Amateur film. The Canadian Olympic team is shown travelling to Europe by ocean liner in summer 1936, with footage of Paris en route. There is a long sequence showing events at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, including shots of medalist Jesse Owens [probably] and of the zeppelin "Hindenburg". Footage of London (on the way home) includes the Changing of the Guard.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Victoria High School project RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1975-07-19 SUMMARY: Chuck Chapman: high school grad, 1928; Ira Dilworth; school sports -- rugby, soccer, basketball. Bill Roper's gym classes. Clyde Campbell as basketball coach. Vic High team games: Patricks, Pedens, Ch;apmans. Victoria Cougars, 1920s at Patrick Arena. Famous Victoria athletes. Victoria College team, Peden brothers team, Commercials, Blue Ribbons and later Dominoes (Art and Chuck only two players to ;be on 5 Canadian Championship Teams), Olympic Games (2 Chapmans and Doug Peden with Windsor Fords) in 1936. Trip to Berlin (first TV Chapman had seen at Games). Hitler youth. Bomb shelters under Olymp;ic buildings. Clay outdoor basketball courts. Silver medalists. Other events at games. Jesse Owens. Trip back to Canada. Jobs Chapman has worked at. Dominoes of 1946. Lacrosse in Victoria. Billie race;s. Pedens. Victoria in the 1920s and '30s.;

SUMMARY: Douglas Peden: high school; Bill Roper; basketball in 1920s and '30s; Pedens, Patricks, Chapmans; sports at high school; debating society; Ira Dilworth; blue ribbons. 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin -- silver medalists. Discussion of the Games, and Europe in 1936. Canadian teams. Post-war Dominoes, 1946. Hornets in Vancouver. Victoria basketball. Other sports Peden competed in: rugby, track, baseball; tennis, etc. Six-day bicycle racing. Madison Square Gardens. Brother "Torchy". North American bike circuit. Best paying sport of the time.

SUMMARY: Douglas Peden: Bike celebrates; speed records; techniques in races; regulations; structure of bikes. Newspaper career: high school sports writers from Vic High; high school students on Times staff; athletes known and met. Victoria athletes.