Camera West

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

Camera West
Genre	documentary
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	CBC Television
Original release	1 July 1964 – 24 September 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

References

1. Corcelli, John (May 2005). "Camera West". Canadian Communications Foundation. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
2. "The Image Before Us: A History of Film in British Columbia - Take 2 / Warclouds in the Pacific". The Cinematheque (Vancouver). Retrieved 18 January 2016.

External links

• Allan, Blaine (1996). "Camera West". Queen's University. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 7 May 2010.