Web of life 01 (1964-03-04) : marsh world

This half-hour series was broadcast in four runs from 1959 to 1963, except 1962. It started as a twenty-six week examination of different forms of animal life, and added more programs in subsequent years. The series was hosted, written and narrated by Dr. Ian McTaggart-Cowan. This episode illustrates the marsh creatures in a lake in Cariboo Regional District of Central Columbia and how they share common habitat, react to the environment and obtain food. It also reveals some ingenious ways that animals have evolved to meet their needs and to escape competition. Dr. Cowan introduced some single-celled animals, water insects and marsh rat. After the CBC broadcast some of the episodes were re-broadcasted as Western Regional School Telecasts. For this episode the school broadcast date was 1964-03-04 and the identifier was CBUT-8031-1.

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Contributor

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010
• Bray, Ken
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Connochie, Tom

Subject

• Marsh ecology
• Marsh animals
• Animal behavior
• Zoology
• Adaptation (Biology)
• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Publisher

• CBC Vancouver

Language

• eng

Identifier

• CBUT-9859-9

Date created

• October 11, 1959

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 film reel (00:29:50) : black and white ; 16 mm

Alternative title

• Web of life show 01
• Western schools
• Western regional school telecast

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Cariboo Regional District

Coordinates

• 52.33313, -123.16961

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

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

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/ftrp-8q10