Road trip to a lookout and beach with the family. Scenes with friends and family at Empress Hotel, Legislature. Christmas with the family at home, and children playing (1950)

One of a series of amateur motion picture films by Mathew Ko. Children eating chocolate covered ice cream bars near parked cars at Malahat summit. Family at a lookout towards Finlayson Arm and mountains in the background. Children playing in the beach with logs and a boat. Driving along a forest lined road, in front of a copper-coloured bridge. People visiting interior and exterior of Empress Hotel, Legislature lawn and Beacon Hill Park rose garden. Stone bridge over a duck pond surrounded by trees as people in the park beside it. Family scenes outside residential home. Golden Dragon restaurant, children playing outside in the evening and walking into house. Christmas tree and lights inside home. Woodward's Department Store, young boy in cowboy costume, people leaving a house. Church procession, family in the city, waving at the camera, children playing with yo-yos, shots of yellow croci and other flowers. These clips were initially intended for home, personal use. Silent film.

In Collection:

• Mathew Ko Colour Films : Victoria's Chinatown and Region

Creator

• Ko, Mathew, 1909-2000

Subject

• Beacon Hill Park (Victoria, B.C.)
• Amateur films
• Empress Hotel (Victoria, B.C.)
• Butchart Gardens Ltd.
• Crystal Gardens (Victoria, B.C.)

Date created

• 1950

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 00:09:50

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria--Beacon Hill Park
• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Victoria--Butchart Gardens

Coordinates

• 48.55032, -123.49521
• 48.41222, -123.36243
• 48.4359, -123.35155

Chronological coverage

• 1950

Additional physical characteristics

• Kodachrome 16mm

Physical repository

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

Collection

• Mathew Ko Colour Films, Victoria's Chinatown and Region

Provider

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

Genre

• color films (visual works)
• motion pictures (visual works)

Archival item identifier

• 2013-033.1.08

Fonds title

• Mathew Ko fonds

Fonds identifier

• AR480

Date digitized

• February 3, 2014

Technical note

• NTSC 525
• Metadata by Lauren Chancellor
• additional metadata by MT
• The Media PreserveDouble perf Color Reversal. B-Wind. Film is shrunken. 1950 & 1953 Kodak date codes. Opening cement splices repaired. Digitized at 18 fps. Digitized by The Media Preserve
• mp4

Rights

• Contact UVic Special Collection and University Archives for reproduction requests (fee for reproductions). This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/90a1-yz79