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BC Power Commission 58/59 review
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British Columbia Power Commission. Public Information Division
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1958-1959 (Creation)
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1 film reel (ca. 550 ft) : colour/b&w, silent/sound ; 16 mm
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The item consists of reel of film footage from 1958-1959. It contains a spliced-together footage compilation showing various Power Commission operations: mobile 500KW diesel generating unit arrives in Revelstoke, cable-laying barge, boats and shore crew lay underwater line to Thetis & Kuper Islands, island residents celebrate at a picnic, where First Nations dancers perform, power plant construction & tunnel work at Ash River project on Great Central Lake [similar tunnelling shots in Men at Work], continuing through winter, completed Ash River Generating Station and penstock, shots of Chemainus sawmill and new power station.
B&W footage: official opening of Georgia Gas Turbine Generating Station at Chemainus -- people touring station, Premier W.A.C. Bennett and Commission chairman Hugh Keenleyside addressing crowd and on-site CHEK-TV interview [b&w, sound] with Premier Bennett re Power Commission development.
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Copyright British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority.
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Shot list in file F1984:11/050.
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References: Listed in Duffy, "Camera West", entry #B/56.
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Accession number(s): F1984:11
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Previously described as AAAA5252
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photography: British Columbia Power Commission; producing agency/company: British Columbia Power Commission. Public Information Division; photography: CHEK-TV