A compilation film comprised of, "eight short films featuring native British wildlife, farm animals, or country scenes, including foxhounds at their kennels and a family of travellers cooking a meal by a country road. The final film features a model of an English village with model railway and country scenes in miniature" (EAFA).
"Cruise on Toketie. Coastal people, places and scenery between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Includes footage of Indian villages, pictographs, birds and wildlife, logging, other vessels, etc. Notably, there are good shots of the abandoned villages of Gwayasdums, Karlukwees, and Mamalilaculla, as well as the burial ground on Klaoitsis Island" British Columbia Archives.
"A family film with intertitles made for the Amateur Cinema League. The film follows the adventures of Herbert Miller, Jr., with his parents, his dog Chips, and his toys, including a pedal car and a teddy bear. Other segments show a ski trip to Mount Hood and a Miller's Paint store." Archives West.
"This film captures (in excellent pre-war Kodachrome) a day in the life of Stanley Park. An early effort at independent documentary production by a group of Vancouver film enthusiasts, including amateur cinematographers Oscar Burritt and Don Lytle. The Coast Films group intended to produce a series of films that could be distributed by the fledgling National Film Board of Canada, but World War II intervened, and this was their sole group effort. Stanley Park was restored in 1987 by the British Columbia Archives." (BC Archives)
"Stanley Park is a languid but lyrical look at flora and fauna, people at play, and the traffic of cars and ships in and around the park. . . . The excerpt shown here [on the AMDB] is the middle third of a 16-minute film [at 24 frames/second]. We see people arriving at the park on a weekend--by streetcar, by car, and on foot. The next sequence shows a very large audience watching a concert performance at Malkin Bowl. (The three young women on stage have probably just finished singing "Three Little Maids from School" from The Mikado.) There's an engaging sequence of children playing on the swings and seesaws; then there's footage of adults playing checkers and tennis, and another large crowd enjoying a cricket match. Scenes along the beach and the seawall (including the Second Beach Pool) lead into shots of boats and steamships sailing near First Narrows, and an ocean liner passing under the recently-completed Lion's Gate Bridge. Charles Marega's handsome Art Deco stone lions, poised at the eastern approach to the bridge, are shown in close-up." -- Seriously Moving Images, July 2025.
"This color film was shown at Duncan MacD. Little's 11th annual International show of amateur motion pictures. The rising sun greets the golden fairyland of Bryce. Tunnels cut through the rocks, car passing through. Shot after shot of beautiful scenery with lovely sky and cloud affects. People climbing. Camp life shows the rugged simplicity of the daily routine of outdoor life. Grand Canyon nature's mightiest spectacle. Sunset. The magic of stop-motion compresses time and hastens drifting clouds. Night draws a veil over flaming canyon and wonderland" Educational Film Guide, 1945 Edition, 412.
Total Pages: 299
Amateur Cinema