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Frank Fleming interview
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1985-08-13 [date recorded] (Creation)
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CALL NUMBER: T4215:0001
RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1985-08-13
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Background and interest in film. Development of idea of projected backgrounds for use in TV production, commercials, etc.: the Telefex Library of TV film backgrounds. Started working in broad;casting for CKMO Vancouver, 1932. Covered collapse of Second Narrows Bridge for CKLG, 1958. Worked for CKMO and later CKWX, at transmitter site. Arthur "Sparks" Halstead, CKWX founder. Anecdotes about; Ross MacIntyre, CKWX chief engineer in the 1930s. Gerrard "Slim" Quinney. Fleming later worked at CFJC Kamloops, CFAC Calgary, CJAT Trail, CFCO Chatham (Ont.). Freelanced for CBC, including "Canadian Caravan", program about cross-country trip with his family. Back in Vancouver, worked at CKNW, CKMO/CFUN and CKLG. TRACK 2: More on radio broadcasting career. Did work for Motion Skreenadz film company in Vancouver, ca. 1937 (Wally Hamilton, Leon Shelly) and Trans-Canada Films [TCF], ca. 1951; Ernie Kirkpatrick, cinematographer. Production of coming-attraction trailers. Fleming narrated some of Skreenadz's one-minute advertising spots. Problems of film sound production. Involvement with TCF productions, including army training film shot at Chilliwack. Other staff: Marguerite Roozeboom, Reta Myers. Production of "Silver Harvest" for BC Packers Ltd.
CALL NUMBER: T4215:0002
RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1985-08-13
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: TCF work, cont'd. Film "Pacific Parade" about the PNE parade, ca. 1948. Film "The Story of Advertising." Returned to radio work at CKNW. Scripted film "Trees for Tomorrow" for Lew Parry. C.D.M. "Jack" Kitchin, director. Comments on endings of Parry's films. F.W.E. "Bill" Round and film "Echoes of Gold". Fleming also wrote scripts for "Harbour Patrol", a TV action series that Parry pitched to American backers, ca. 1959. Fleming visited Northern Films studio in Victoria, ca. 1932, and saw filming of "a logging western" (probably "The Crimson Paradise"). TRACK 2: Experience as a movie projectionist. More on the Telefex Library of TV film backgrounds. Other Telefex productions: "The Old Dewdney Trail" (1963); "The Buddha's Foot" (1965), about Fraser River jade; "The Land Behind" (1965), an experimental film using Fleming's own Optarama optical effects process. Production and post-production. Vancouver film labs. Later work on studio front projection systems.
CALL NUMBER: T4215:0003
RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1985-08-13
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Development of Fleming's own CO/AX reflex front projection system for TV and film backgrounds; impetus came from Canawest Film Productions and Keith Cutler re TV series bid. System was designed, built and marketed by Fleming. TRACK 2: [blank; end of interview]
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Dennis J. Duffy, 1985-09-05
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Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-309.
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Accession number(s): T4215
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speaker: Frank E. Fleming, interviewer: Dennis John Duffy
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- CKWX (Radio Station : Vancouver, B.C.) (Subject)
- Trans-Canada Films Ltd. (Subject)