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The item is a reel of promotional film showing opening ceremonies of the British Columbia Pavilion at the Osaka '70 World's Fair, and a tour of the pavilion. Several dignitaries are present, including Waldo Skillings, B.C.'s Minister of Industrial Development, Trade and Commerce.

The item is a reel of film footage. Newton Phillips Steacy, Commissioner of BC House in San Francisco, California, is shown around and about the city promoting British Columbia. Steacy had proposed a promotional film about the work of the Commissioner and British Columbia House in San Francisco. He was to write the script, and some black & white footage was shot, but the film was never completed.

The item is a reel of unedited film footage of Premier W.A.C. Bennett making a speech. Vancouver Mayor Tom Campbell and the Hon. L.J. Wallace are also shown, as well as a choir and the Beefeater Band.

The item is a reel of Japanese news film . Shows the BC Pavilion at the Osaka 1970 world's fair.

The item is a reel of industrial film regarding Crown Zellerbach's operations in British Columbia. Sequences include: logging in the Nitinat area; transportation of logs by truck, railway, raft and boom; self-dumping log barge; production of lumber and plywood at Fraser Mills sawmill; newsprint production at Elk Falls; the pulp tanker "Duncan Bay"; Ocean Falls operation; Richmond Division plant (cardboard boxes etc.); marketing staff visits Okanagan Valley apple orchards.

The series consists of miscellaneous films (some original footage and some composite prints) and videocassettes about British Columbia. It includes films about the BC Pavilion in Osaka (1970), British Columbia House in San Francisco (ca. 1965) as well as the opening of the 1971 BC International Trade fair, a film about lumbering in British Columbia (1925) and Crown Zellerbach lumber activities (1966) and a reel from ca. 1970 about sailing activities.

The series also includes two video copies of BBC films, one about lumbering activities and one about a search and rescue operation.

The photographs and at least some of the films were formerly held by British Columbia House in San Francisco. Some of the films are composite prints; F1984:10/002 appears to be original footage.

The item is a reel of documentary film. "'[In] this educational film, replete with scenic beauties, is depicted, in graphic manner, the lumbering operations, from the felling of the giant trees to the export shipping of the finished product.'" View up a tall Douglas fir. At the base two men are examining the trunk. Two notches are cut and springboards placed in them. The two men test the springboards, then make an undercut with saw and axe, both men chopping. The men test the direction of the falling tree by putting the head of the axe into the notched undercut and sighting down the handle. They begin to saw through from the other side with a Swedish fiddle. The tree falls, five men stand on the stump. View of the end of the tree, shot of the length of the tree. Two buckers arrive and begin to saw the tree into manageable lengths. [Long shot] high rigger at the top of a spar after topping. A log is lifted off the ground by a steel cable. Good view of a donkey engine working. Log moving down skid-way. Head-on shot of log plunging into a pond with spectacular spray. Logs are formed into Davis rafts in the bay. [Long shot] large boom of logs. Logs piled at the mill, a donkey working, sheds, etc. Good shot of a heap of logs with red ensign on a boat in the [foreground]. Logs being loaded onto a BC Electric flatcar. Train moves out on way to mill, passing a little station, etc. [Long shot] Hastings Saw Mill with rafts and booms of logs spread out before it. Log being drawn up endless chain into the saws. Shot of booms. Good shots of log on carriage being squared by saw with operator in [foreground]. Men receiving lumber on green chain. Scene in the lumber yard where lumber is being sorted, graded and piled. Big timbers being pushed down a ramp into a pile. Long timbers on a speeder on the [railroad] tracks in the mill. Long timbers being loaded onto a chute where they slide down onto a pile of lumber." (Colin Browne)

The item is a video copy of a documentary film showing the work of Canadian Armed Forces 442 Search and Rescue Squadron, based at Comox, and in particular, the search for downed pilot Rudy Bauer. Commanding officer Lt. Col. Demers is interviewed. The Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria is also shown.

The item is a video copy of a documentary film about loggers and logging in British Columbia, in the past and the present. Includes footage of All-Sooke Day logger's sports; logging equipment on display at the PNE; high-tech mechanized logging; road-building with a caterpillar tractor; and interviews with loggers Mackie Pickard, Roger Ennis, and John Dubeck. Historical footage includes horse logging; hand falling and bucking; blasting; logging railroad; spar tree; donkey engine; and railway speeder. Includes historical footage from Gerry Wellburn, Phil Le Mare, and the British Columbia Forest Service.

The item is a reel of recreational film. It is a sailing film shot in Victoria, Nanaimo (bathtub race), Vancouver and West Vancouver.