Item F1987:37/004 - The Earth's furnace

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The Earth's furnace

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  • moving images

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British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority

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F1987:37/004

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  • [1979?] (Creation)

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1 film reel (00:22:00 ; 800 ft) : composite print (1979 version), colour, sound ; 16 mm

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Energy BC

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The item consists of a documentary film made by BC Hydro and Power Authority around 1979. B.C. is situated on a line of volcanoes, alive and extinct, that stretches from Mexico to Alaska, and B.C. Hydro is "getting warm" in its drilling tests to tap this source of geothermal energy.

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Another copy of this film exists, F1987:37/004.02.

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Conservation restriction: original films are in cold storage and are inaccessible.

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Copyright British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority.

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This film was apparently revised and re-cut in 1984; see AAAA1592 for production elements and prints from both versions.

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Additional credit: "With the assistance of the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources."

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References: B.C. Hydro, "B.C. Hydro Films" [FCAT 0002 1980].

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Accession number(s): F1987:37

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Previously described as AAAA8153.

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sponsored/presented by: British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority; producing agency/company: British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority; host: Bob Fortune

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