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[Hydro Power for Vancouver] = Tributary to Vancouver

Item number (ISN):

134888

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1916

Item number (ISN):

134888

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Type of material:

Moving images

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

AUSTRALIA. NATIONAL FILM & SOUND ARCHIVE

Accession:

1989-0320

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1916

Production company:

Essanay Company ?

Sponsor:

Dominion Water Power Branch ?

Description:

Technical film about water power development at Lake Buntzen and Slave Lake, providing electrical energy for the Fraser Valley. It begins with a foreword by Justice Holmes. Footage shows: power house, second half in course of construction - August 1916; main storage at Slave Lake; Buntzen Lake; and Coquitlam Lake; government engineers measuring discharge; and an engineer opening his tool kit. Intertitles include artists' renderings of power plants, water falls and other features. Some of the intertitles read: "Vancouver is now supplied with power by two companies"; "The plant of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company"; and "The Pioneer Hydro-Electric development on the Pacific Coast generates (October 1916) 85,000 horse power."

Language:

Silent

Original number:

Rack No. FA 678

Notes:

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1. There is no Essanay logo or other identifying markings, but this is likely the film TRIBUARY TO VANCOUVER, in the series WATER POWERS FOR CANADA or WATER POWERS OF WESTERN CANADA, sponsored by the Dominion Water Power Branch, and made by the Essanay Company. ~2. Listed as film No. 2 in List of Motion Pictures Produced by the Exhibits and Publicity Bureau, complete to March 1, 1920, p. 3, without the heading SEEING CANADA (may later have been distributed under the SEEING CANADA series.~3. Listed as film No. 2 in Catalogue of Motion Pictures Produced by the Exhibits and Publicity Bureau, complete to April 1, 1921.~4. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2011-10-0002

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

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To be Determined / À déterminer

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