in line out...
Alaskan Scenery and the Chinese Exhibit at Vancouver's Golden Jubilee
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a moving image/film documenting a Chinese performance at Vancouver's Golden Jubilee celebration that includes a theatrical stage show, a trapeze artist, and moving images of the Chinese Arch erected at Pender Street near Carrall Stree...
UBC Sculptures and Totem Poles and the Caledonian Games
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Item is an amateur film documenting sculptures at the UBC campus, including George Norris' "Mother and Child," Haida and Kwakiutl totem poles at the corner of University Blvd. and East Mall, and Charles Wheeler's "King Geo...
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Item is an amateur film documenting the 1958 Vancouver RCMP Musical Ride. It contains footage of police on horses perfoming in formation at Hastings Park racetrack in front of an RCMP conducted band and a crowd. Houses in the Hastings-Sunrise area...
PNE Parade - Start of the RCMP Musical Ride
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Item is an amateur film documenting the 1958 Vancouver Pacific National Exhibition Parade and British Columbia scenery. The film begins with footage of floats in the P.N.E parade. Identified floats and performers include the train from Montreal t...
![Coqu[itlam] Lake Okanagan and [Myra] Canyon [and] Start of PNE Parade](/uploads/r/null/1/1/1112485/ca49643c-a1aa-46ae-8d67-bd06a99adb84-V00200_142.jpg)
Coqu[itlam] Lake Okanagan and [Myra] Canyon [and] Start of PNE Parade
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is an amateur film documenting the 1958 Vancouver Pacific National Exhibition Parade and British Columbia scenery. The film begins with footage probably taken from a Kettle Valley Railroad train going through the Okanagan. The film ends with ...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is an amateur film documenting the Callister Exhibition Park Rodeo of 1944. The film contains footage of riders in events such as steer decorating, wild cow milking, bronk riding, steer riding, bareback riding and wild horse racing. Judge H...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is an amateur film documenting Vancouver and Vancouver Island. Film contains images of ski lifts; mountain scenery; cruise ships; the ferry ride to Vancouver Island; Victoria Inner Harbour and the BC Parliament Buildings; Butchart Gardens, pa...
1953 Edition of "Stars on Ice" featuring Sonja Henie
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is an amateur film documenting the Vancouver Skating Club's 1953 production of "Stars on Ice" featuring Sonja Henie. Other featured skaters include: Elaine Dawson, Diane Henderson, Jeanne and Thornton Opie, Jocelyn and Rothero ...
1858-1958 Centenary Vancouver BC
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Item is an amateur film documenting early and present-day Vancouver. This film contains footage of the Second Narrows Highway Bridge collapse, construction of the Deas Island Tunnel and Woodward's Oakridge Shopping Centre, as well as footage ...
Jack Cullen Films - Owl Theatre
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Item is a film reel containing segments of the "Owl Prowl" show improvised by Jack Cullen for KVOS television in Bellingham, Washington. In these segments, Cullen introduces the evening's film and does commercials for the show'...
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Jack Cullen Films - [Owl Theatre]
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film reel containing segments of the "Owl Prowl" show improvised by Jack Cullen for KVOS television in Bellingham, Washington. In these segments, Cullen introduces the night's film and does commercials for the show's ...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a documentary film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid ...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a motion picture film produced for local Vancouver garages, which discusses issues related to automobile maintenance. The film depicts tune-up procedures, discussing each step while illustrating it on screen. Included are scenes of a car o...
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item consists of a motion picture film depicting a trip around the waterfront of Vancouver from the Second Narrows Bridge to the Lions Gate Bridge at the First Narrows. The focus of the film is on vessels in the harbour, shots of notable landmark...
Wade, Thomas F.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item consists of part of a motion picture film which depicts the history of Vancouver. The production is an amateur film in four parts. The history of Vancouver is told through a series of filmed photo stills, ?borrowed? film footage from other so...
Cooke, Larry
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item consists of part of a motion picture film which depicts the history of Vancouver. The production is an amateur film in four parts. The history of Vancouver is told through a series of filmed photo stills, ?borrowed? film footage from other so...
Cooke, Larry