Vancouver – A Progressive City! Movies from the City of Vancouver Archives

“The films this year are the closest I could ever get to experiencing Vancouver in the 1930s to the 1960s without using a time machine,” says historian Michael Kluckner, who has curated and will narrate an afternoon of vintage movies from the City of Vancouver Archives.

These archival gems focus on the city’s workforce and industries, including colour film of the Lions Gate Bridge, early commercial aviation from the city airport (that is, YVR), horse-drawn milk delivery wagons in 1940, parades in the 1950s and on-location reporting from the first decade of television. An inadvertently hilarious cameo by the City’s first archivist, Major J.S. Matthews, introduces a promotional film by Imperial Oil on the march of progress in Vancouver and British Columbia.

Pianist Wayne Stewart will provide accompaniment for the movies that were originally produced without sound.

Tickets available through Vancity’s online ticketing system.