''Camera West'' is a
Canadian
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...
documentary television series which aired on
CBC Television
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from 1964 to 1967.
Premise
This series of mid-year documentaries was produced in Vancouver and concentrated on life in western Canada and featured varying topics.
Scheduling
The first run of this half-hour series was broadcast on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 1 July to 16 September 1964. In the following seasons it was seen on Sundays, 10:30 p.m. in the second season (11 July to 12 September 1965), 10:00 p.m. in the third season (3 to 24 July 1966) and finally 5:30 p.m. in its fourth season (16 July to 24 September 1967).
Episodes
;1964 season
* "Circles of Power" (Michael Rothery producer; Peter Haworth writer), a two-part series on witchcraft
* "Ghost of Walhachin" (Tom Connachie producer and writer), about a British Columbia settlement
* "The Fountain of Youth" (Doug Gillingham), about a health farm
* "The Good Citizens" (Doug Gillingham producer; Hilda Mortimer writer), a two-part series about Chinese Canadians in the west
* "Shawnigan" (George Robertson writer and director), featuring the private Victoria-area Shawinigan Lake School for boys
* "Strange Gray Day, This" (Maurice Embra producer), featuring poet and artist
bill bissett
* "Through the Looking Glass" (Michael Rothery producer; David Gray writer), regarding LSD's clinical use
* "Tricks or Treatment" (Gordon Babineau), about hypnotism
* "Whatever Happened to the Horse?"
;1965 season
* "Crystal Prize", about an international ski competition at Crystal Mountain, Washington
* "The Heart of the Thing", about
Emily Carr
Emily Carr (December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945) was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was a vivid writer and chronicler of life in her sur ...
* "Immigrant Impressions": recent immigrants to
Vancouver
Vancouver is a major city in Western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the cit ...
give their impressions of the city and various aspects of Canadian mores and culture
* "The Last Parade", about Portuguese immigrants in the Okanagan Valley
* "A Matter of Choice" (Stanley Fox producer); on British Columbia's Irish Fusiliers
* "Paul Kane"
* "Shawnigan" (rebroadcast from 1964)
* "The Islanders" (George Robertson producer), about the
Gulf Islands
The Gulf Islands is a group of islands in the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia Coast, mainland coast of British Columbia.
Etymology
The name "Gulf Islands" comes from "Gulf of Georgia", the original term used by Geor ...
;1966 season
* "Carole" (Gene Lawrence producer; Dave Brock writer), about Vancouver School of Art student Carole Thompson
* features on Vancouver's West End
* a documentary on how children have less creative initiative as they grow older
* an episode about the Lusitania's sinking, based on Len Chapple's radio documentary
References
External links
* {{Cite web , url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/CBC.html , first=Blaine , last=Allan , title=Camera West , publisher=
Queen's University , year=1996 , accessdate=7 May 2010 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924012734/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/CBC.html , archivedate=24 September 2015
CBC Television original programming
1964 Canadian television series debuts
1967 Canadian television series endings