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[Fishing Camp at Campbell River, Cannery at Stevenston, and Tugboats in Vancouver = British Columbia Trip]

Item number (ISN):

219274

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1938/1939

Item number (ISN):

219274

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

THIRKELL, F.W

Accession:

1979-0294

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1938/1939

Production company:

Ernest Johnson (Photographer)

Production credit:

photography, Ernest Johnson

Description:

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A fishing camp on the beach near Campbell River, Vancouver Island. Various scenes of tents, where families stay, and people posing in the tents. Three pans of a huge rainbow stretching across Discovery Passage with boats and white houses occasionally in the foreground. Man weighing a good-sized Tyee salmon. Family posing in their tent. Two sporty fellows posing and clowning in front of the Johnson car. Two boys posing and playing with a Tyee on the scales. Two men and a woman posing with a Tyee on the scales. Tents and campers at the top of the beach, various miscellaneous shots. Various shots of a dog chasing something in the water. Pan of tents and houses at the top of the beach. A floatplane taking off out in the bay. Tents, houses and beach. Packing up the trailer behind the black car preparatory to leaving for home. Boy posing on trailer. Shots of what is either Elk Falls near Campbell River or Englishman's River Falls near Parksville, and a bridge across the river.~At Stevenston Cannery: A Japanese fisherman and his family hanging their nets to dry, Home Oil tank in background. Nets drying and Japanese fishermen working on them, houses on stilts in background. White man sawing through a large driftwood log on the beach with a Swedish fiddle. Two Japanese kids on wharf between nets, Japanese woman mending net, pan down long rack of drying nets. Japanese woman walking down wharf. Houses on wharves with flowers in window boxes, vegetables in a rowboat, kids playing, laundry flapping, homes and wharves, nets and fishermen. Two men mending nets on wharf. Japanese kids playing. East Indian kids posing in a line.~Various shots of snow-covered mountains and clouds from a small plane.~Crowded tugboat wharves in Vancouver. Steam and smoke and fog all about - may be early morning or late evening. Men working with steel-wire rope winch, others standing nearby talking. The tugboat Armoco. Canada Wire and Cable Co. bright red spools of wire rope. The large tugboat Snohomish. Broadside shot of ship at wharf, man walking ashore across gangplank, steel wire cable feeding out of winch. The lifeboat and hold. <8mn>

Language:

Silent

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1. Subject description from "Motion Picture Production in British Columbia : 1898-1940".~2. Documentation refers to both titles above.~3. Film runs 12 minutes at silent speed.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8110-0027

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired

Reproduction access:

Copyright Expired

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