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The item is a video copy of a documentary program about the history of the British Columbia Provincial Museum.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A tour of the Provincial Museum RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963 SUMMARY: Dr. G. Clifford Carl walks around the Provincial Museum and describes some of the exhibits.

Stock shots. 1. Flood scenes - houses awash, roads washed out, etc. 2. Seaspan's Santa in the Inner Harbour. 3. More floods and washouts. 4. CUPE Local 727 on strike in a flood. 5. Snowstorm - car wrecks and toboggans. 6. Small oil spill? Divers. 7. Premier Bill Bennett and unidentified woman [Bella Abzug?]. 8. More flood footage. 9. CPR train wreck. 10. Flotsam and jetsam on the beach. Clean-up. 11. Burst pipes in Chinatown. 12. Nuns demonstrating. 13. Fire - good action shots. 14. BC Hydro pickets. 15. Glenshiel Hotel - seniors demonstrating. 16. Student rally against tuition increase. 17. Demonstration in front of the Legislature. 18. Royal visit - [given the date, probably Princess Alexandra]. 19. Lambrick Park Secondary - vandalism. 20. Sooke Forest Products. 21. Reception - Prince Charles and Grace McCarthy. 22. Damaged aircraft - light planes. 23. Airport arrival [of ?]. 24. Satellite dish at Legislature. 25. Fernwood News. 26. Fire at the British Columbia Provincial Museum. 27. Village Green Inn in Duncan. Police artist sketches. 28. Airport arrival - [state visit?]. 29. "The Daily Colonist" shuts down. 1858-1980. The last issue. 30. Moving a house through city streets. Saanichton School. 31. A satellite dish or telescope [?] on the Legislature lawn.

News item. The museum's new First Peoples Gallery on Northwest Coast Indians opens. Some good close-ups of totem poles and petroglyphs. The museum director is briefly interviewed about exhibit.

Series consists of 15 volumes of Provincial Museum visitor registers. Each volume contains the name of the visitor, the location of the visitor's residence, and the date of visit.

SUMMARY: Bill Herbert reports on the opening of the new British Columbia Provincial Museum in Victoria. Speech by Premier W.A.C. Bennett: origins of the museum, acknowledgements to various institutions, people;, etc. Bill Herbert interviews BCPM director Clifford Carl. They discuss the architecture of the museum building and the Heritage Court complex, then tour the museum, describing and discussing: the relief map of B.C.; the "rain curtain"; the Nootka whaling sculpture; the totem poles by the escalators; natural history exhibits on the second floor --dioramas, climactic regions [to be developed], specifically "the dry interior"; classrooms. Says it will take "several years to fill our exhibit space". Third floor: "Man in B.C." Conclusion by Herbert. Sound of the carillon playing.

SUMMARY: [No content information available.] Probably duplicates the content of T1778:0001.

11 black and white and 1 colour photograph depicting construction of the whaling canoe tableau made for the entrance to the bulidings of the Provincial Museum.

The fonds consists of photographs and other records from 1908 to ca. 1995, created or collected by Jim Ryan in the course of his career as a photographer. There are approximately 105,738 photographs, mostly black and white and colour negatives, but also including prints, slides and glass slides. The fonds also includes textual records consisting of news stories, copies of Ryan's publications, a few letters and other such material. The majority of the photographs were taken in the Victoria area and include images of the harbour, the city, buildings, events and parks. There are many photographs of British Columbia politicians, notably W.A.C. Bennett, as well as distinguished visitors, federal and local politicians. There are also photographs of local characters, children and ordinary people. Although most of the photographs were taken in the Victoria area, there are occasional images taken in other areas of Vancouver Island as well as some of Ryan's travel photographs. Some of the earliest material relates to World War I and may be Ryan family photographs or items that Ryan collected out of interest.

The fonds also includes motion picture film material, including completed films, production elements, news stories shot for television, and selected reels of footage.