[Tom Sidney films] : [Armstrong Fair, DEW Line construction, Kelowna airport and family scenes]
- AAAA5261
- Item
- [ca. 1956-1960?]
Part of Tom Sidney fonds
Amateur film. (1) Armstrong Fair and Interior Provincial Exhibition, 1956: agricultural exhibits; performing dogs; gymkhana; livestock parades and judging; marching pipe band; Armstrong and vicinity; street scene. (2) DEW Line construction, Northwest Territories, ca. 1957-1958: construction of radio masts and radar dome at a DEW radar site; winter landscape; aerial views of snowy terrain; shots inside, from and of Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3 (designated CF-CPY); CPA Terminal (Yellowknife?); US Air Force cargo plane (a C-124 Globemaster II?) lands on snow-covered airstrip; a Sno-Cat tractor is unloaded, and the cargo plane takes off; sled and dog team pause near DEW Line site; crash site and wreckage of the same C-124 (broken-off tail, wings, etc.); CPA plane lands on a gravel strip; DEW line site. (3) Kelowna airport: light planes taxiing, taking off and landing; heavy equipment at work nearby. (4) Family boating and fishing scenes.