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Activism posters and flyers

Series consists of 20 posters of various sizes, some in colour but most are printed or copied with black ink only. Many of the posters announce events presented or sponsored by the Progressive Workers' Movement (P.W.M.). Numerous are protesting the Vietnam War.

[B.C. Parks sign and maintenance shop in Colwood]

News item. Examples of BC Parks signs are shown on site at Goldstream, Bamberton, Koksilah and a B.C. Forest Service nursery. Footage shows worker carving letters for a wooden sign at the BC Parks sign and maintenance shop in Colwood. Shop manager Ray Ramsey explains that there are five different sections to the shop -- carpentry, painting and screening, sign carving, metal work, and plastic work. There are 18 employees. Interview with a wood carver who has done this job for 18 years.

[Burritt miscellany, reel 4]

Footage. B&W: "Boardman-Shaw Ltd. Creative Printing" storefront, with sign indicating move to Dominion Bank Bldg; ext & interior shots of Dominion Bank Building at Cambie & Hastings in Vancouver [Agfa reversal stock]. Negative shots of a man smoking a cigar in "Capitol Printers" [Dupont negative stock]. Colour: shots of downtown Seattle, mainly at night, particularly of neon signs (ca.100 ft.) [Kodachrome, edge code 1937].

[Burritt miscellany, reel 6]

Footage. Vancouver footage: shots of neon, electric signs and traffic lights at night [edge code 1940]. New York footage (including Times Square): shots of neon signs, city lights; quite good photography [edge code 1954].

[Burritt miscellany, reel 7]

Footage. Colour [Dufaycolor process]: shots of Vancouver skyline and Hotel Vancouver (the latter matching a shot in the film 'AND-'). B&W [Agfa stock]: underexposed night shots on and from a streetcar passing through downtown Vancouver on New Year's Eve, 1937 - passengers (including Dorothy Fowler), some in party hats; big Christmas tree, theatre marquees and electric signs. Scenes in nightclub with jazz band; trick shot of man "sucking in" smoke rings. Dorothy, Oscar Burritt and others swimming; Dorothy taking photos. Colour: brief shots of Oscar posing with unidentified man and woman in front of a sightseeing bus [Kodachrome, edge code 1938].

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