Service stations--British Columbia

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Amateur film by Winston A. Shilvock

The item is a reel of amateur film made by Winstock A. Shilvock, who worked in advertising for Home Oil Distributors in the 1930's and also worked as Assistant Manager of the Pacific National Exhibition from 1939-1940. The reel contains miscellaneous footage: the opening of Vancouver International Airport (including RCMP musical ride); Home Oil gas stations; Home Gas Optimists on tour in Cariboo and in Victoria; race driver "Cannonball" Parker; logging trucks; Exhibition Park, including construction of Exhibition Gardens.

[Booth Collection -- miscellaneous, reel 1]

Footage. 15 reels of varying lengths containing miscellaneous footage and outs, as follows: rainbow over lake and mountains, then shot of a man in a field who picks and measures a huge mushroom [78]; man and women hunt grouse near T.U. Auto Court [116]; man and dog stalk game, cowboy herds cattle [215B, 216]; freight train exiting tunnel and shots of tunnel repair work (Kettle Valley Railway?) [52]; lessons in the classroom of a girls' school [50]; various views of a small town situated beside a lake, and nearby roads used by lumber truck and two-horse wagon [90]; automotive shop with men repairing fender (of Booth's car?), and a sawmill in operation [49]; children's life in a mining town, with sailing at nearby lake [236]; aspects of a cordwood supply company [205B]; moose hunting trip by horseback, grouse hunters return to cabin, horse-drawn wagon delivers boats to lakeside [246A]; a caravan of cars leave a garage and head onto a highway where they pass a horse and buggy [227]; children and soldiers play miniature golf in a back yard, and man and boy fish from a boat [162].

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