Living sea 08 (1957-06-20) : city shores

A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Dr. Cowan explored the beaches in Vancouver B.C. and showed amazing numbers of sea creatures found there including tube worms, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, Polychaeta, different kinds of crabs, and sea snails. He also introduced the paddock clam, which can grind holes in solid rock and live in it, along with an octopus and the largest shell fish.

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Contributor

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010
• Bray, Ken

Subject

• Beaches
• Marine biology
• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010
• Marine animals
• Marine ecology

Publisher

• CBC Vancouver

Language

• eng

Identifier

• CBUT-9447-1

Date created

• June 20, 1957

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 film reel (00:28:44) : black and white ; 16 mm

Alternative title

• Living sea show 8

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Vancouver

Coordinates

• 49.24966, -123.11934

Physical repository

• Physical item housed at CBC Vancouver.

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• television programs
• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• documentary film

Technical note

• mp4. Digitization of the films was contracted by the CBC. Metadata by M. He. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/1k47-ng78