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[Alberni digs] : [television spot]

Television shorts. Television spot featuring an archaeological dig in the Port Alberni area. Located near one of MacMillan Bloedel's mills, the dig was carried out with the company's financial support, under the direction of Denis St. Claire. Archaeologists are seen at their various tasks in the excavation, documenting artifacts, etc. The site appears to relate to the whaling tradition of the West Coast people.

[Bloedel, Stewart & Welch Ltd. : Port Alberni and Great Central]

Industrial film. Edited and inter-titled film showing Bloedel, Stewart and Welch facilities on Vancouver Island. Film highlights construction of Port Alberni sawmill, 1934-1935, from an empty site to an operating plant, and arrival in spring 1935 of the "Rio Dorado", the first ship to load at the company dock. Also includes footage of boat trip to Great Central and scenes in and around the Great Central townsite; the steamship "Princess Maquinna" is shown en route. B.S.&W. personnel shown and named in the film include E.P. Demens, J.H. Bloedel ["J.H.B."], and J.W. Stewart.

[Bus tours] : [television spot]

Television shorts. Television commercial showing free public tours of MacMillan Bloedel's logging and forestry operations on Vancouver Island. Offered by the company in the summer of 1972 or 1973, the tours included log harvesting and handling, product manufacture and reforestation.

Daylight in the swamp

Documentary. The "glory days" of logging in B.C. are evoked through dramatized sequences, archival footage and photographs, oral history interviews with old-time loggers, and historical re-creations filmed at the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. The latter scenes feature vintage equipment, including a steam locomotive and steam donkey. The nature of the pioneer logger's life, and the impact of technological change upon that way of life, are also discussed. In one sequence, an old-time high-rigger climbs and tops a spar tree.

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