Television stock shots. Footage of Protection Island [presumably the one adjacent to Nanaimo], including Les Mottishaw [?]; residents walking [?]; scenery.
Stock shots. 1. Air West float plane with damage (a hole). 2. Totem carving. 3. Loading totem pole onto plane. 4. Premier Bill Bennett. 5. Hugh Curtis at sod-turning ceremony. 6. Creek, farm, etc. 7. CNR tanker cars and caboose. 8. Art class. 9. Tank farms on Victoria harbour. 10. B&W stills -- historical photos of the harbour. 11. Duke Point Industrial Park. 12. Construction. 13. Public meeting. 14. B&W aerial photos of Duke Point. 15. Mount Douglas Cross Road and surrounding streets. 16. Development model. 17. Ucluelet harbour. 18. Long Beach. 19. Campbell River. 20. Fish boats. 21. Port Alberni. 22. Construction. 23. Gold River.
Stock shots. 1. Terry Fox rally. "To a great guy, Terry Fox, from the crew of the M.V. Victoria Princess." 2. Car wash. 3. Radio station interior. 4. Incinerator. 5. Nuclear medicine; chemotherapy. 6. Hospital shots -- surgery. 7. Guard dog. 8. Cyclotron (TRIUMF?). 9. Mirror for Canada/France/USA telescope in Hawaii. 10. Radio telescope (satellite dish?) -- Teleglobe Canada Earth Station at Lake Cowichan. 11. BC Ferry workers on strike. 12. "Queen of Chemainus" in dry dock. [Note: no known vessel by that name.] 13. CP Ferry "Prince George". 14. Troops landing on a beach. 15. Arctic exercises -- troops in white. 16. Naval vessel. 17. Winter exercises -- troops cavorting. 18. Parachute drop. 19. Tall ship in harbour -- "Sagres". 20. HMCS "Provider" -- troops boarding. 21. Jet fighter launching missile; aircraft in flight. 23. On parade. 24. Battlefield exercise.
Documentary. Highway construction in BC. Includes planning and surveys; opening of contractors' bids by Highways Minister Gaglardi; clearing of route by heavy equipment; culvert assembly; drilling and blasting rock; road bed preparation; paving. Also: traffic control; overpass construction. Sections of Highways 1 and 1A are shown, and Premier W.A.C. Bennett presides at an official opening.
Documentary. "Until midway through the twentieth century, logging operations made use of the "spartree," a particularly tall and strong tree that could support the lead blocks for high-line logging. The branches and top were removed by the highrigger before guylines and cables were rigged. Specially designed camera equipment for high-altitude shooting, operated by a stunt man, produces some spectacular views of Hap Johnson, highrigger, on his way up a 76-metre Douglas fir tree." (NLC description) Filmed at Caycuse, B.C.
Documentary. "Until midway through the twentieth century, logging operations made use of the "spartree," a particularly tall and strong tree that could support the lead blocks for high-line logging. The branches and top were removed by the highrigger before guylines and cables were rigged. Specially designed camera equipment for high-altitude shooting, operated by a stunt man, produces some spectacular views of Hap Johnson, highrigger, on his way up a 76-metre Douglas fir tree." (NLC description) Filmed at Caycuse, B.C.
News footage. A re-enactment of a Canadian Armed Forces search and rescue operation. On 15-Mar-1978, Doug Larden's fishing vessel, "Mother III", had an engine room fire en route from Vancouver Island to the herring fishery off Queen Charlottes. The crew was forced to escape by liferaft. Three days later, they were spotted by a Canadian Forces Argus aircraft and rescued by helicopter.
