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Saving the Sagas

Accession number: 
1927.0004
Production Years: 
1927

Languages:

Film Properties: 
Length (feet): 
810 (35mm)
Length (minutes): 
9
Holding Institutions: 

Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario: 16mm.

Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario: 16mm.

Library and Archives Canada: 35mm, 16mm, 3/4", VHS.
"Documentary recording the culture, the rites and dances, of the 'Wolf' Indians of the British Columbia coast. Shots of: the coast; rivers; camera on the boat; Indians listening to jazz on the radio; site of Angeda, ancient town of the Wolf tribe; Barbeau and MacMillan at Angeda with a totem pole in the background; totem monuments of the Wolf Chief; and carvings."

Bibliography: 

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario: 16mm.
"This is a documentary recording of the culture, the rites and dances fo the Wolf Indians of the British Columbia coast. Shots include—the coast, rivers, camera on the boat, Indians listening to jazz on the radio, site of Angeda, ancient town of the Wolf tribe, Barbeau and MacMillian at Angeda with a totem pole in the background, totem monuments of the Wolf chief and carvings."

Motion Picture Distributors and Exhibitors of Canada, Canadian Motion Pictures 1914-1932 (June 1932), 5.

Peter Morris, Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema, 1895-1939, p. 225, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1978.
"On the work of Marius Barbeau and Ernest MacMillan in recording the music, dances, and rites of the Wolf Indians of British Columbia."

Comments: 
Terry Ramsaye is also credited for the titles.