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Salmon Run

Accession number: 
1945.0026
Production Years: 
1945

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Length (feet): 
734 (16mm)
Length (minutes): 
20
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Library and Archives Canada: 16mm.
"Salmon Run deals primarily with the protection of the sockeye salmon fisheries in the Fraser River of British Columbia. Because of its firm, red meat and rich, amber-coloured oil, the sockeye is the most valuable of the salmon. The International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, made up of Canadian and United States scientists and research workers, was confronted with such problems as clearing Hell's Gate in the Fraser River so that the salmon would not be lost in their fight to reach spawning grounds upstream."

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"Canadian Letter," Film News (September-October 1947): 26.
"As regards the individual producer in Canada: The Board itself frequently commissions private producers to make films for the government programme. [...] Salmon Run, an NFB release about the salmon industry in British Columbia, was made by Shelley Films, then in Vancouver, B.C., now in Toronto [...]"

National Film Board of Canada Online Database
"Salmon Run deals primarily with the protection of the sockeye salmon fisheries in the Fraser River of British Columbia. Because of its firm, red meat and rich, amber-colored oil, the sockeye is the most valuable of the salmon. The International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, made up of Canadian and United States scientists and research workers, was confronted with such problems as clearing Hell's Gate in the Fraser River so that the salmon would not be lost in their fight to reach spawning grounds upstream."

Canadian Tourist Association, Conservation Films (1954): 12.
"The strange life cycle of the sockeye salmon, which every year returns to the headwaters of the Fraser River where they came to life. Engineers and scientists help the fish past rapids and shallows. Even the color changes of the salmon as it nears the end of its life is recorded by the camera."