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In search of innocence

Documentary. To find out how Vancouver's poets and painters look at life and art, Quebec filmmaker Leonard Forest explores their favourite haunts -- art galleries, private studios and espresso bars. Among the artists seen in the film are painters Donald Jarvis, Jack Shadbolt, Joy Long, and Margaret Peterson; printmaker Sing Lim; and poet bill bisset. The Al Neil Trio (with Glenn MacDonald and Don Thompson) is seen performing at The Cellar coffee house.

Kitimat, port to the world

Industrial film. An overview of the Alcan development of Kitimat -- Kenney Dam on the Nechako River; Kemano power plant; the Kitimat smelter, which ships aluminum all over the world; and the community of Kitimat itself.

Lessons in living

Documentary. Community involvement and responsibility in regard to education. The film shows how a school project revitalized the community of Lantzville by giving the children an active part to play in community life.

Life and the land : [Chilcotin]

Documentary. Profiles a unique project of the Department of Indian Affairs that is under way in the Chilcotin. On a 150.000-acre forest management licence, some 70 Indians are building a forestry and vocational training complex for their own people. They run their own logging operation and have a small town under construction, complete with school, dining hall, dormitory and 19 modern homes. (from CBC Times description)

Madeleine is . . .

Feature film. "The film follows the story of Madeleine (Nicola Lipman), a young French Canadian woman living in Vancouver. Caught between her domineering boyfriend Toro (John Juliani), with his socialist poser friends, and a patronizing employer, Madeleine must break free to assert control over her sexuality and creative desires. Heightened by Doug McKay's quasi-documentary camera style, Spring conveys a strong social vision in her portrayal of Vancouver on the cusp of the 1970s." (Diane Burgess, Vancouver International Film Festival, 2002)

No longer vanishing

Documentary. The changing way of life of Canada's Indian population is illustrated through a look at the varying roles and occupations of Indian people across Canada. Kwakiutl chief James Sewid of the Nimpkish band is shown at Alert Bay and on his fishing boat, the "Twin Sisters".

Pacific Cinematheque collection

  • PR-2235
  • Collection
  • 1944-1975

The collection consists of film printing elements and film prints accumulated by the Pacific Cinematheque as part of their archival mandate.

The collection also includes a few release prints of older National Film Board productions (1944-1968), most of which are no longer circulated by the NFB. These films on British Columbia subjects were selected from the Cinematheque's collection of NFB prints, most of which were acquired from the Vancouver Public Library. There is also a video transfer of the NFB film "Breakdown" (1951).

A smaller part of the collection (accession F1987:21) comprises prints and/or printing elements of nine films made in the period 1969-1975 by Vancouver independent and student filmmakers, including Peter Bryant, Fred Cawsey, Tom Shandel, Sylvia Spring, and Richard Watson. Most of these are short 16 mm films, but there are also 35 mm theatrical release prints of two B.C. features: Shandel's "Another Smith for Paradise" and Spring's "Madeleine Is . . .", both released in 1971.

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