Royal Hudson Squamish Camera orig 16mm

Footage of Royal Hudson steam train, arriving in San Fracisco, other locations in California and arrival in Lower Mainland, BC, interviews with conductors, engineers and crowd, display of BC promotional materials including wax figures of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip and an Indigenous pole. B.C. Minister Grace McCarthy appears at arrival in BC. Head of film: "BC Gove Photobranch Travel Industry 7240 Mag S.O.F. K Spreitz orig rev col 259940 "Royal Hudson""

In Collection:

• Karl Spreitz Collection

Creator

• Spreitz, Karl, 1927-2016

Subject

• Travel
• Railroad trains
• McCarthy, Grace

Language

• eng

Identifier

• u998.41.4/7

Date created

• 1977

Relation

• Documentary available from Legacy Gallery:  https://legacy.uvic.ca/gallery/spreitz/royal-hudson/

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 00:23:29

Alternative title

• BC Gove Photobranch Travel Industry 7240 Mag S.O.F. K Spreitz orig rev col 259940 "Royal Hudson"

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Lower Mainland
• British Columbia--Squamish
• California--San Francisco
• California--Los Angeles

Coordinates

• 49.74933,-123.13736
• 34.05223,-118.24368
• 49.08333,-122.35
• 37.77823,-122.4425

Additional physical characteristics

• 16 mm

Physical repository

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

Collection

• Karl Spreitz Collection

Provider

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

Sponsor

• Digitized through the support of the BC History Digitization Program, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia.

Genre

• color films (visual works)
• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• documentary film

Archival item identifier

• 2016-026_53

Fonds title

• Karl Spreitz fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC570

Is referenced by

• https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/karl-spreitz-fonds

Date digitized

• November 11, 2020

Technical note

• Metadata by KH.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to textual records and photographs [or archival fonds] and reproduction requests; due to preservation concerns, access to original motion picture film and other audio visual formats is not permitted. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/hr5f-y548