- AM1487-F03-: 2012-033.08
- Item
- [ca. 1952]
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 showing scenes in a rural area including a man with a cat and a structure with First Nations carvings.
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 a boulder into water.
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 and white portion shows a residential area (possibly Vancouver), kids and young men playing catch in the backyard, woman feeding treats to cats and a dog doing tricks, Hastings street showing various hotels and retail buildings, the BC Electric building, the Carnegie Library, playground with people on teeter-totters and swings (probably in Stanley Park), grizzly bears at the zoo (probably Stanley Park, the entrance to the Stanley Park Causeway and Vancouver City Hall.
Family movies from 1928 - early roll - Ruby, Chris, Kay - wedding, Valleen etc.
Part of George Thompson fonds
Item is a film consisting of several amateur films that have been spliced together. Footage documents the life of the George and Ruby (nee Wood) Thompson family from approximately 1928-1961. The film includes footage of significant family events such as the couple’s courtship, engagement and 1930 wedding, bringing home their baby daughter Valleen, and Christmas celebrations and holiday meals. Film also includes footage of numerous family scenes and subjects such as playing at the beach, picnicking, swimming, the family’s houses and pets, daughters Valleen and Hellene, and George and Ruby tending to and riding horses.
Film also includes footage of Vancouver attractions, including the Thompsons skiing and playing in the snow at Grouse Mountain circa 1928, and visiting the Stanley Park ornamental gardens and zoo in the 1930s.
The order of the stock date years of the films is as follows: 1929, 1926, 1928, 1939, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1945, 1959, 1955, 1946, 1961, 1948 and 1947.
Children and animals [at Aberthau] in garden
Item is an amateur film documenting Diana, Victor Vance, and John Fife Spencer with pets, including a dog, cats, and a rabbit, in the gardens of their home at 1750 Trimble Street in Vancouver.
1st [first] effort children and cats
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Film shows children playing with a cat on the front porch of a two-story house, an Econ-o-Wash laundromat business at 3071, children playing in puddles and outdoors. The short film ends with a woman taking a photograph aimed at the movie camera.
Gabriel, Margaret (nee Kruger)
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
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.
Misc. shots, original, EF and ECO M. Collier
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
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.
M. Collier - Calgary trip summer 72 - orig[inal] ECO
Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds
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].
Christmas 1975, Christmas 1976
Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection
Item is a film showing a family celebrating Christmas. Film contains scenes with children unwrapping presents, playing Twister and board games, women preparing food, kittens playing, a dachshund puppy playing, a child getting a haircut in the bathroom, and Christmas decorations. The film ends with footage of school children participating in running races, potato sack races, relay races, and three-legged races on school grounds.