The fonds consists of oral history interviews, radio programs, and other sound recordings, as well as scripts, notes, correspondence, photographs, two amateur films, and a drawing. This material was created or accumulated by Imbert Orchard during the production of oral history interviews and documentary radio programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Vancouver, and in his later career as a university professor and freelance radio producer.

SUMMARY: This program, "The Ocean Flight", is a radio play by Bertolt Brecht, translated from the German by Derk Wynand. In a 1950 prologue, the author requests that Charles Lindbergh's name be stricken from the play because of his pre-war sympathies for the Nazis.

The fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, manuscripts and production memoranda, mainly relating to A.D. Kean's feature film "Policing the Plains" (produced 1924-1927), as well as radio scripts (five annotated during production), clippings of the outdoor and cowboy life stories he wrote for the Toronto Star Weekly (ca. 1929-1936), and a video copy of his 1949 film "Fox Hunting in Canada".

Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, typescripts, and production memoranda relating to the life and career of A.D. "Cowboy" Kean. Many of the documents in this collection pertain to the making of "Policing the Plains" (1924-27), a dramatic silent film about the exploits of the North West Mounted Police. The collection also includes newsprint copies of Kean's popular yarns on cowboy and ranch life which appeared in the Toronto STAR WEEKLY (1929-1936), and scripts of some of Kean's radio plays about his experiences in western Canada.

Five annotated radio scripts from "Cowboy" Kean's 1938-1939 radio series, "Sails and Saddles".

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Dramatization on the history of advances in medicine -- in this case, the advent of ether as an anesthetic. [SIDE 2: blank.];

SUMMARY: "Tuesday's Child", a radio play by Vancouver actor and writer Fletcher Markle, is part two of a four-part "auto-bio-drama" series entitled "There Was A Young Man" that was broadcast within the radio drama series "Baker's Dozen". The play dramatizes events in the life of young man influenced by his encounters with women.

SUMMARY: First part of radio program with Bill Herbert, including performance of "Victoria's Hundred Years" (also entitled "Victoria Centenary"), written by Archie MacCorkindale, with unidentified actors, about: theatre, radio drama; Victoria, its history.

SUMMARY: Second half of radio program with unidentified announcer and performance of radio drama "Twelve Foot Davis".;

SUMMARY: Radio program with announcer Frank Williams and actors (named), about: democracy, history of suffrage; women's right to vote; British Columbia civic elections.;

SUMMARY: Radio program with Marce Munro presenting a drama written by James Beard.;

CALL NUMBER: T4250:0041 item 01 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1947-06-29 SUMMARY: Program #29 -- possibly done in Toronto, but label reads "For use at UBC summer school".;

CALL NUMBER: T4250:0041 item 02 RECORDED: [location unknown], [194-] SUMMARY: An excerpt from a radio broadcast of the play by William Shakespeare; produced and directed by Andrew Allan, with an original score by Lucio Agostini.;

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Radio adaptation of the classic drama, with a cast of Vancouver actors. [SIDE 2: blank.];

CALL NUMBER: T4237:0011 track 1 item 01a SUMMARY: This episode is about two rats who are running from a man called "the whistler".;

CALL NUMBER: T4237:0011 track 1 item 01b SUMMARY: This episode deals with a man named Kilroy, a mythic figure who has travelled all over the world, but has never been seen. He has been killed, and this story is about a newspaper trying to compile an; obituary.;

SUMMARY: "CBC Summer Theatre" was a series that featured new plays by Canadian writers. This episode is about a group of gold diggers who go down a well in search of riches -- and find uranium.;

SUMMARY: A radio adaptation of the classic drama -- presumably the 1804 play by Friedrich Schiller -- with a cast of Vancouver actors. Part 2 is not available.;

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Dramatization of events from international to local history. Written by Dick Diespecker and Dorwin Baird. [SIDE 2: blank.];

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Dramatization of events from international to local history. Written by Dick Diespecker and Dorwin Baird. [SIDE 2: blank.];

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Dramatization of events from international to local history. Written by Dick Diespecker and Dorwin Baird. [SIDE 2: blank.];

CALL NUMBER: SD0139:0036 SUMMARY: Dramatization of events from international to local history. Written by Dick Diespecker and Dorwin Baird. SIDE 1: Part 1. SIDE 2: Part 3.;

CALL NUMBER: SD0139:0037 SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Part 2. [SIDE 2: blank.];

SUMMARY: "Vancouver Theatre" was a series that featured new plays by Canadian writers, as well as adaptations of works from other media and from other countries. This episode, written by actor Arthur Hill, inv;olves two mythical towns in prairie Canada. The mayor of one, who is trying to improve his town, has insulted the mayor of the other town, and challenges him to a boxing match. In the end, however, th;e challenge gets changed to a curling match. [Incomplete.] (Program details from "CBC Program Schedule", January 25, 1948, p. 1.);

SUMMARY: "Vancouver Theatre" was a series that featured new plays by Canadian writers, as well as adaptations of works from other media and from other countries. "Once Upon a Moon", by Vancouver playwright and; humourist Eric Nicol, features a group of astronauts on the first expedition to the moon. There they meet the Man in the Moon, who convinces them that the moon is made of cheese, and that humans shou;ld not undertake further expeditions there. Incomplete off-air recording of a 1948 broadcast.;

SUMMARY: An episode from a series dramatizing events leading to the founding of Palestine, written by Dick Diespecker, narrated by Dorwin Baird, with a cast of Vancouver actors. SIDE 1: Part 1. SIDE 2: Part ;3. Other parts unavailable.;

SUMMARY: This episode is about a King who seeks help from a soothsayer to solve a problem. The ending of the program include audible remarks from the control room operator.;

SUMMARY: An episode from a series dramatizing events leading to the founding of Palestine, written by Dick Diespecker, narrated by Dorwin Baird, with a cast of Vancouver actors. SIDE 1: Part 1. SIDE 2: Part ;3. Other parts unavailable.;

SUMMARY: "Vancouver Theatre" was a series that featured new plays by Canadian writers, as well as adaptations of works from other media and from other countries. This episode is about a priest who has a worldl;y problem, and is mourning because of it. He wants to bring a pig home from the fair, but his wife [or housekeeper?] won't allow it. [Incomplete.] The play was previously produced at CBC Vancouver in ;1940. (Program details from "CBC Program Schedule", Jan. 30 - Feb. 5, 1949, p. 1.);

SUMMARY: A daytime drama (comedy) written by George Salverson.;

SUMMARY: A play by Ernest G. Perrault, presented by Thunderbird Theatre. Main actors are George Campbell, Jo Anne Walker, John Drysdale, and George Barnes.;

SUMMARY: First half of a play written by Charles Robinson, presented by Thunderbird Theatre. Main actors are Jo Steele, Nigel Nixon, Bob Russell, Rick Diespecker, Norm Richardson and Ralph Sullivan.;

SUMMARY: A comedy satire by Eric Nicol, presented by Thunderbird Theatre. Main actors are Earl McPherson, Quentin Robertson, Walt Pettes, George Campbell and Stan Tench.;