This poster advertises the work being done for the Digital Forestry Film Fest with the hopes of preserving these films. These posters have been posted around Kamloops B.C. and the interior in public spaces.
Films created during the 1970s through the 1990s by various forestry companies served as training or informational resources for employees. By unearthing and archiving these films, we can begin to examine how they contributed to public understanding of forestry and it’s social, economic, and environmental implications on our province.
This poster hopes to link potential past and future viewers of these films while creating a sense of scale and grounding between the physical B.C. locations these films take place in and the online sources of these films.
“Down to the Woods Today” was an art instillation presented by Weyerhaeuser at Aberdeen Mall in Kamloops, B.C. around 1990. It featured a video screening station and several rooms that recreated a second growth forest, the mountains and rivers of the Kamloops landscape, and even the chutes and chimneys of the Kamloops Pulp Mill. A video record of this event is kept at a library in North Carolina.
Do you remember this exhibit? Have you seen these videos or others like them? Help us preserve the visual history of forestry in B.C. by participating in the Seeing the Trees project at TRU. Submit your contact details to help contribute to our ongoing research.
