From the Vancouver International Film Festival:
VINTAGE VANCOUVER: ARCHIVAL FILMS FROM THE VANCOUVER CITY ARCHIVES
Sunday, November 18, 2:00 pm
Using 50 years of material, local historian Michael Kluckner guides us on a moving image journey into Vancouver’s past. With musical accompaniment by jazz pianist Wayne Stewart, this year’s highlights include home movies, park board films, experimental films, and on-the-fly documentaries.
Get a glimpse of 1950s Chinatown in Kodachrome. Watch the construction and opening of the Stanley Park Railway in 1964. Reminisce upon long-forgotten neon. Indulge in 1970s tourist attractions. Witness a 1981 protest against a controversial film on Granville Street.
Spend an afternoon with us and rediscover this great city by sampling a bit of its history.
Sunday, November 18, 2:00pm
Directed by: Various
(Canada, 95 min.)
VanCity Theatre (Seymour near Davie).
Word today of the death of “Whistling” Bernie Smith at the age of 89, relevant to this post for this 1975 NFB short. http://www.nfb.ca/film/whistling_smith/