Metro Media Video Library
This collection of videotapes is believed to be a portion of the Metro Media Video Library. We are continuing to identify their origins. Many have no credits. When identitified as a Metro Media production we indicate that in the description. If you have information about these tapes we’d appreciate you contacting us: library@vivomediaarts.com
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A Metro Media Production
This tape explains the purpose and activities of the Metro Media Society, incorporated 1971. Metro Media’s citizen use of media, particularly cablevision, to create social change is emphasized in this documentary made two years after Metro Media began.
Metro Media’s purpose was “training citizens in the use of of small format television equipment, cable casting community programs over Channel 10 in Vancouver, and, bringing awareness of communications policies to the community level.” [quote from “A History of Vancouver Community Television Association”]
Title: Metro Media Explanation Tape
Creator: Metro Media Society
Contributor:
Subject: Communications – Media Literacy – Video Activism
Date Created: 1973
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: 1 !/2 open reel video tape
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M140
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
T.A.C.U.Y. demonstration the Provincial Court House [Georgia Street] on September 26, 1970. Speakers include Harry Rank, then Vancouver City Alderman. Includes march to Minister Gaglardi’s welfare office to the Department of manpower; speeches on the Court House steps, and interviews with spectators. Recorded with a Sony VTR 3600.
Title: The Action Committee for Unemployed Youth Demonstration
Creator: Vancouver Inner-City Service Project
Subject: Employment – Youth – Protest – Media
Date Created: 1970
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: 1 1/2 open reel video tape
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M115
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
A Metro Media Production. Part of the Under the Rug series.
A representative of Canada Manpower is asked questions by L.I.P. participants about their concerns about the federal governments Local Initiatives Program. L.I.P. was part of a short-term job creation program intended to alleviate youth unemployment and tamp down youth unrest. The government described L.I.P. as supporting projects that would promote “meaningful work” and “community betterment.”
Title: Local Initiatives Program
Creator: Metro Media Society
Contributors: [unidentified]
Subject: Federal Government -Job Creation Policy – Poverty – Youth
Date Created: c.1971
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: 1 1/2 open reel video tape
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M125
Series: Under the Rug
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
January 24, 1974 Contemporary Society and the Gay Struggle symposium. Sponsored by The Gay people of U.B.C. and the Gay Alliance Towards Equality (GATE). Panelists: Moderator, [unidentified]; Pat Smith, activist in the Vancouver women’s liberation movement; Maurice Flood, Chairman, GATE; Gene Errington, Ombudswoman for Vancouver Status of Women Council;; Jearld Moldenhauer, founder of Body Politic magazine;Philip Hewitt, Minister, Vancouver United Church.
The aim of the symposium was to destroy societal myths about the Gay community and replace them with “knowledge and understanding, and to discuss strategies for the gay liberation movement. Questions are asked by the audience.
Title: Gay Alliance [Symposium]
Creator: The Gay People of U.B.C.; Gay Alliance Towards Equality
Contributors:
Moderator: [unidentified]
Panelists: Smith, Pat; Flood, Maurice; Errington, Gene; Moldenhauer, Jearld
Subject: LGBTQ – Gay Liberation – Education
Date Created: 1974-01-24
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentation
Extent: 1 1/2 open reel video tape
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M109 [0262]
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Metro Media Production. Under the Rug series.
On location in today’s Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, discussing the problems faced by the residents of skid row. Housing is the main issue, discussed by residents, social planner Peter Davis, Alderman Mike Harcourt , health department officials, fire chiefs, and community legal aid workers.
Title: Skid Road
Alternative title: Skid Row
Creator: Metro Media Society
Contributor:
Producer – Terry Ketler
Subject: Poverty – Unemployment – Housing – Alcoholism
Date Created: 1973
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: 1 1/2 open reel video tape
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M025
Series: Under the Rug
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
(1) Bill Bargeman and others discuss the escalation in protester control under Vancouver Mayor Tom Campbell. Early Spring 1970 ; (2) About programs for students at Lord Strathcona School; (3) Activist “Tiny” speaks to the need for social workers to advocate for less police intervention in protests and to fight against Mayor Campbell’s militarization of the police.
Title: [Bill Bargeman on Billy Clubs | Strathcona | Tiny’s Intervention]
Case title: Bill Clubs/Strathcona/Intervention at Social Workers Meeting
Creator: Metro Media Society [attributed]
Contributor: Bargeman, Bill; “Tiny”
Subject: Police Violence – Protest – Education
Date Created: c. 1970
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: 1 1/2″ open reel video tape
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M147
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Metro Media Production.
Vancouver Community Television Association representatives Andrew Clements, Gloria Keiler, Penny Joy, and Jim Lipkovits speak for the VCTA at a CRTC hearing held at Sheraton-Landmark May 20-23, 1980. All VCTA reps here were also Metro Media producers.
VCTA research and reports about the 1970s community cable movement are available to view at the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive.
Title: [VCTA at CRTC Hearing May 1980]
Case title: CRTC: A. Clements, D. Seeley, J. Lipkovitz
Creator: Metro Media Society
Contributors:
VCTA Panelists- Clements, Andrew; Joy, Penny; Keiler, Gloria; Lipkovits, Jim
Subject: Communications – Media Democracy
Date Created: 1980-05
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: 1 ½” open reel video tape
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M245
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Labelled “Stan Persky” this recording documents a panel of writers, poets and journalists who engage in discussion with the audience on the subject of publication and writing as work. Stan Persky is featured in a large segment of the first half of the video. The second half is poet Robert Whitfield reading his poems on stage at the same event.
Title: Stan Persky
Creator: [Unknown]
Contributors: Persky, Stan; Whitfield, Robert; [unidentified panelists]
Subject: Literature
Date Created: c.1971-1974
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentation
Extent: 1 ½” open reel video tape
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M095
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Metro Media Production
Documentation without commentary of Fairview Slopes, Vancouver, showing the active housing and offices construction in the area during a period of intense redevelopment in the 1970’s; visit to the “Far-out” [Fairview] Information Centre [L.I.P. funded] and volunteers Barbara Sankey [recreation and conservation researcher] and Laurie Howitzer. Last 5 minutes features the producer’s children at a boat dock, rowing a skiff, doing their lessons.
This footage may have been used in the Metro Media production on Fairview Slopes [M167 – undigitized]
Title: Mount Pleasant Fairview Visuals
Creator: [Metro Media Society]
Contributor:
Cameraperson – [unidentified]
Subjects – Sankey, Barbara; Howitzer, Laurie
Subject: Housing – Development
Date Created: c.1974-1976
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentation
Extent: 1 ½” open reel video tape
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M039
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Metro Media Production
Documentation of Strathcona Community Day Activities in August 1972 at the new MacLean Park. Includes overview of Vancouver’s Chinatown, introduction to Strathcona, music, a martial arts demonstration by the Raymond Leong Kung Fu Club (located upstairs in building on northeast corner of Hastings and Heatley), interview with Patricia Young, U.B.C. library student and coordinator of the Chinese Library (632 Hawks Avenue, funded by an Opportunities for Youth grant).
Title: Strathcona Community Days Activities
Creator: Metro Media Society
Contributor: Raymond Leung Kung Fu Club
Subject: Chinatown – Strathcona – Chinese-Canadian Community – Marital Arts – Music – Library
Date Created: 1972-08
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: 1 ½” open reel video tape
Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M223
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
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A video vérité documentary shot at North Vancouver’s pop radio station, CKLG 73, during a weekly Flashback Weekend, 1972. Includes DJs Roy Hennessy, Gary Russell and Jim Hault.
Title: CKLG 73 Flashback Weekend
Creator: Metro Media Society
Contributor: Roy Hennessy, Gary Russell, Jim Hault
Subject: Radio – Vancouver History
Date Created: 1972
Location: Recorded North Vancouver, Canada. Produced Vancouver, Canada.
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: 1 ½” open reel video tape
Original Format: ½” open reel video tape
Access Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M068
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: Recorded at the York Street Commune, 2504 York Street in Vancouver. Commune members talk about the formation of the York Street Commune from its beginning as a loose collection of students in 1966 to the evolution to a commune by the 1970s. Discussion centres around the nature of communes and their work as writers and publishers. Includes interviews with Lanny Beckman, Stan Persky, Gladys Hindman, and Brian DeBeck. Includes history and video documentation of their work with the Georgia Straight, York Street Press, Vancouver Community Press, and other publishing projects that led to New Star Books.
Title: York Street Commune
Creator: Matthew Speier
Producer: Metro Media Society
Contributor:
Interviewees: Lanny Beckman, Stan Persky, Gladys Hindman, Brian DeBeck
Subject: Communes – Literature
Date Created: c.1971
Location: 2504 York Street, Vancouver, Canada.
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: 1 ½” open reel video tape
Original Format: 1/2″ open reel video tape
Access Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M131
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: The question of whether a child’s schoolwork is effected by poverty is examined. In Vancouver, a low-income family is contrasted with a middle-income family. [Note: description from Video Out catalogue referring to an edited tape, Two Families, 30 minute length deposited in the Video Inn Library. Accession #0414.]
Title: Two Families Part 1 and Part 2
Creator: Bill Bargeman, Starla Anderson
Producer: Metro Media Society
Contributor:
Interviewee: Elizabeth
Interviewer: Starla Anderson
Videographer: Bill Bargeman
Subject: Strathcona – Poverty – Education
Date Created: 1975
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: (2) ½” open reel video tape
Original Format: ½” open reel video tape
Access Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M86/M87
Technical Note: This digital file is compilation of Metro Media fonds video tapes M86 Two Families Part 1 and M87 Two Families Part 2 made post-digitization.
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: This documentary shows Metro Media in its third year of operation. Tape excerpts range from social issues to performing arts to ethnic programs.
Title: Metro Media Sampler 1974
Producer: Metro Media Society
Subject: Media Democracy – Community
Date Created: 1974
Duration: 40:14
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: ½” open reel video tape
Original Format: ½” open reel video tape
Access Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: 0263
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: A compilation for the 1973 Matrix Video Conference & First International Video Festival [Vancouver, Canada 1973] of a variety of early video tape excerpts on social issues and conceptual imagery.
Title: Metro Media Sampler [1972]
Producer: Metro Media Society
Subject: Media Democracy – Community
Date Created: 1972
Duration: 50:18
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: ½” open reel video tape
Original Format: ½” open reel video tape
Access Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: MM
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: Interview and slide show with west coast Cetologist, Dr. Paul Spong, on the plight of whales.
Related title:
SVES Video Archive. Accession No.0302.
Pacific Reach: Paul Spong, Tom Shandel, 1974.
Contact library@vivomediaarts.com to view.
Title: Paul Spong on Whales
Series: Glorious Peoples Television Half-Hour
Producer: Metro Media Society
Subject: Environment – Whales
Date Created: NK
Duration: 30:00
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: ½” open reel video tape
Original Format: ½” open reel video tape
Access Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M227
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: Dr. Paul Spong explains the need for a moratorium on commercial whale hunting at an outdoor meeting in Stanley Park.
Title: Whales: Dr. Paul Spong
Producer: Metro Media Society; Sheila Smyth.
Subject: Environment – Whales
Date Created: 1974
Duration: 13:00
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: ½” open reel video tape
Original Format: ½” open reel video tape
Access Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: 0260 [SVES Video Library Accession No.]
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds and the SVES Video Library
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: On the street interviews with the residents in the West End of Vancouver on residential development and transportation.
Title: The West End: A Collage of Opinions
Producer: Metro Media Society; Roberta Kiligirou, Abe Herring, Jim LeMaistre
Subject: Urban Development, Community Video Activism
Date Created: c.1971
Duration: 01:02:17
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: ½” open reel video tape
Original Format: ½” open reel video tape
Access Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: M127
Is Part Of: Metro Media Society fonds and the SVES Video Library
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.
Description: This tape deals with harbour fill, dump trucks, and interviews with various political people for and against fill the harbour in Vancouver, B.C. In 1972 this was a big issue in the city.
Title: Portfill
Producer: Metro Media Society
Subject: Environment, Urban Development
Date Created: 1972
Duration: 14:00
Type: Moving Image
Genre: Documentary
Extent: ½” open reel video tape
Original Format: ½” open reel video tape
Access Format: video/mp4
Language: English
Identifier: 0181a
Is Part Of: SVES fonds; Metro Media Society fonds
Source: Original Format: The VIVO Media Arts Centre. Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives. Metro Media Society fonds.
Rights: Media provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these videos must be obtained from the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archives.