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Item is a film showing dark footage of tall ships and boats, multiple bands performing on an outdoor stage, people serving and preparing food, group of people in front of Sportsman Barbershop at 3144 W. Broadway.

Item is a film showing an unidentified concert at the Malkin Bowl, smaller outdoor concert[s], concert audiences, a drum circle and various park scenes.

Item is a film showing two outdoor musical performances, police on horseback, candid shots of people in a residential neighbourhood on the street and in front of a house, people and children outside a wooded area jumping on a trampoline [possibly at Jericho].

Item is a film showing an outdoor musical performance, early painting stages of the Habitat Forum mural on Hangar #3, three men driving a horse drawn cart around the Habitat Forum grounds.

Item is a film showing the Habitat Forum grounds, people posing with log used as part of the Habitat archway, views of the North Shore Mountains and Jericho dock, people walking along the beach, and two different outdoor concerts, one containing nudity.

Item is a videocassette containing the second half of Starry Night II, a benefit show at the Arts Club Theatre with proceeds that went to the Persons With AIDS Coalition. The show was hosted by Bill Monroe. Performers include Lelani Marrell, Aaron Shields performing choreography by Judith Marcuse, Anne Mortifee, Bruce Kellett, Gail Bowen, Rae Armour, Lynda Boyd, Robert McQueen, Jane Mortifee and Marcus Mosely.

Item is a videocassette containing the first half of Starry Night II, a benefit show at the Arts Club Theatre with proceeds that went to the Persons With AIDS Coalition. The show was hosted by Bill Monroe. Performers include Sister Lynn, Robbie King, Neils Petersen, the cast of Angry Housewives, Kendra, the Melloyds, and the Vancouver Men's Chorus.

Item is a videocassette containing a recording of the Rainy City Gay Men's Chorus production of Christmas in the Tropics. Video opens with a title card with the text "Amazing Video Productions, Vancouver, B.C., and Jim DeYoung wish to thank Heather Harding and the Rainy City Gay Men's Chorus for the opportunity to video and present this to show you all." The video then pans over the event poster before the recording of the show begins. The show also includes songs performed by the Vancouver Women's Chorus.

Item is a videocassette containing a recording of the first half of the Cranbrook AIDS Benefit '94 hosted by Bill Monroe from the Key Theatre on December 1st, 1994. The recording begins with a title and credits and was presented by Shaw Cable 11. Performers include the K.C. Singers, Valdy, Shari Ulrich, Marcus Mosely, Denis Simpson and Sibel Thrasher. Speaker include Reverend Neil Gray, Leila Cooper-Heck and Svend Robinson. The video also contains footage showing Rene Newhouse interviewing Valdy and Mike Patterson at the reception.

Item is a videocassette containing a recording of the second half of the Cranbrook AIDS Benefit '94 hosted by Bill Monroe from the Key Theatre on December 1st, 1994. The recording was presented by Shaw Cable 11. Performers and speakers include Marcus Mosely, Denis Simpson, Sibel Thrasher, The Sibelettes [Barbara, Tina and Linda], Alex Keating, Brent Carver, Rene Newhouse, and Mike Patterson. The video also contains footage showing guests mingling at the reception and Rene Newhouse interviewing Bill Monroe and Leila Cooper-Heck.

Item is an amateur film documenting a performance by the Silver Spring Blue Grass Band at the 1975 Vancouver International Stone Symposium in VanDusen Gardens. The film contains footage a crowd of people watching a concert being given on an earthen mound at the symposium site, people talking, and a phototographer taking pictures of the people and musicians.

Item is a documentary film documenting Vancouver's parks in 1940. This film names Vancouver the "Playground City of the North West" and contains footage of Stanley Park, Connaught Park, Douglas Park, Devonshire Park, Shaughnessy Park, Memorial West Park, Memorial South Park, Almond Park, Hastings Community Park, Grandview Park, Trout Lake, Queen Elizabeth Park, Tatlow Park, Thornton Park, Hadden Park, Burrard View Park, Maple Grove Park, Sunset Nursery, Victory Square Park, Beaver Lake Park as well as Vancouver's beaches including English Bay, Kitsilano Beach, Second Beach, Spanish Banks and Locarno Beach. The film also features Stanley Park including footage of typical scenes at the entrance and causeway, the Administration Offices of the parks system, primeval forest scenes, blossom time in the rockeries and gardens, Lost Lagoon, Prospect Point, Lions Gate Bridge, the totem poles and a view of Stanley park from afar. As well, the film documents the locations of the free swimming classes provided by Vancouver Sun newspaper at Lumberman's Arch Pool, Kitsilano Pool, New Brighton Pool and Maple Grove Pool. Vancouver's playgrounds are also documented with footage of children playing in the playgrounds at Memorial South Playground, Norquay Playground, Robson Playground and McLean Playground. In addition, this film documents a variety of recreational activities that take place in Vancouver's parks including swimming, sunbathing, boating, diving, folk dancing, tennis, golfing (at Fraser Golf Course), walking, lawn bowling, horse-shoe pitching, model yacht racing, cricket, playing games, enjoying the park's fauna and flora (in both summer and autumn), picnicking and having BBQs. Special events such as symphonies, Dress-up Day, the Annual Sandbox Contest, and the annual Soap-box Derby are also documented.