Seriously Moving Images

“For God’s sake, take a look at what is on the SCREEN!”

— O. C. Burritt to O. C. Wilson at the first screening of the Vancouver Film Society, 30 September 1936

“City Lights, Vancouver B.C.” [detail of postcard]. The Gowen, Sutton Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B.C. [n. d.]

Articles/Essays from here and there

Sound Heritage (journal and series). Wikipedia, 2026.

The Famous Cowboy Artist: A. D. Kean in Vancouver, 1913-1916. The British Columbia Review, 15 October 2025.

Man with a Movie Camera: Stanley Fox. The British Columbia Review, 14 August 2025.

Dorothy Burritt. Wikipedia, 2025.

And (film). Wikipedia, 2025.

Knowing the Country: The unfilmed Ethel Wilson. The British Columbia Review, 25 March 2024.

Evangelists: The Other Cinema of Dorothy and Oscar Burritt. Amateur Cinema, 2019.

Spotlight: Amateur Film Collections at the BC Archives, Royal BC Museum. Amateur Cinema, 2017.

Looking at Nature with Dr. G. Clifford Carl. Amateur Cinema, 2017.

“A Movie Camera is a Time Machine.“ Curious, no. 3, Summer 2014. Since migrated to this page.

“A Fan of the Chinese Opera.” Curious, no. 1, Winter 2014. Since migrated to this page.

Highways and Hyperbole: British Columbia Government Travelogues, 1940-1970. “Liner notes” essay from the DVD Evergreen Playland: A Road Trip through British Columbia. Royal BC Museum, 2008.

Dennis J. Duffy and David Mattison. A. D. Kean: Canada’s Cowboy Movie-Maker. The Beaver, 69:1 (February-March, 1989), pp. 28-41.

Motion Picture Production in British Columbia, 1941-1965. Introductory essay from Camera West: British Columbia on Film, 1941-1965. Provincial Archives of British Columbia, 1986.

Myrna Cobb and Dennis Duffy. “A Picture of Prosperity”: The British Columbia Interior in Promotional Photography, 1890 – 1914. The Past in Focus: Photography & British Columbia, 1858-1914, ed. Joan M. Schwartz. BC Studies no. 52 (Winter 1981-82), pp. 142-56.