Camera West Explained

Genre:	documentary
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Channel:	CBC Television
Num Seasons:	4
Runtime:	30 minutes

Camera West is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television from 1964 to 1967.

Premise

This series of mid-year documentaries was produced in Vancouver and concentrated on life in western Canada and featured varying topics.^[1]

Scheduling

The first run of this half-hour series was broadcast on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 1 July to 16 September 1964. In the following seasons it was seen on Sundays, 10:30 p.m. in the second season (11 July to 12 September 1965), 10:00 p.m. in the third season (3 to 24 July 1966) and finally 5:30 p.m. in its fourth season (16 July to 24 September 1967).

Episodes

1964 season

• "Circles of Power" (Michael Rothery producer; Peter Haworth writer), a two-part series on witchcraft
• "Ghost of Walhachin" (Tom Connachie producer and writer), about a British Columbia settlement
• "The Fountain of Youth" (Doug Gillingham), about a health farm
• "The Good Citizens" (Doug Gillingham producer; Hilda Mortimer writer), a two-part series about Chinese Canadians in the west
• "Shawnigan" (George Robertson writer and director), featuring the private Victoria-area Shawinigan Lake School for boys
• "Strange Gray Day, This" (Maurice Embra producer), featuring poet and artist bill bissett
• "Through the Looking Glass" (Michael Rothery producer; David Gray writer), regarding LSD's clinical use
• "Tricks or Treatment" (Gordon Babineau), about hypnotism
• "Whatever Happened to the Horse?"

1965 season

• "Crystal Prize", about an international ski competition at Crystal Mountain, Washington
• "The Heart of the Thing", about Emily Carr
• "Immigrant Impressions": recent immigrants to Vancouver give their impressions of the city and various aspects of Canadian mores and culture^[2]
• "The Last Parade", about Portuguese immigrants in the Okanagan Valley
• "A Matter of Choice" (Stanley Fox producer); on British Columbia's Irish Fusiliers
• "Paul Kane"
• "Shawnigan" (rebroadcast from 1964)
• "The Islanders" (George Robertson producer), about the Gulf Islands

1966 season

• "Carole" (Gene Lawrence producer; Dave Brock writer), about Vancouver School of Art student Carole Thompson
• features on Vancouver's West End
• a documentary on how children have less creative initiative as they grow older
• an episode about the Lusitania's sinking, based on Len Chapple's radio documentary

External links

• Web site: Camera West . Blaine . Allan . . 1996 . 7 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924012734/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/CBC.html . 24 September 2015 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Camera West . John . Corcelli . May 2005 . Canadian Communications Foundation . 7 May 2010 . 10 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110610132659/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=779 . live .
2. Web site: The Image Before Us: A History of Film in British Columbia – Take 2 / Warclouds in the Pacific . The Cinematheque (Vancouver) . 2016-01-18 . 27 January 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160127074425/http://www.thecinematheque.ca/the-image-before-us-a-history-of-film-in-british-columbia-take-2/warclouds-in-the-pacific . live .