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The item is a film print copy of a documentary film telling the story of the Sayward forest on Vancouver Island. Destroyed by fire on 5 July 1938 and subsequently reforested, the Sayward is now a valuable area for outdoor recreation. The film includes archival footage of the fire and the reforestation work, and an original score by folk singer Valdy helps to tell the story.

The item is a video copy of a documentary film, the story of the Sayward forest on Vancouver Island. Destroyed by fire on 5 July 1938 and subsequently reforested, the Sayward is now a valuable area for outdoor recreation. The film includes archival footage of the fire and the reforestation work, and an original score by folk singer Valdy helps to tell the story.

Industrial film. MacMillan Bloedel's approach to forest management and reforestation. Includes scenes of logging operations, forest fire fighting (Northwest Bay Division, Nanoose Bay), burned-over forest, Beaufort Tree Farm, tree planting, etc. Also brief shots of Vancouver (Hastings St.) and Victoria.

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Television shorts. Television commercial showing free public tours of MacMillan Bloedel's logging and forestry operations on Vancouver Island. Offered by the company in the summer of 1972 or 1973, the tours included log harvesting and handling, product manufacture and reforestation.

Footage. Heeling in bundled seedlings. Beacon Hill Park, Victoria: people feeling waterfowl at Goodacre Lake. A lookout station, and view from the top. Annual celebration at Peace Arch Park; shots of Premier Pattullo and Fred McGregor. Falls and rapids. Planting crew in Campbell River area: tent camp, bundled seedlings, planting shots. Tom Wells with seedlings at Green Timbers. Interior B.C. scenery.

Stock shots. Sequence of crew travelling by truck and climbing trees to collect cones; process shown in detail. Cones being unloaded at the extractor at Duncan Forest Nursery. Crew from Pacific Logging picking up bullet stock for planting.

The item consists of 10 reels (ca. 400 feet) of miscellaneous positive 16 mm footage, both b&w and colour, created between 1965 and 1974.

1. Reforestation: scenes of reforestation activity by MacMillan Bloedel around Harmac Tree Farm No. 19; silent colour answer print, November 9, 1970.
2. Revegetation : Placer Development Ltd. shows Conair small aircraft being loaded, flying over mine, soil sampling; silent colour positive.
3. Japanese oranges : unloading of oranges from the ship "Puna", children eating oranges; silent b&w, 1971.
4. Japanese oranges : variation of footage in item 3; silent b&w, 1971.
5. Pacific Centre opening : shots in around Pacific Centre including TD bank facility; silent b&w, October 28, 1971.
6. Japanese oranges: unloading ship "Sultana" at dock; silent col., 1974.
7. NDP commercial: TV spot for NDP shows housewife washing dishes; b&w, 1965.
8. Hire a student, Endako Mines: blasting, explosion, shots of mining and laboratory activity with student employees; silent col., June 11, 1973.
9. Revegetation: Place Development Ltd., duplicate print of no. 2
10. Magnussen great moments: Shots of Karen Magnussen skating, portrait being painted; silent col.

Promotional film. Uses contemporary and historical footage to show how BC's 1.8 million hectares of NSR (Not Satisfactorily Restocked) land is being turned back into productive forestland. Shows past and present reforestation work at the sites of the Paul fire near Houston, the Campbell River fire (1938) and the Sue fire (1971). Scenes of land clearing, slash burning, planting, etc.

Promotional film. Uses contemporary and historical footage to show how BC's 1.8 million hectares of NSR (Not Satisfactorily Restocked) land is being turned back into productive forestland. Shows past and present reforestation work at the sites of the Paul fire near Houston, the Campbell River fire (1938) and the Sue fire (1971). Scenes of land clearing, slash burning, planting, etc.

Stock shots. First section shows the planting of mudpacked seedlings by a planting crew for Pacific Logging in the Fleet River area. (The shot list emphasizes that this footage is not meant to illustrate production planting, but only as an example of the mudpack method.) Second section shows aerial planting of bullet seedlings and frozen mudpack seedlings from an Avenger aircraft for Pacific Logging.

Television stock shots

Stock shots. Shows tree planting crew at work on a burned-over hillside overlooking Brewster Lake.