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Hamatsa
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- sound recording
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1965-10-01 [date recorded] (Creation)
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CBC Saturday evening
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SUMMARY: "Saturday Evening" was a series of 1.5 hour programs broadcast from 8:30 to 10:00 PM on Saturday nights. The series ran from October 1962 to the spring of 1967. Usually in two parts, the programs feat;ured plays, classical concerts, documentaries and talks. This episode, "Hamatsa", features a recorded performance of the Kwakiutl Hamatsa or Cannibal Dance. In June 1965, CBC Radio visited Alert Bay, ;where the family of James Knox of Fort Rupert presented the Hamatsa dance-drama, the first time that this dance has been recorded for public broadcast. The program also dramatizes the story behind the; dance and the myth of the Supernatural Cannibal. The voices of actors Walter Marsh, Robert Clothier, Daphne Goldrick and Lee Taylor are heard.;
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Norman Newton, 1989-01-20
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Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-361.
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No access restrictions apply.
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- Copying Restriction: Clients requesting research/private copies must fill out CBC form.
- Use Restriction: Not for broadcast or commercial use without written permission of the CBC.
- Copyright Status: Copyright Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Associated materials
The BC Archives holds field recordings (T4365:0251 - 0252) which may have been used in this program.
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Accession number(s): T4365
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Program script on file.
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CBC-Newton ; H0694
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Robert Clothier, Daphne Goldrick, Walter Marsh, Lee Taylor
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producing company: CBU (Radio station : Vancouver, B.C.), producer: Norman Lewis Newton, writer: Norman Lewis Newton, broadcaster: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation