The item is a film print of unedited footage from around 1958. It contains winter scenes with heavy equipment at work, surveying, plowing snow, office interior, power plant, substation exteriors, etc. and tunnel or penstock construction at Ash River project on Great Central Lake.

The item consists of reel of film footage from 1958-1959. It contains a spliced-together footage compilation showing various Power Commission operations: mobile 500KW diesel generating unit arrives in Revelstoke, cable-laying barge, boats and shore crew lay underwater line to Thetis & Kuper Islands, island residents celebrate at a picnic, where First Nations dancers perform, power plant construction & tunnel work at Ash River project on Great Central Lake [similar tunnelling shots in Men at Work], continuing through winter, completed Ash River Generating Station and penstock, shots of Chemainus sawmill and new power station.

B&W footage: official opening of Georgia Gas Turbine Generating Station at Chemainus -- people touring station, Premier W.A.C. Bennett and Commission chairman Hugh Keenleyside addressing crowd and on-site CHEK-TV interview [b&w, sound] with Premier Bennett re Power Commission development.

Industrial film. Shows construction of powerhouse, tunnel and penstock on Great Central Lake at the Ash River Project; general views of construction site and vicinity.

Television commercials. A representative collection of MacMillan Bloedel television commercials highlighting various aspects of the company's operations and corporate citizenship. Includes spots focusing on the company's activities in world trade markets; methods of transporting logs and products; the self-dumping log barge; log sorting with dozer boats; new methods of planting and reforestation; forest fire protection; pollution control; the Ash River Valley reforestation project, begun in 1942; the educational activities of wildlife filmmaker Tommy Tompkins, sponsored by MacMillan Bloedel; and a bird sanctuary near Port Alberni supported by the company. Each spots is 1-2 minutes long.

The item is a release print of an industrial film from ca. 1958. BC Power Commission employees do many jobs essential to the maintenance of electrical service. The film includes footage of snow survey work on central Vancouver Island, a logging crew clearing trees at the edge of a reservoir, work in progress on the water diversion tunnel at Ash River, transmission tower construction, a crew hanging warning markers on power lines, inspection of power lines via helicopter and Spillimacheen generating station. There are also scenes in Fort St. James and vicinity. The film is set within the framework of a simulated interview show on CHEK-TV. Director of administration Garth Griffith and public information officer Jim Bogyo talk with host Keith Cutler.

Industrial film. BC Power Commission employees do many jobs essential to the maintenance of electrical service. The film includes footage of snow survey work on central Vancouver Island; a logging crew clearing trees at the edge of a reservoir; work in progress on the water diversion tunnel at Ash River; transmission tower construction; a crew hanging warning markers on power lines; inspection of power lines via helicopter; and Spillimacheen generating station. Also scenes in Fort St. James and vicinity. The film is set within the framework of a simulated interview show on CHEK-TV. Director of administration Garth Griffith and public information officer Jim Bogyo talk with host Keith Cutler.

Recreational. Fishermen Al McClane (of "Field & Stream" magazine) and Charles Ritz of Paris demonstrate methods of silver salmon and steelhead trout fishing on the Stamp and Ash Rivers, near Port Alberni. General C. Lindemann also appears.