Film Record: Stanley Park

Identifier:

• AAAA2788 (Source: http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/stanley-park-plus-out-takes)

Date produced: 1939

Filmmaker(s):

Oscar C. Burritt

William F. Houston

Donald E. Lytle

Malcolm C. Morrison

James R. Pollock

Production credits:

• Oscar C. Burritt, Consultant
• William F. Houston, Consultant
• Donald E. Lytle, Consultant
• Malcolm C. Morrison, Director
• James R. Pollock, Consultant

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:16:00

Length:

533 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

BC Archives list of titled amateur films.

Description:

"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)

Resources:

"Item AAAA2788 - Stanley Park : [plus out-takes]." Oscar and Dorothy Burritt fonds, British Columbia Archives.
Donald Lytle, telephone conversation with D.J. Duffy, November 11, 1985.

Locations:

• Stanley Park, BC (Filming)

Club Affiliation:

Coast Films

Subjects:

• Nature
•      Geography
•           Beaches
• Recreation
•      Sports
• Settlements
•      Cities and towns

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

BC Archives, Royal BC Museum

Screenings:

• February 1, 1999: Included in the program "Creative Filmmakers in 1940s Vancouver" at the Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival: Victoria, BC

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