Stock shots. Shows tree felling, land clearing, and construction of road(s), probably in the vicinity of Gold River and/or Elk River. Much footage of construction equipment, including bulldozers, scrapers, drills, cranes, etc.

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Stock shots. Shows a salvage logging operation, using a rubber-tired skidder to haul the logs and a grapple loader to load them onto a truck.

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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.

Amateur film. Shows family activities, community events, Stewart and Hyder buildings, and scenery in summer and winter -- including extensive shots of snow clearing. S.S. Alaska.

The item consists of a film reel containing edited footage. This footage was probably shot during a helicopter tour of the area with Ray Williston, Minister of Lands, Forests and Water Resources, in the summer of 1972. It includes: BC Rail construction with bulldozer on the Little Klappan River; footage of Stikine Canyon and helicopter flying in canyon; Mount Edziza; cross on Edziza marking site where two people were killed in an avalanche in the early 1950s, and implements left by the search party; a volcanic cone; Stikine River above the canyon (from the road) and a pan of Tatogga Lake.

Stock shots. Caterpillar tractors using cables to pull down trees (snags?); cats piling slash; crew igniting slash piles with driptorches. Also general views of burned-over area.

Stock shots. Includes footage of: burned forest areas; fire in progress; Sikorsky, Long Ranger and Jet Ranger helicopters dropping water and retardent on fire; fire fighters working with hoses, skidders, tank pumps, etc.; maintaining fireguards; trees candling; caterpillar tractor with V-blade; radio communications; burned out houses, vehicles, etc., found at or near the source of the fire; fire camp scenes and activity (tents, cookhouse, office trailers, tools, equipment, personnel); installing a radio antenna. Also includes aerial views of Buck Flats Camp, equipment, fireguard, burned area (including burned ranch, trailer, homesites, and adjacent forest), main fire camp, Morice River Camp, and burned out plantation.

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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.

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.

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 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)

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Unedited footage. B&W. Vancouver area road construction, 1920s [252 feet]: "Consists of many scenes of bulldozers, graders, trucks, shovels and construction workers building a road from scratch, possibly near UBC, according to Mr. Mackenzie's cousin. Later in the film a group of men and equipment are paving a street in Vancouver, smoothing asphalt, steam rolling it, building sidewalks, etc. In this sequence a CN freight train grinds by as the men lay concrete forms along a short stretch of the tracks, a Dunbar streetcar comes up the hill barely missing a man sprinting across the road with two bottles of milk, and two other streetcars pass by while construction work is in progress. A man in a suit poses, takes off his hat, scratches his head, and puts his hat on again." (Colin Browne) COLOUR. Port Hardy, ca. 1940 [255 feet]: Cleared area with stumps and slash pile. Donkey engine and spartree; yarding logs. Topping a tree. Logging (or construction?) camp scenes. Wharf and sawmill. A seaplane lands. Aerial views of Port Hardy. COLOUR. Watson Lake (presumably in the Yukon), early 1940s [253 feet]: Views of settlement. Motor scow and barge on lake. Airstrip under construction; various aircraft. Townsite in winter with log buildings. Twin-prop seaplane. Motor barge with freight. Moored barges. Clearing small trees with a cat tractor. More aircraft.

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