One Lump or Two..... 1950s BC Sugar documentary
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- čas přidán 7. 02. 2023
- The film was made in the 1950s by the British Columbia Sugar Refinery
This is a 1950s corporate documentary which was a very interesting style. I am not entirely sure who would have seen these back in the day.
The diners are written to be truly dim witted, laughably so.
I had no idea that back in the 50s BC's raw sugar came from Fiji
The film does a reasonable job of shopwing how the sugar is made on an industrial scale.
The film ends with the sugar sales job that it really does not have a lot of calories when compared to other foods.
Credits:
The diners in the Cock 'n' Bull Restaurant
Walter March - George
Cathryn Johnston - Ethel
Monty McFarlane - Howard
June Dixon - Betty
Reinhold Kellgren - Photography
Bill Newberry - Lighting
David Pomeroy - Sound
Lloyd Stump - Sound
Norma Jackson - Editing
Marguerite Roozeboom - Titles
Donald Monat - Writer and Director
Lew Parry - Prodicer
The film is public domain
I found the movie at the City of Vancouver Archives
AM1592-1-S3-: 2011-092.0535
searcharchives.vancouver.ca/o...
This is fascinating. I'm born and raised in Vancouver and my parents migrated from Fiji to Vancouver in the late 1960s. Over the past 5 years, I've been working with two professors from the University of Edinburgh to piece together my family history in relation to policies of labour and commodities within the British Empire. I'm going to send this video to the professors right now. Thank you for uploading.
i remember as a kid when we visited kannapali, maui and the sweet smell of the smokey air when they burned the sugar cane fields as the smoke headed out to sea...late 60s
Holy cow! I have a 16mm print of this. Unfortunately just 8 minuets of it from 16 to 24 minuets. To finally able to see the whole thing. I would love to have a print of this.
The City of Vancouver Archives have a copy,.
From their webpage:
Physical description
1 film reel (26 min., 30 sec. ; 291.23 m) : acetate, duplicate, release print, 24 fps, color positive, col., sound, optical track ; 16 mm
Restrictions on access
Playback of physical film restricted for preservation reasons.
I’d take issue with the title. I would place this film in the mid ‘60s.
Teh information I could find on the film speak to it being made between 1955 and 1959. If you can see anything specific that would indiacate a later date, please let me know
Filmed at the cock and bull restaurant!
Knight street at Hastings!
Thank you for that detail
A fairly typical corporate film of the 1960s, though this one was written and produced with more flair and professionalism than most. BC Sugar would have shown this film at shareholders' meetings, public events and to people visiting the refinery for factory tours. The restaurant scene is actually quite well-acted. Walter Marsh, who played George, was a veteran Canadian actor who enjoyed a long career in film, television and theatre. Monty McFarlane (George) was a popular Vancouver disk jockey and occasional actor. June Dixon, who played Betty, was the wife of the director, Donald Monat. Dixon and Monat were writers and performers (mostly in radio) from South Africa, who spent their latter years in Los Angeles. The narrator isn't credited, but it was probably Donald Monat.
The producer of the film, Lew Parry, started a film production company in Vancouver in the 1940s. He hired and trained many people who went on to have succcessful careers in filmmaking. In Wikipedia, he is described as "the father of the BC film industry".
THanks for the information