Film Record: Nature’s Submarines

Identifier:

• AAAA2059 (Source: http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/natures-submarines)

Date produced: 1949

Filmmaker(s):

G. Clifford Carl

Duration:

00:39:00

Length:

ca. 1400 ft.

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Colour

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

BC Archives list of titled amateur films.

Description:

"Marine mammals of the Pacific Coast: sea lions, sea otters, fur and harbour seals, porpoises, killer whales. Also: Indian whaling techniques; whaling ship Westwhale; processing of whale carcasses at Coal Harbour whaling station." (BC Archives)

Film includes some footage provided to Dr. Carl by the Western Whaling Corporation.

Resources:

Duffy, "Camera West", entry #N/14. B.C. Provincial Museum annual reports,1946 p. B9, 1947 p. F9, and 1948 p. K8.

Locations:

• Strait of Georgia, BC (Filming)
• Coal Harbour, BC (Filming)

Subjects:

• Indigenous peoples
• Industries
• Nature
•           Ocean
•           Ships

Genre:

• Educational
• Industrial
• Nature

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

BC Archives Moving Images Collection, Royal BC Museum

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