[BCMA] Archival Film Screening in Vancouver

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Media release below. For more information and to purchase tickets, see 
http://www.viff.org/tixSYS/vifc/filmguide/event.php?EventNumber=1712

City of Vancouver information bulletin
November 24, 2009

Historic Vancouver films show for first time

Films from the City of Vancouver Archives' holdings dating back to 1926
and digitized at high resolution will be shown on a big screen for the
first time:

		When: Sunday, November 29 at 2 pm
		Where: Vancity Theatre
		1181 Seymour Street
Two of the films were found in a time capsule removed from the Sunset
Memorial Centre before it was demolished: a newsreel of Bing Crosby's
visit to Vancouver in 1948 to raise funds for the Sunset Memorial
Centre, and a film showing the construction of the original centre in
1949. The time capsule was not opened until 2008. 
Other rare footage includes home movies of Eric Hamber, former
Lieutenant-Governor of BC; World War I flying ace Albert Earl Godfrey
taking off in his plane from the Royal Canadian Air Force base at
Jericho Beach in 1928; and things to do in Stanley Park in the 1930s and
1940s.
Screening will be accompanied by a live musical performance.
Presentations will be made by local film producer/historian Rick
Schmidlin (Touch of Evil, Greed ), Leslie Mobbs, City of Vancouver
Archivist and Director, Records and Archives Division and Sue Bigelow,
Digital Conservator with the City of Vancouver. 

City Archives videos
<http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/webpubhtml/qbes/movies.htm>  are
available online at: www.vancouver.ca


Sue Bigelow
Digital Conservator
City of Vancouver Archives
1150 Chestnut Street 
Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9 
Tel 604.829.4271 
Fax 604.736.0626 

http://vancouver.ca/archives
See us on YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/user/VancouverArchives> 
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