Snow scenes with the family at home and in Inner Harbour. Spring flowers and a parade on Government Street. A visit to a hydroelectric dam (1950)

One of a series of amateur motion picture films by Mathew Ko. Family at residential house [number 60?]. Decorated Memorial Arena entrance, people seated with programs for concert, rear view of band on platform, brass instruments seen left. Scene change: children playing in snow with broom, walking down steps, making snow piles. Ship at dock, front view. Family walks in snow on Government Street, rear view of ‘Unknown Soldier’ statue with Empress Hotel seen right. Ship sails, children playing in snow, young boy with mittens hanging from coat sleeves poses with vehicle. View of downtown Victoria from residential street, cars driving in snow, young boy eats snow, girl builds snowman, snowplough comes through street. Children feeding ducks in snow, frozen duck pond. Change scene: yellow and red tulips, bluebells in bloom, bees getting nectar in flowers, children take turns posing with tulips. Children in fancy dresses pose for pictures, some with bouquets. Parade of cars, marching women in traditional dress. Signage: “sweet Caporal Cigarettes.” Chinese Public School stairs lined with people, presentation with crowd on street. Girls pose for pictures. Parade through Government Street of cars, floats, CCBA members, women in traditional Chinese dress, baton twirlers, marching bands with legislature in background. Girls in shiny dresses, twirling in yard, celebration in park with Shriners, dance performances, martial arts demonstration. Family looking down from a view on a cement platform of rushing water from a hydroelectric dam and a forested area. Family picnic. 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

• Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America
• Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (Victoria, B.C.)
• Amateur films
• Empress Hotel (Victoria, B.C.)
• Parades
• Memorial Arena (Victoria B.C.)
• Gizeh Temple (Victoria, B.C.)

Date created

• 1950

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 00:16:38

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria

Coordinates

• 48.4359, -123.35155

Chronological coverage

• 1950

Additional physical characteristics

• Kodak 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

• 2013-033.1.09

Fonds title

• Mathew Ko fonds

Fonds identifier

• AR480

Date digitized

• March 4, 2014

Technical note

• Metadata by Lauren Chancellor
• Double-perf color reversal. B-wind. Kodachrome stock with 1948 and 49 Kodak date codes. Weak splices throughout had to be reinforced. Some splices jump. Shrunken. 18 FPS. Digitized by The Media Preserve
• additional metadata by MT
• NTSC 525
• 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/t39a-cv64