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The series consists of 43 films created or collected by the Forest Service between ca. 1922 and 1965.

The item is a reel of documentary film. "This film shows the many uses of Caterpillar tractors, including supplying power for pneumatic drills and air hammers, ditching, excavation work, and hauling, both on clear ground and snow-covered terrain. Also includes shots of a portable crane loading steel onto a truck, and a railway car. Shots also of an old portable loader and a steam engine passing at speed. This film may not have been filmed in B.C." (Colin Browne)

The item is a newsreel film show news events around the world in 1939.

The item is a reel of documentary film showing the effects of forest fires on wildlife, and methods of restocking areas with deer and trout.

The item is a reel of documentary film. "'A film dealing with the salmon fisheries on the world's greatest salmon stream, showing the methods of catching and the preparation of fish in the canneries. This is one of the series of subjects on Canada's extensive fisheries.' Map of Canada, pointing to the Skeena, then a map of British Columbia with the Skeena being pointed out. Fish boats strung across the mouth of the Skeena on a cloudy day, engaged in drift-netting. Broadside shot of fishing trawler "Jedway" with many smaller sailboats in tow. Long Line of small boats from astern, good [close-ups] of boats in tow. Once at the fishing ground the small boats break away, hoist their sails and head for a likely spot. Gill-netting only is allowed, so boats let out nets, one man rowing, the other tending net. The men pull their nets in to reveal their catch. [Log shot of] cannery from the river. Nets drying at a cannery, a boy on the wharf mending his net, an old timer with beard in an iris shot. The salmon, still alive, are placed aboard a trawler and taken to the cannery. Crates of salmon being lifted off trawler onto the wharf and then moved into the cannery shed. Fish being gutted in the cannery. The backbone is removed. Rows of girls washing the fillets. The salmon are packed in bulk and mildly cured, with a little salt, in barrels. A barrel is sealed. The barrels are rolled out onto the wharf and loaded onto a steamer for "eastern canneries" or "foreign countries". [Long shot of] the steamer sailing away in an iris." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of film out-takes. "Arrival of 'Princess Marguerite' off Victoria, carrying King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Fireworks. Good shot of B.C. Provincial Police lined up on their horses. Small boats milling about under Lion's Gate Bridge. Stern of the 'Prince Robert' at wharf. Soldiers in scarlets and busbies parade on wharf. King and Queen arrive, inspect Guard and leave aboard the 'Prince Robert'. In the sky, words read: "Will ye no come back again?" Three planes fly in formation overhead. King and Queen drive through stone gates. Girls perform Maypole dance. Kids with Union Jack wave and cheer. Vets look on. Banner over arch: 'Welcome to the Municipality of Maple Ridge.' Another banner: 'Coquitlam welcomes Our King and Queen.' More banners. Train entering Vancouver. Parliament Buildings, Empress Hotel and Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, 'Prince Robert' and two destroyers sail under the Lion's Gate Bridge. This reel does not tell a coherent story but is rather a collection of various scenes around Vancouver and Victoria in no particular order." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of industrial film about the wartime logging of Sitka spruce in BC, to be used in the manufacture of aircraft such as the Mosquito bomber. Includes shots of logging and milling operations and Davis rafts, as well as some shots of aircraft.

The item is a reel of film footage. "Fifth of five reels of B.C. Forest Service out-footage and duplicates from their filming of the Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Vancouver and Victoria in May 1939. Scenes include: Motorcade to the front steps of the Parliament Buildings, Victoria. Bunting on Victoria City Hall. Bunting and flags in Oak Bay. Black cars in clogged street, bunting on buildings, one says "C.C. Brown Motors" -- Esquimalt? Pipe band marches down crowded street. In Vancouver, a series of welcoming banners stretched across the streets from "The Sons and Daughters of England", "Israel's Throne", "Sons of Norway", "Municipality of Maple Ridge" and "Port Coquitlam". At Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, the King and Queen leave the reviewing stand with Premier Pattullo and other VIPs. The King inspects the Guard of Honour. Sailors march past. Vets march through crowds. Men roll up the red carpet after the King and Queen have departed. New scenes, possibly at Oakalla: B.C. Provincial Police grooming and saddling their horses. BCPP insignia on saddle blanket. BCPP sign on building. Parade of B.C. Provincial policemen, mounted, leaving their stables and riding past. Large squad of B.C. Provincial policemen ride toward camera. (Oakalla was the mainland HQ for the mounted troop of the BCPP.)" (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of film footage. "Fourth reel of duplications and out-footage from the B.C. Forest Service's documentation of the Royal Visit of 1939. Scenes include: Huge parade of veterans with crowds near Pattullo Bridge in New Westminster, a building across the street called "Pacific Motors". [Steamship] "Prince Robert" leaving Victoria. "Will ye no come back again" captioned across the sky. People on the breakwater, Victoria, watching the ship carry the Royal couple back to Vancouver. Planes fly over Lion's Gate Bridge, Vancouver. Children dance around the maypole to honour the King and Queen. Crowds of people. Parade of veterans. King and Queen, preceded and followed by many cars, drive around a curve in the road. A ceremonial Welcome arch in Saanich. A sign reading "Saanich School Children", kids waving flags. King and Queen drive over a wooden bridge under Saanich arch, throngs of people cheering and waving flags. Lunch at a picnic table for a family. Street in Esquimalt (?) with cars and buildings decorated. Highland band marches past." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of film footage. "Third reel of outs and duplications from. the B.C. Forest Service's documentation of the Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Vancouver and Victoria in May 1939. Scenes include: The ceremonies at Parliament Buildings, Victoria. Soldiers marching on Belleville Street, Victoria. King and Queen leaving Parliament Buildings, getting into limousine. Highlanders marching past Empress Hotel. King and Queen arriving at Empress Hotel, Victoria. King and Queen leaving Beacon Hill Park, Victoria. Fireworks. Duplication of King and Queen leaving the Parliament Buildings and arriving at the Empress Hotel. B.C. Provincial Police lined up for inspection. Welcome sign on old Post Office, Victoria. Decorations in the streets of Victoria. Parliament Buildings, decorated. Fireworks." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of film footage. "The second of five reels of Royal Visit shot by the B.C. Forest Service. Scenes include: A shed with Union Jacks strung along clothesline. Parliament Buildings decorated. Decorated hedges and fence. Welcome sign on the old Victoria Post office. Belmont Building decorated, Victoria. Streetcars, bicycles, cars, all stores decorated -- excellent shots of busy Victoria streets just prior to arrival of King and Queen. Ships decorated in Inner Harbour, Victoria. [Long shot of] Government House. [Medium shot of] Union Jack rippling in the wind. Royal motorcade descends Government Street then passes by Empress Hotel. Decorated ships in Victoria's Inner Harbour. [Long shot of] Belmont Building and Government Street, Victoria, with crowds, from the Parliament Buildings. Pan up Parliament Buildings from front steps. Crowds and cedar arches in Beacon Hill Park. Naval band. Children dancing in Beacon Hill Park. King and Queen arriving at Beacon Hill Park, driving through cedar arches. Rolling up the red carpet on the reviewing stand, after the King and Queen have left, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of film footage. "There exist five reels of different lengths containing miscellaneous and often duplicated shots of the Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Vancouver and Victoria in May of 1939, photographed by the B.C. Forest Service. This reel contains: King and Queen passing in open car. Fleet of small sports cars driving by. A huge paper crown. Billboard of the King and Queen reading WELCOME. Garden at the Empress Hotel, Victoria. Tumultuous parade down Government Street, Victoria. Masts of CPR ferry "Princess Marguerite" flying pennants, entering harbour, Victoria. Soldiers marching up to Parliament Buildings, Victoria. King arrives and inspects troops. King begins to ascend red carpet onto steps of Parliament Buildings. Beacon Hill Park, decorated evergreen archways, crowds in stands, Naval [close-up] of Queen and King arriving at Beacon Hill Park. Naval band marching past. King and Queen arrive at reviewing stand." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of industrial film. A prologue on the historical background and importance of logging in B.C. leads into discussion of forest management principles and forestry techniques. Scenes include the B.C. Forest Service nursery at Duncan; tree planting and thinning; and logging.

The item is a reel of documentary film. "'[In] this educational film, replete with scenic beauties, is depicted, in graphic manner, the lumbering operations, from the felling of the giant trees to the export shipping of the finished product.'" View up a tall Douglas fir. At the base two men are examining the trunk. Two notches are cut and springboards placed in them. The two men test the springboards, then make an undercut with saw and axe, both men chopping. The men test the direction of the falling tree by putting the head of the axe into the notched undercut and sighting down the handle. They begin to saw through from the other side with a Swedish fiddle. The tree falls, five men stand on the stump. View of the end of the tree, shot of the length of the tree. Two buckers arrive and begin to saw the tree into manageable lengths. [Long shot] high rigger at the top of a spar after topping. A log is lifted off the ground by a steel cable. Good view of a donkey engine working. Log moving down skid-way. Head-on shot of log plunging into a pond with spectacular spray. Logs are formed into Davis rafts in the bay. [Long shot] large boom of logs. Logs piled at the mill, a donkey working, sheds, etc. Good shot of a heap of logs with red ensign on a boat in the [foreground]. Logs being loaded onto a BC Electric flatcar. Train moves out on way to mill, passing a little station, etc. [Long shot] Hastings Saw Mill with rafts and booms of logs spread out before it. Log being drawn up endless chain into the saws. Shot of booms. Good shots of log on carriage being squared by saw with operator in [foreground]. Men receiving lumber on green chain. Scene in the lumber yard where lumber is being sorted, graded and piled. Big timbers being pushed down a ramp into a pile. Long timbers on a speeder on the [railroad] tracks in the mill. Long timbers being loaded onto a chute where they slide down onto a pile of lumber." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of promotional film. "Young men building huts in a nearly completed camp. Fire fighting practice. Building a bridge abutment. Splitting shakes with a froe. Snag falling. Bucking firewood. Men fighting a fire with hand tools and a bulldozer. After fire, men showering, having haircuts and washing up. [Close-up of] grub --meal on plate. Pay parade. [Long shot of] scenery on Vancouver Island. This short film was intended to interest young men in a career with the Forest Service, or a summer's employment." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of industrial film showing the world-wide marketing activities of a large forest products company, including communications networks, product research, market research and advertising. Also includes scenes of the Vancouver Stock Exchange and of product shipment.

The item is a reel of documentary film showing corporate and government research in forestry, project development and improvement of production processes. Includes scenes at the Federal Forest Research Laboratory in Victoria and the Forest Products Laboratory in Vancouver.

The item is a reel of industrial film showing the transportation of logs from the forest to the mill. The main part of the film follows a load of logs down the coast from Masset Inlet on Haida Gwaii aboard the self-dumping log barge "Haida Carrier", towed by the tug "Haida Chieftain". Also includes footage of logging trucks and the manufacture and shipping of forest products.

The item is a reel of industrial film showing the advance planning and site preparation that precedes actual logging in modern forest operations. Also includes scenes of cutting, spartree and booming operations, reforestation, maintenance, mill operations, etc.

The item is a reel of documentary film. "A lookout spots a fire and radios the information to a dispatcher at the Ranger Station. He relays the message to the Forest Fire Suppression Crew, who board a truck and drive to the scene of the blaze. Men use tools to confine the fire, which are explained in captions and shown in [close-up]: machete, special small-bladed shovel, Pulaski tool (combination grub-hoe and axe), grub-hoe, steel broom, gasoline torches (flame throwers), hand-pumped fire extinguishers containing water in back tanks. A car drives through the forest, a cigarette is dropped out of a window and a fire starts. A tank truck arrives and puts the fire out." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of film footage. "Four girls in uniform spelling TECH. Girl's drum-and-bugle corps marching onto field and playing. Scarlet jacketed pipe band playing while marching past crowded grandstand. New and old Queen arriving with dignitaries. Abdication speech. Dancing about Maypoles in the field. Old Queen placing crown on head of new Queen, new Queen smiling. TECH marching squad marching by. Fancy drill by TECH girls. Folk dancing by kids -- large crowds watching. Girl's drill team with staves. Boy's drill team doing semaphore. Making patterns on the field with shirt colours -- boys. Mt. Baker Union High School banner preceding their Highland band, which marches past. Boy's drill team with red, white & blue flags performing field-wide precision marching." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of film footage showing views of wildlife, children, trains, cabins, gardens and alpine country.

The item is a reel of promotional film about caterpillar tractors. "Showing the extensive use to which Caterpillar tractors and graders can be put in preparing an area for logging by putting in roads and fire traits. It also illustrates the wide variety of jobs performed by "cats" in actual logging work.' A Caterpillar Tractor advertising film. It includes scenes in Australia and Carolina, and may or may not contain sequences filmed in British Columbia." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of promotional film showing the uses of caterpillar tractors in the logging industry. Includes scenes from Australia, the Pacific Northwest and Carolina.

The item is a reel of educational film showing how forest fires are caused and how they can be prevented.

The item is a reel of film out-takes showing an annual celebration at the Peace Arch Park in Blaine, Washington on September 25, 1940.

The item consists of two reels of film footage showing miscellaneous outdoor scenery and wildlife shots. Also includes shots of a Trans-Canada Airlines passenger plane in flight and at Victoria Airport; the Gulf Islands from John Dean Park; Victoria houses, gardens, and streets; etc.

The item is a reel of film footage showing scenery, animals, and logging trucks in British Columbia.

The item is a reel of documentary film about observing, locating, reaching and fighting small forest fires. Shows the role of the lookout tower, the canoe, the railway gasoline speeder, the portable pump and the airplane (an HS2L flying boat).

The item consists of two items of footage wound on one reel.
Item 1: Views of shack camps, crew, fighting fires, log barges, Forest Service staff at Prince George, starfish.
Item 2: Views of cats, high riggers, train, Pattullo Bridge, Green Timbers Camp, crews and orchards.