Learning on ScreenSaving the Salmon
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Saving the Salmon. DESCRIPTION: A hundred thousand salmon enter the Big Qualicum river on Vancouver Island every year. Of three hundred and fifty million eggs, only ten per cent mature. One reason is the flow of water, so they’ve built a barrage system to control the flow and divert polluted streams from the spawning grounds. So far they’ve spent one and a quarter million dollars. The temperature of a salmon river is also vital to survival, so by drawing water from a lake - at varying levels and temperatures, it’s possible to cool-off the river. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV inlet, salmon spawning in shallow water (2 shots). TS men on dam weir. MS men clearing timber. LS river. MS man walks along dam. Man winds up gate of dam (2 shots). MCU fish through gate. CU man. CU fish through gate. CU man presses. CU fish through gate, man nets salmon - checks mark and throws it back into water (3 shots). LS river flowing. GV lake, water pouring through tunnel (3 shots). TS man operating valves, water pouring through tunnel (3 shots). GV river, salmon spawning (3 shots).
- Keywords
- Animals; Engineering
- Locations
- Canada; Vancouver Island; Big Qualicum River
- Footage sources
- National Film Board of Canada
- Card file number
- 85786
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 161
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