Special event coverage. Chronicles the August 28-30, 1956, inauguration of through-service on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway between North Vancouver and Prince George. Premier W.A.C. Bennett and other dignitaries ride the three inaugural trains, which are eagerly greeted by the residents of towns along the route. A rockslide at Mile 18 on Howe Sound delays the journey until a bulldozer clears the tracks. At Williams Lake station, a mock frontier lynching is staged for the entertainment of the premier and his party. Following footage of the arrival in Prince George, the film also shows progress on northward expansion of the PGE line (including bridge and grade construction), and ends with shots of oil rigs in the Peace River Region.

The item is a training film from 1980. Uses live-action and animated sequences to demonstrate hand signals used to direct crane boom, line, combination and travel operations. Location footage shows railway cranes at work in a rail yard and hoisting a derailed locomotive.

The item is a reel of promotional film showing the uses of caterpillar tractors in the logging industry. Includes scenes from Australia, the Pacific Northwest and Carolina.

The item is a reel of documentary film. "This film shows the many uses of Caterpillar tractors, including supplying power for pneumatic drills and air hammers, ditching, excavation work, and hauling, both on clear ground and snow-covered terrain. Also includes shots of a portable crane loading steel onto a truck, and a railway car. Shots also of an old portable loader and a steam engine passing at speed. This film may not have been filmed in B.C." (Colin Browne)

The item consists of two items of footage wound on one reel.
Item 1: Views of shack camps, crew, fighting fires, log barges, Forest Service staff at Prince George, starfish.
Item 2: Views of cats, high riggers, train, Pattullo Bridge, Green Timbers Camp, crews and orchards.

The item is a reel of promotional film. "Young men building huts in a nearly completed camp. Fire fighting practice. Building a bridge abutment. Splitting shakes with a froe. Snag falling. Bucking firewood. Men fighting a fire with hand tools and a bulldozer. After fire, men showering, having haircuts and washing up. [Close-up of] grub --meal on plate. Pay parade. [Long shot of] scenery on Vancouver Island. This short film was intended to interest young men in a career with the Forest Service, or a summer's employment." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of promotional film about caterpillar tractors. "Showing the extensive use to which Caterpillar tractors and graders can be put in preparing an area for logging by putting in roads and fire traits. It also illustrates the wide variety of jobs performed by "cats" in actual logging work.' A Caterpillar Tractor advertising film. It includes scenes in Australia and Carolina, and may or may not contain sequences filmed in British Columbia." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of film footage showing forest clearing in the Peace River reservoir, using cats and chains.

Industrial film

Thie series consists of an extensive collection of stock shots, depicting a wide range of B.C. Forest Service and Ministry of Forests activities and related subjects. Compiled from footage shot for a variety of purposes, the material was retained for potential use as stock footage in BC Forest Service and Ministry of Forests film productions and TV spots. Some footage was also loaned out for TV news use.

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractors using ball and chain apparatus to knock down trees and clear land.

Stock shots. Footage includes: powder man preparing to blast section of rock; dumping truckloads of at the Port hardy log dumping ground; caterpillar tractors shifting logs and moving earth; more drilling and blasting; more log dump scenes.

Stock shots. Shows mechanical preparation of soil for tree planting by a caterpillar tractor equipped with Bracke scarifier and a brush blade.

Stock shots

Stock shots. Show clearing of snags, etc., in the area of the Paul Fire, using caterpillar tractors equipped with chains. Includes aerial views or operation and cleared area.

Stock shots. Shows a caterpillar tractor with a specialized blade clearing brush.

Stock shots. Shows location crew surveying for road; clearing trees and preparing road area with caterpillar tractor, scraper and other heavy equipment; installing culverts; use of dredger and stone crusher; surfacing road with gravel. Also camp scenes, including cookhouse. Appears to be in the vicinity of Stone Creek and Willow River, in the Cariboo southeast of Prince George.

Stock shots. Demonstrates use of heavy equipment and attachments in clearing heavy slash.

Stock shots. Shows an experimental controlled burn in a young stand with slash; burn is started by ground crew. Men attach pheremone container to tree infected with mountain pine beetle; wetting down area prior to burning; igniting the tree; dead beetles. Slash burning sequence. Many shots of fire by day and night. Also includes aerial views of burn area and fire guard.

Stock shots. Shots in and from a bird-dog plane showing forest fire and airtankers making drops. At tanker base, crew mixing fire retardent. Air crew, ranger and dispatcher at [Kamloops?] base. Suppression crew loading truck and driving through forest. Fire lookout observing smoke. Many shots of telephone and radio use. Shot in and from fire patrol plane. More airtanker drops. Extensive footage of ground crew, caterpillar tracks, trucks and other equipment fighting fire.

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractor; Canso airtanker; forest fire near Sooke Harbour; fire crews at work; fire fighting equipment in use; etc.

Stock shots. Suppression crew dispatched from Langford ranger station. Canso drops on fire. Caterpillar tractor, surpression crew fighting the fire. Staged sequence showing smokers discarding their cigarettes carelessly. Fire crew and tanker trucks.

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractor, tanker truck, and suppression crew at forest fire scene. Canso airtanker makes drops on fire. Use of radio communications. Duncan ranger station.

Stock shots. Shows use of the grapple yarder and loader to load logs onto a truck.

Stock shots. Scenic shots of oak tree and golf course. At Koksilah Nursery, footage of: sprinklers; seedling and seed beds; weeding; seeding (with tractor-drawn seeder); irrigation system; earth spreader. Also, weeding seed beds at Duncan Nursery.

Stock shots. Shows a dry land log sorting operation of B.C. Forest Products, using a Kenworth log sorter.

Stock shots. Includes footage of: log boom; loading logs onto truck; horse logging; sawmill and lumber yard scenes; high-rigger topping a tree; pulp mill; skidding logs with a caterpillar tractor; logging damage at Myra Creek [in Strathcona Park?]; sequence illustrating poor logging techniques.