Recherche dans la collection - After Fifty Years

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

1979-0308

Film

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1937

Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau

editing, J. Booth Scott; sound, Northern Electric Recording (Montreal); narration, Edward Wade Devlin; sound recording, William H. Lane; Charles J. Quick

A brief history of the city of Vancouver with excellent pictorial coverage of the downtown business district, the waterfront, the sea coast, recreational areas, and good shots of street car and traffic downtown. Shown is: an establishing skyline shot, the Vancouver Hotel; sightseers on an open observation street car; the old Cenotaph; and Hastings Street with its Chinatown; residential areas, such as Shaughnessy Heights, with beautiful homes and gardens; the Capilano Canyon and a suspension foot-bridge; Stanley Park; Douglas Fir trees; fir tree with large opening in trunk; the Warren G. Harding Memorial; the zoo; English Bay crowded with swimmers; one of the famous Empress ships preparing to leave harbour; and the harbour and skyline as it was in 1937. <12mn>

English

Libre

V1 8306-0078
V1 2009-12-0003

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