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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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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 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)

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

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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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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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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.

Stock shots. Shows the sorting, bundling and packing of spruce seedlings at Red Rock Forest Nursery. Also shows process of transplanting seedlings with a transplanting machine, and the use of a drill seeder in seed beds.

Stock shots. First section shows crew planting bullet seedlings with planting guns and with dibbles, as well as some bare-root planting. The second section shows the clearing of land in the area to be flooded by the Mica Dam, using caterpillar tractors, Euclids, chain saws, etc. Tree are felled, piled, and the slash and debris are burned. Also includes views of the dam under construction, and of waterways and lakes in the area.

Stock shots. The "tree clipper, etc." material is noted only on the workprint, which is longer than the original.

The item is a video copy of a promotional film of a comprehensive look at Vancouver's Pacific National Exhibition. Includes footage of PNE parade; Exhibition Park (general and aerial views); industrial exhibits; horse show; livestock and poultry exhibits; horticultural displays; home arts and fashion events; dog show; hobby show; the "gayway" rides and games; "Kiddieland"; Miss PNE competition; armed forces display (with CF-100 jet and Centurion tank); tree climbing competition; heavy machinery demonstration; B.C. Electric's "Garden Rendezvous"; horse racing; Board of Directors; the gayway at night.

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.

Amateur film. Coastal people, places and scenery between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Includes footage of Indian villages, pictographs, birds and wildlife, logging operations, other vessels, etc.

Stock shots. Shows use of barge equipped with logging grapple and shears to salvage trees from the area flooded when the level of Ootsa Lake was raised by dam construction in the area.

The item is a composite print of a promotional film from 1970. It shows an experimental project in clearing timber from a reservoir, using hydraulic shears and saws mounted on a shallow-draft barge.

Stock shots. Infected and infested trees. Mill scenes, with burner, loader and lumber carrier. Crew inspecting and marking infected trees, and using pheremone traps. Faller cutting trees. Road building with a caterpillar tractor. Logging scenes, including front-end loader, skidder, caterpillar tractor with tree shears. Small sawmill, making ties, etc. Red (infected) trees and Seeley Lake Provincial Park, south of Hazelton. Fish and Wildlife men board Forest Service helicopter and take off. Aerial views of logged or infected areas, logging operation in progress, and infested areas near Kitwanga and New Hazelton. Ranger and zone forester reviewing aerial photos and map of infested areas, Close-up shots of beetle emerging from tree.

Stock shots. Aerial footage of beetle-killed forest, selectively logged areas and chipper mill site. Logging scenes, including shots of skidder, tree snippers, falling trees, front-end loader, loading of logging truck, etc. Shots of infested logs. Arriving at mills, some of the (affected logs) are chipped; other are debarked and milled into railway ties. More shots of infested logs and dead trees.

Stock shots. A compilation of footage showing beetle infestations, beetle-killed trees, selectively logged areas, beetle larva, etc. Also shows (affected?) trees being cut and taken to mill, where they are either fed into a chipper, or debarked and milled into railway ties.

Stock shots. Bucking, limbing and burning wood and slash from affected trees. Felling, bucking, and piling trees, working in snow. Infected (red) trees. Sawmill.

Stock shots. Shows use of grapple yarder, boom loader, and portable spar to move logs. Falling tree with a chain saw. More on spar and grapple.