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The item is an industrial film showing the construction of the Annacis road system and the Alex Fraser Bridge, which was officially opened in 1986.

The item is a travelogue film showing the history and attractions of the restored Gold Rush town.

The item consists of 2 reels of film out-takes showing the history and attractions of the restored Gold Rush town of Barkerville.

The item is a recreational video about Sport fishing in British Columbia, highlighting the various types of game fish, favoured areas, and fishing tips and lore. Discusses Steelhead, Pacific Salmon, Chinook, Tyee, Coho, and Kokanee. Locations include Campbell River, Kamloops, Stellako River, etc.

The item is a reel of industrial film. It depicts the design, construction and operation of the wooden-hulled fish packer "Canfisco", whose launching coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the Canadian Fishing Company. Includes scenes at the shipyard, in Vancouver harbour, and along the route to the northern end of Vancouver Island, where the company has a floating outpost called "Mills' Bay". Fishing boats transfer their catch to the "Canfisco", which heads back to Vancouver to unload at the company's Gore Road dock and cannery.

The item is a video interview on two cassettes containing recordings of discussions with Canadian authors at the Academy of Canadian Writers. Tape 1. Barry Broadfoot: "Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame" (30 min.) Sandy Duncan: [Adventure for Children]. (30 min.) The Korean Girl? {"Kap-Sung Ferris"] Tape 2. Eric Whitehead: "Cyclone Taylor" (20 min.) Jack Hodgins: #1. Spit Delaney's Island, #2. Creation of the World, (15 min).

The item is a video training film. It was produced to assist B.C. government staff in training to deal with the impact of Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy legislation on records management.

The item is a video copy of a travelogue film. Depicts highlights of Canada encountered on a trans-Canada journey from east to west on the CPR. B.C. footage includes: the Spiral Tunnels at Field (with train passing through); Field; open-topped railway observation car with sightseeing passengers; Glacier; Mt. Sir Donald; Albert Canyon; train en route in Fraser Canyon; fruit pickers; Vancouver (street scenes, Hotel Vancouver, Stanley Park, English Bay bathers); CPR steamers en route to Victoria.

The item is a promotional film. It describes the joint Canada-British Columbia Industrial Development Subsidy program, an initiative to improve employment opportunities and balanced development.

The item is a reel of educational film. A simulated disaster and demonstration of the role of the mobile Advance Treatment Centre and B.C. Emergency Health Service. The organization and operation of an advance treatment centre is demonstrated through an exercise using people with simulated injuries. Supplies and equipment transported in a single truck are used to establish a treatment centre in a high school gymnasium; "casualties" receive emergency attention and are evacuated to hospitals.

The item is a video copy of film consisting of unedited footage of the Kenney Dam construction and related activities of the Aluminum Company of Canada in the area of Tweedsmuir Park as well as May Day celebrations at Salmon Arm.

The item is a reel of amateur film made by Winstock A. Shilvock, who worked in advertising for Home Oil Distributors in the 1930's and also worked as Assistant Manager of the Pacific National Exhibition from 1939-1940. The reel contains miscellaneous footage: the opening of Vancouver International Airport (including RCMP musical ride); Home Oil gas stations; Home Gas Optimists on tour in Cariboo and in Victoria; race driver "Cannonball" Parker; logging trucks; Exhibition Park, including construction of Exhibition Gardens.

Documentary. Film record of the Anglican Congress of 1954.

The file consists of 21 film reels of unedited footage shot by filmmakers working under an Opportunities For Youth (OFY) grant to document archaeological projects all over British Columbia. These 21 reels record archaeological excavation work during the summer of 1972, in the following areas: F1992:07/010-013: Williams Lake/Riske Creek -- camp scenes, botanical collecting, area scenery, and work at site(s). F1992:07/014-016: Kamloops -- North Kamloops flood scenes, OFY survey team, crew moving camp, OFY camp and activities, excavation site and flooding. More flood scenes, clearing river debris, etc. Labelling and recording artifacts in lab. Kamloops Museum: interview with curator; kids on school tour. F1992:07/017-018: Musqueam -- Salish Park Development, gravehouse, excavation in pit, artifacts, cataloguing, school tour at site, etc. F1992:07/019-022: Libby I -- Travelling to site, area scenery, surveying, digging, camp scenes. F1992:07/023-027: Libby II -- Tipi construction, surveying, areas flooded (by dam construction?), digging and screening, artifacts, travelling by track and canoe, etc. F1992:07/028: Williams Lake/Deep Creek. F1992:07/29-30: Unidentified.

The series consists of 9 reels of unedited footage shot by filmmakers working under an Opportunities For Youth (OFY) grant to document archaeological projects all over British Columbia. These 9 reels record the activities of Simon Fraser University archaeology field schools in the summer of 1972. Footage shows students travelling up the coast by boat (F1992:07/001); excavations, etc., at Kwatna (F1992:07/002-005) and Kimsquit (F1992:07/007-009); work in the SFU archaeology lab; and displays at the SFU Museum of Archaeology (F1992:07/006).

Collection consists of moving images collected or acquired by the BC Archives from a wide variety of donors. Subjects include the entire range of British Columbia history and cover most geographic areas of the province. They include commercially produced industrial and promotional films as well as amateur productions.

The item is a video recording of a cable program about the work of painters Max Maynard and Emily Carr.

The item is a videotape of an interview with painter Max Maynard, interviewed by Erika Kurth for the Cable 10 program Arts Calendar. Also includes interview with Peter Macnair of Ethnology Division, BC Provincial Museum.

The item is an off air recorded video. The first segment of this Arts Calendar broadcast features an interview with Robert Amos about the proposed closure of the Emily Carr Gallery.

The file consists of video coverage of the Associated Country Women of the World 17th triennial conference, Vancouver, Canada. Overall view of conference activities, June 21-27, 1983, with narration and speakers.

Magazine. Provincial Archives of BC employees Barry Byers and Kerry Dodd discuss the Emily Carr Gallery exhibition, "Emily Carr: A Conservator's Examination". Video master?

The item is a video recording of a magazine program. Christina Johnson-Dean discusses the exhibit, "The Crease Family Archives", currently showing at the Provincial Archives of B.C.

Promotional. Depicts the advantages of senior citizens living in care homes. Release print.

The item is a video made at a BC Association of Colleges conference held at Douglas College. In it, the Hon. Dr. Pat McGeer, Minister of Education, discusses his view of the post-secondary education system with the college principal.

The item is a promotional video about the engineering technology program at BCIT, and the careers it leads to.

The item consists of 10 videotaped interviews about the history of Beacon Hill Park in Victoria. Interviewees are Herb Warren (tape 01 & 06), Al Smith and Bert Cox (02), Ainslie Helmcken (03-05), Al Smith (07), Bert Cox and Dick Green (08), Louise Iverson (09), and Louise Iverson and Sam Gardner (10).

The item is a video documentary produced to commemorate the centennial of Beacon Hill Park, Victoria.

The item consists of nature videos. Fictional narrator uses motion picture camera to track big game in Tweedsmuir Park and Cassiar district. Subjects include mountain caribou, mountain goats, grizzly bear, California bighorn sheep, whitetail deer, elk, stone sheep, moose and Osborn caribou.

The item is a video travelogue. Highlights the Thompson and North Thompson regions, the Yellowhead and the Rockies, approaching from Vancouver via the Fraser Canyon. Footage includes white water rafting, Nicola Valley cattle ranching, fishing, Kamloops, North Thompson Overlander Raft Race, Wells Gray and Mount Robson Provincial Parks, Shuswap Lake, Three Valley Gap, Canyon Hot Springs, Rogers Pass, mountain climbing.

The series consists of unedited footage on 58 video cassettes and were made by Fred Easton and the B.C. Legal Education Project, a project funded jointly by the Federal Department of Justice and the Legal Services Society. The project's purpose was to record the community hearings of the British Columbia Royal Commission on Uranium Mining, and to produce a one-hour video documentary. The video material includes footage of commission members making on-site inspections of active uranium exploration sites (V1988:50/44-48), and of the September 1979 press conference at which the commission released its first interim report (V1988:50/58). There are also interviews with commission chairman David Bates (V1988:50/23), Environment minister Rafe Mair (V1988:50/52-53), and Health minister James Hewitt (V1988:50/49-51).