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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.

The item consists of 10 reels (ca. 400 feet) of miscellaneous positive 16 mm footage, both b&w and colour, created between 1965 and 1974.

1. Reforestation: scenes of reforestation activity by MacMillan Bloedel around Harmac Tree Farm No. 19; silent colour answer print, November 9, 1970.
2. Revegetation : Placer Development Ltd. shows Conair small aircraft being loaded, flying over mine, soil sampling; silent colour positive.
3. Japanese oranges : unloading of oranges from the ship "Puna", children eating oranges; silent b&w, 1971.
4. Japanese oranges : variation of footage in item 3; silent b&w, 1971.
5. Pacific Centre opening : shots in around Pacific Centre including TD bank facility; silent b&w, October 28, 1971.
6. Japanese oranges: unloading ship "Sultana" at dock; silent col., 1974.
7. NDP commercial: TV spot for NDP shows housewife washing dishes; b&w, 1965.
8. Hire a student, Endako Mines: blasting, explosion, shots of mining and laboratory activity with student employees; silent col., June 11, 1973.
9. Revegetation: Place Development Ltd., duplicate print of no. 2
10. Magnussen great moments: Shots of Karen Magnussen skating, portrait being painted; silent col.

The item consists of two reels of film footage of a school trip to Macmillan Bloedel at Santa Maria Lake.

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.

Unedited footage. Footage of the Martin Mars flying boat, the world's largest fire-fighting aircraft. A Mars is seen on the tarmac and in the water at its Sproat Lake base on Vancouver Island. It is also seen in flight, dropping water on a forest fire, and skimming along a lake to refill its tanks.

Newsreel. Eleven stories from around the world, including three from British Columbia. The eighth story, entitled "Rodeo: Cowboy's Holiday -- Wild and Western," shows bronco and Brahma bull riding at the Cloverdale holiday rodeo. The ninth, "Indian Regatta: West Coast Tribes Vie in War Canoes," shows native Canadians competing in the annual war canoe races at Esquimalt; the Chemainus team wins. The tenth, "End of Era: Timber Festival Marks End of Logging Trains," shows the shutting down of the logging railway at MacMillan & Bloedel's Franklin River operation. The train, pulled by a steam locomotive, is shown loading and dumping logs, and its replacement -- the logging truck -- goes to work.

Out-takes. A young man who is skeptical about the future of the forest industry is taken to see various plants and operations. Illustrates the processes used and the diversity of wood products. Most of the film depicts MacMillan & Bloedel's Harmac plant and logging operations on Vancouver Island. There are also brief sequences aboard a ferry from Vancouver to the island.

The item is an industrial film. A young man who is skeptical about the future of the forest industry is taken to see various plants and operations. Illustrates the processes used and the diversity of wood products. Most of the film depicts MacMillan & Bloedel's Harmac plant and logging operations on Vancouver Island. There are also brief sequences aboard a ferry from Vancouver to the island.

Industrial film. MacMillan Bloedel's approach to forest management and reforestation. Includes scenes of logging operations, forest fire fighting (Northwest Bay Division, Nanoose Bay), burned-over forest, Beaufort Tree Farm, tree planting, etc. Also brief shots of Vancouver (Hastings St.) and Victoria.