Theatrical trailer. Promotional trailer for Philip Borsos' feature film FAR FROM HOME: THE ADVENTURES OF YELLOW DOG.

Stock shots. Includes footage of the "Manning Park Gallows" fire prevention sign on the Hope-Princeton Highway; general footage of forest fire(s), fire fighters, and their equipment; aerial footage of fire; use of helicopters and air tankers (B-17 bomber); etc.

Promotional research. This tape records focus groups from San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and possibly elsewhere discussing their reaction to Expo 86 promotions featuring the B.C. Premier and the Prime Minister of Canada.

Television commercials. A selection of television public awareness spots dealing with forest fire prevention in British Columbia. Most of the spots emphasize the role of human carelessness as a major cause of forest fires, and highlight their impact in terms of financial loss, destruction of wildlife, and damage to recreational values. One spot ("Green Gold") ties in with the 1958 B.C. Centennial; another features UBC president Dr. N.AM. MacKenzie.

CALL NUMBER: T3341:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Early life and career of Dan Ekman PERIOD COVERED: 1926-1957 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-15 SUMMARY: Dan Ekman discusses: his early years and family background, training and career as a newspaperman in Vancouver, working as a P.R. man for Westcoast Transmission Co., attitudes towards politics.
CALL NUMBER: T3341:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Duties and functions of executive assistant to Premier W.A.C. Bennett PERIOD COVERED: 1957-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-15 SUMMARY: Dan Ekman discusses the circumstances leading up to his appointment as executive assistant to Premier W.A.C. Bennett and the duties and functions of that position.
CALL NUMBER: T3341:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Working as Executive Assistant to the Premier RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-08-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dan Ekman discusses aspects of his job as executive assistant to Premier W.A.C. Bennett. Comments on Bennett's personality and style. Reliance on individuals within the government and delegation of authority. Attitudes towards women. TRACK 2: Bennett's public image and how it evolved. Bill Clancy. The bond-burning ceremony. Take-over of the B.C. Electric Co. Bennett's fascination with secrecy. Relationships with cabinet colleagues.
CALL NUMBER: T3341:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Social Credit politics and election campaigns in B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-08-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dan Ekman discusses the Sommers case, the calling of elections, the 1960 election, a recollection of the events on election night, leaving the position of executive assistant in 1961, relationship with Premier after leaving. TRACK 2: Assumption of position with Westcoast Transmission, Frank McMahon and the 1960 election, starting up his own advertising agency, the Socred government's use; of advertising during election campaigns, the 1963 Fulton challenge, running election campaigns for W.A.C. Bennett.
CALL NUMBER: T3341:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The decline of Social Credit : the 1972 election RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-08-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dan Ekman discusses the public image of W.A.C. Bennett, the paranoid style in B.C. politics, the Malaspina gas line story. TRACK 2: Further comments on the plan for the Malaspina gas line, Clarence Budd, the 1972 election, the question of succession to the leadership of the Social Credit Party. (End of interview).

Television commercials. Three 30-second public service announcements about Expo attractions.

The item is a reel of film containing television commercials of BC Forest Service spot advertisements.

Out-takes. The value to good health of Nutri vitamin supplements. As part of the company's marketing plan, prints of the film were to be sold to independent salesman, along with the vitamins (and a film projector). In the USA, a similar plan using slide shows and filmstrips proved more successful.

Promotional film

Television commercial. 60-second commercial featuring a skiing sequence, probably shot in BC or Alberta. Box label: "J.W.T. Labatt's / Skiing / :60 /Eng.".

Transcripts produced by the Hansard Office of sittings of Select Standing Committees and Special Committees of the BC Legislative Assembly, 1973. Not all committees were recorded since each committee had the choice of whether to accept Hansard's services. Of those that did, some met in camera without transcription services or "on the road" where recording was not feasible.

Included here are the Select Standing Committees on Agriculture, on Forestry and Fisheries, Public Accounts and Printing, Municipal Matters, Social Welfare and Education; and to Special Committees on Coastal Oil Spills and Television Broadcasting.

Item consists of television commercial for long term health program (with sign language insert).

Television commercial. Television spot, mainly promoting the company's Sylvaply Plywood line. Colour footage from previous M&B films (on 1953 stock) is intercut with 1958 b&w stock.

Out-takes. Television spot, mainly promoting the company's Sylvaply Plywood line. This roll of outs includes scenes of logging (Nanoose Bay), sawmill operations, manufacture and shipping of plywood, etc.

Television commercial. Promotional spot for Expo '86 and Lotto 6/49. Presentation involving computer graphics and song with the theme "man in motion".

Television commercial. Commercial about Coca-Cola's sponsorship of Expo passes.

The item consists of a video tape created by the Ministry of Highway and Public Works in 1977. It contains two 30-second television ads called metric conversion -- daytime, nighttime.

The series consists of television commercials and public service announcements made by the Ministry of Human Resources, with the participation of the Ministry of the Attorney-General, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health in 1979 as part of the "Year of the Child and Family in B.C."

Promotional film. A series of villain and damsel-in-distress vignettes in the style of the silent film era, advertising "Frontier" beer brewed by Molson for the US market.

Television commercial. Presentation about senior citizens; appears to be incomplete.

Theatrical trailer. This advertisement for canned milk (about 50 seconds) is followed by unidentified silent footage of a fashion show (about 45 seconds).

Television commercials. Compilation of 36 television commercials directed by Phillip Borsos. They range in length from 15 to 60 seconds. The sponsors/products include Anacin, Campbell's Soup, Canadian Tire, the Council for Canadian Unity, Choclairs, Dempster's, Eckerd Drugs, General Motors, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Molson, Ocean Spray Cranberry Cocktail, Ontario Hydro, Pepsi, Wardair, and Weston Bakeries.

Television commercials. Compilation of about 40 television commercials directed by Phillip Borsos. They range in length from 30 to 60 seconds. The sponsors/products include Canadian Tire, Choclairs, the Council for Canadian Unity, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Ocean Spray Cranberry Cocktail, Ontario Hydro, Wardair, and Weston Bakeries.

Television commercials. Compilation of 8 television commercials directed by Phillip Borsos. The sponsors/products include Campbell's Soup, Canadian Tire, Choclairs, Eckerd Drugs, Molson, Ocean Spray Cranberry Cocktail, Pepsi, and Weston's Bakeries.

Television commercials. Demonstrates four conceptual commercials in "animatic" form that propose the value of invitations to Expo 86 by the B.C. Premier and Canada's Prime Minister.

The series consists of brochures, photographic prints, note pads, glossy folders and advertisement colour keys used by Okanagan Helicopters to advertise services and equipment. The brochures, printed between 1968 and 1970, informed clients of the company’s acquisition of new aircraft.

The series also consists of promotional material for the Aerial Line Stringer, dating to the late 1950s or early 1960s, and the Helicopter Underslung Spray System (HUSS) Bucket, which was patented in 1969.

The series also consists of a file that purports to be publicity material from the 1967 Abbotsford Airshow. Although it is unclear whether this is correct, captions on the photographs indicate that at least one of the images may have been taken at an airshow, and some of the photographs may have been used for publicity purposes.

The series also consists of graphic material that was used in the production of advertisements. Included are two sets of colour key transparencies and related material for advertisements with the tag lines “Okanagan Delivers” and “The Universal Experience.”

Related ephemera, such as badges, decals, matchbooks, and a baseball cap were transferred to the department of Human History at the Royal British Columbia Museum. Blank orange promotional note pads have been retained with the archival material.
The series is organized chronologically.

Television commercials

Television commercials. A selection of Canadian-produced animation sequences from advertisers such as the Yellow Pages, the Canadian Diabetes Association, Ducks Unlimited, etc., assembled for Expo 86 by design exhibitors Aldrich Pears Associates.