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Travelogue. Made two weeks after the opening of the Big Bend highway and the Banff-Jasper Highway, this film depicts the scenery of British Columbia as seen from the Trans-Canada Highway between Vancouver and Field, with side trips from Jasper to Banff and into the Okanagan Valley.

Special event footage. Amateur footage of the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Vancouver. Shows track and field events at Empire Stadium on opening day; final day events at Empire Stadium (including the Roger Bannnister-John Landy "Miracle Mile" and the end of Jim Peters' marathon attempt); swimming and diving events at Empire Pool; rowing events on the Vedder Canal.

The item consists of an ECO master made from an industrial film originally made between 1937 and 1939. It contains a detailed record of the construction of the First Narrows Bridge (Lion's Gate Bridge) between Vancouver and the North Shore of Burrard Inlet. A.J.T. Taylor, who promoted the idea of the bridge and the residential development of the North Shore, is seen discussing the plans with architect John Anderson. The bridge was first crossed by a car on November 4, 1938 and opened to the public on November 12, 1938. John Anderson receives the first toll ticket. Charles Marega's sculptured lions are shown. The "Empress of Japan" steams under the bridge. On May 29, 1939 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth cross the bridge and later, under naval escort, they pass under it aboard a ship bound for Victoria.

Travelogue. Footage taken on automobile trip(s) through "the historic gorge of the Fraser". Also includes footage of trail rides and Rainbow Lodge at Alta Lake. The reel concludes with shots of a covered wagon and cars on the Fraser Canyon highway.

Special event footage. Amateur film of Vancouver's first Grey Cup parade.

Footage. Ice skaters crowd the frozen surface of Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park, Vancouver.

Special event footage. Wartime parade showing US and Canadian troops, infantry units, bands, tanks, artillery, armoured vehicles, a mobile searchlight, a civil defence unit, women's military units (WAC: Women's Army Corps and Wrens: Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service), and a propaganda display with "slaves" towing a chariot marked with a swastika and guarded by "German soldiers".

Special event footage. The military parades probably mark troops departing for World War Two in 1940, and V-J Day, 14-Aug-1945. Reel concludes with floats in the Vancouver Diamond Jubilee parade, 1946.

Documentary. One of three or four films produced or sponsored by Home Oil Distributors with the cooperation of the Provincial Archives, this film presumably traced the history of B.C. through photographs, maps and other archival materials. The title is an allusion to Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", in which the land of "Brobdingnag" is located on the northwest coast of North America (i.e., B.C.). This fragment of the film includes a few shots taken inside the Provincial Archives. Other shots show an early edition of "Gulliver's Travels" and various early maps of the B.C. coast.

Documentary. One of three or four films produced or sponsored by Home Oil Distributors with the cooperation of the Provincial Archives, this film probably traced the history of B.C. through photographs, maps and other archival materials. The title is an allusion to Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", in which the land of "Brobdingnag" is located on the northwest coast of North America (i.e., B.C.). The surviving fragments of the film include shots of an early edition of Gulliver's Travels, of various early maps, and of Nanaimo Harbour, Douglas and Yates Streets in Victoria, and the title and subtitle.

Sports event coverage. Footage of an archery competition.

Sports event coverage. Footage of an archery competition in Stanley Park, July 16 and 17, 1949.

Special event footage. Footage of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Vancouver during their 1939 Canadian tour.

Documentary. Vancouver marks its 50th anniversary as a city. Includes shots of the procession to the new City Hall to mark the unveiling of a statue of Captain George Vancouver. The International Yacht Race on English Bay is also shown,

The fonds consists of Tom Whitefoot's amateur films depicting military parades, Vancouver scenery, highway trips in British Columbia and the Northwest, and local events such as Vancouver's Golden and Diamond Jubilees (1936 and 1946), the 1939 Royal Visit, the British Empire and Commonweath Games (1954), and the city's first Grey Cup game (1955).

Travelogue. Sights of Vancouver: Lions Gate Bridge, City Hall, ships and log booms in harbour, Stanley Park (including Lumberman's Arch pool and Lost Lagoon), sailboats, skiing on Grouse Mountain, etc.

Out-takes. Footage of the Vancouver skyline; Lion's Gate Bridge construction; UBC (aerial views); ski jumping, Grouse Mountain or Mount Seymour; archery in Stanley Park; Stanley Park zoo; trolley bus at Stanley Park loop; etc.

Amateur film. Footage of golfers taking practice swings (b&w); the 1939 PNE parade (colour); and the 1939 World's Fair at Treasure Island, San Francisco.

Amateur film. Includes footage of Glacier National Park; the Trans-Canada Highway through Rogers Pass; passenger and freight trains; bears, etc.