Movie: Housekeeping - negatives
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- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 224 b&w & colour negatives on 64 strips of film. Includes members of the crew filming inside a flooded house interior, portraits of cast members and the director, exterior shots of houses, group portraits of the cast and crew, and people skating on Spray Lakes.
- Date Range
- 1986-1987
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / M / x / l / NA - 01 to NA - 64
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Negative
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file, M : Alphabetical order
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Sub-Series
- x : Movies, l : Housekeeping
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / M / x / l / NA - 01 to NA - 64
- Date Range
- 1986-1987
- Physical Description
- 224 photographs : b&w and col. negatives ; 35 mm
- History / Biographical
- "Housekeeping," 1987, directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Christine Lahti, Sara Walker, and Andrea Burchill. Set in the Pacific Northwest. After their mother commits suicide, two sisters go to live with their eccentric aunt in a remote mountain town Location filming primarily in Nelson, BC, but skating scenes were filmed on Spray Lakes Reservoir in Kananaskis. Trivia: Director Bill Forsyth original wanted to find a large frozen lake in the Yukon to film the skating scene that closes the movie. Bruno Engler, as the on-scene photographer in Nelson, suggested the much more accessible Spray Lakes near Canmore. The movie, which is set in the 1950s, was originally going to be filmed in the same location as the book its based on, Sandpoint Idaho. However, the town of Sandpoint had changed too much by 1986 to suit the film's needs and instead the town of Nelson, British Columbia was chosen.
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 224 b&w & colour negatives on 64 strips of film. Includes members of the crew filming inside a flooded house interior, portraits of cast members and the director, exterior shots of houses, group portraits of the cast and crew, and people skating on Spray Lakes.
- Subject Access
- Automobiles
- Buildings
- Films and film making
- Mountains
- Movie Stars
- Portrait
- Skating
- Spray Lakes
- Winter
- Geographic Access
- Nelson
- British Columbia
- Canmore
- Kananaskis Country
- Alberta
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- File may require rehousing
- Related Material
- V190 / VI / M / x / l / PA - 01 to PA - 88
- Creator
- Engler, Bruno
- Biographical Source Notes
- Hollywood in the Canadian Rockies, by Brian Patton, e-book.
- Title Source
- Original title kept
- Processing Status
- Processed
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