Identifier:
- AAAA0583 (Source: http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/british-columbia-salmon-from-sea-to-can)
Date produced: 1945
Filmmaker(s):
George J. Alexander
Production credits:
Country of Production:
Canada
Languages:
English
Duration:
00:28:11
Length:
1015 ft
Format:
16mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound Notes:
Silent
Awards/Recognition:
BC Archives list of titled amateur films.
Description:
"Shows the salmon spawning cycle, methods of commercial purse-seine and gillnet fishing, and processing of the catch at the cannery; includes footage of an "Iron Chink" salmon butchering machine. Filmed at unspecified locations on the BC coast." (BC Archives)
Additional credit: "Produced by the British Columbia Provincial Fisheries Dept."
Resources:
Duffy, Camera West (1986), entry #B/65.
Locations:
- Pacific Coast, BC (Filming)
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Repository:
BC Archives film collection, Royal BC Museum
Screenings:
- A 25-minute sound version of this film was previewed in Victoria in September 1948; this was probably the film later entitled Let's Go Fishing. See Victoria Times, 8 September 1948, p.21.: Victoria, BC
Amateur Cinema