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News item. The museum's new First Peoples Gallery on Northwest Coast Indians opens. Some good close-ups of totem poles and petroglyphs. The museum director is briefly interviewed about exhibit.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A tour of the Provincial Museum RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963 SUMMARY: Dr. G. Clifford Carl walks around the Provincial Museum and describes some of the exhibits.

SUMMARY: Excerpts from radio programs broadcast in British Columbia, 1933-1970, compiled as a soundtrack for the Royal BC Museum exhibit "Communications Day".

Stock shots. Shows a group of school children touring the Cowichan Valley Forest Museum. Includes classroom scenes, the museum's railroad, and shots of old logging machinery.

Stock shots. Footage of museum displays and artifacts, including switcher and shay locomotives, various cars and crummies, etc. Dignitaries at opening ceremonies.

SUMMARY: Bill Herbert reports on the opening of the new British Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria. Speech by Premier W.A.C. Bennett: origins of the museum, acknowledgements to various institutions, people;, etc. Bill Herbert interviews BCPM director Clifford Carl. They discuss the architecture of the museum building and the Heritage Court complex, then tour the museum, describing and discussing: the relief map of B.C.; the "rain curtain"; the Nootka whaling sculpture; the totem poles by the escalators; natural history exhibits on the second floor --dioramas, climactic regions [to be developed], specifically "the dry interior"; classrooms. Says it will take "several years to fill our exhibit space". Third floor: "Man in B.C." Conclusion by Herbert. Sound of the carillon playing.

SUMMARY: [No content information available.] Probably duplicates the content of T1778:0001.

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The item is a reel of documentary film. It depicts the museum train visiting points in Canada -- mainly Ontario and Quebec. Includes footage of historical artifacts, dramatizations of 19th-century train travel, illustrations and photographs, concluding with shots of modern locomotives and railway equipment.

News item. Footage showing exhibits of various tools, machines and household equipment as used in the 19th century. Reporter talks about west coast geological formations in front of an exhibit which explains them. Close-up shots of Cornish water wheel. Also, interior exhibits of ship "Discovery", Grand Hotel and Livery.

News item. Footage includes brief introduction by head of Provincial Museum's archaeology department. Film is called "The 12,000 Year Gap: Archaeology in British Columbia." Shots of sandstone petroglyphs, Indian middens, engravings and photos of ancient Indian dress for hunting and tribal rights, and Indian basket work. Ethnology expert at museum explains meaning of that word. Indian beadwork. Explanation of maritime fur trade. Indian cooking utensils, weapons, totem pole designs. Disease among the Indians and population decline. Study of Indian facial structure and expressions. Model of totem pole village in museum. Snowshoes, Indian shawls and blankets, Chieftain's head dress, implements. Attempts by to ban the potlatches. Ceremonial garb, Indian dwellings, and burial effigies. Good photography but very little sound.

News item. Director of the Maritime Museum has asked for financial assistance from the provincial government so museum can be kept at its present site. Some excellent close-ups of exhibits.