Interior Moving Image Gallery

In the early 1920s, Harlan I. Smith, an anthropologist, traveled through out the province to witness, and attempt to capture on film, the different First Nations peoples and their lifestyles. The footage he took focused upon various activities such as food gathering, food preparation, weaving and aboriginal dance.

Illustrated here are several digital moving image clips taken from Harlan I. Smith's film collection. Smith filmed these while traveling through the interior of British Columbia during the period of 1923 and 1929.

The moving image clips illustrated here are one example of moving image records from the BC Archives Moving Image Collection, and is an example of film technology from the 1920s.