File pertains to 194 b&w & colour negatives on 55 strips of film. Includes production photos from the shoot of "Hoax," including portraits of the director, cast, and crew, shots from scenes being filmed, and members of the cast interacting with locals.
"Vanishing Act," called "Hoax" during production, 1986, directed by David Greene and starring Elliott Gould, Mike Farrell, Margo Kidder, and Fred Gwynne.
A husband loses his wife during their honeymoon at a U.S. Rocky Mountain resort town. After going to local authorities to initiate a search, the mystery deepens when a strange woman shows up claiming to be his wife.
Location filming primarily around the Banff townsite, including the Banff Park Lodge, CIBC, various private residences on Buffalo Street, and Banff Avenue.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 194 b&w & colour negatives on 55 strips of film. Includes production photos from the shoot of "Hoax," including portraits of the director, cast, and crew, shots from scenes being filmed, and members of the cast interacting with locals.
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.
"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.
"The Last of the Dogmen," 1995, directed by Tab Murphy and starring Tom Berenger and Barbara Hershey.
A bounty hunter is hired to track fugitives who have escaped into the Montana wilderness. After the fugitives are discovered murdered, the bounty hunter and a female anthropologist embark on a journey that eventually uncovers a “lost” Indigenous tribe in the mountains.
Location filming primarily around the Canmore area, including Kananaskis Country, and around the Banff townsite, including the Magpie & Stump restaurant and the Parks Canada Administration Building. Some filming was also done at Takakkaw Falls in Yoho National Park.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 30 b&w negatives on 6 strips of film. Includes production shots of Barbara Hershey's character fleeing a man on a mountain.
File pertains to 73 b&w & colour negatives on 24 strips of film. Includes production photos from the shoot of "Mountain Maverick," consisting of portraits of cast members, action shots from filming, and shots of the sets (mostly mountain scenes).
73 photographs : b&w and col. negatives ; 18.5 x 6.2 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
"Across the Great Divide," called "Mountain Maverick" during production, 1977, directed by Stewart Raffill and starring Robert Logan, Heather Rattery, and Mark Edward Hall.
Set in the American Rockies, 1876, a pair of orphans, aided by an itinerant gambler, make their way west through the wilderness to inherit a ranch in Oregon.
Location filming primarily around the Seebe area, including Mickey Bailey's Wildlife Unlimited game farm at the base of Yamnuska, and the Mount Assiniboine area.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 73 b&w & colour negatives on 24 strips of film. Includes production photos from the shoot of "Mountain Maverick," consisting of portraits of cast members, action shots from filming, and shots of the sets (mostly mountain scenes).
File pertains to 213 b&w & colour negatives on 45 strips of film. Includes production photos from the shoot of "Natty Gann," consisting of portraits of cast members, action shots from filming, and shots of the sets (mostly mountain scenes).
213 photographs : b&w and col. negatives ; 18.5 x 6.2 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
"Natty Gann" [full title " The Journey of Natty Gann"], 1985, directed by Jeremy Kagan and starring Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, and Ray Wise.
During the Great Depression, a young tomboy runs away from her Chicago guardian to join her father, who is working in a Pacific Northwest lumber camp. Riding the rails west, she teams up with tough, young hobos and a protective wolf.
Location filming near the Crowsnest Pass and at Fort Steele Historic Park for the steam engine scenes, as well as the lower mainland region of British Columbia.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 213 b&w & colour negatives on 45 strips of film. Includes production photos from the shoot of "Natty Gann," consisting of portraits of cast members, action shots from filming, and shots of the sets (mostly mountain scenes).
File pertains to 28 b&w negatives on 13 strips of film. Includes production photos from the shoot of "Never Cry Wolf," consisting of portraits of cast and crew members, action shots from filming, wolves, horses, building, and shots of the sets (mostly mountain scenes).
28 photographs : b&w negatives ; 18.5 x 6.2 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
"Never Cry Wolf," 1983, directed by Carroll Ballard and starring Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, and Zachary Ittimangnaq.
A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
Location filming throughout Alaska and the Yukon.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 28 b&w negatives on 13 strips of film. Includes production photos from the shoot of "Never Cry Wolf," consisting of portraits of cast and crew members, action shots from filming, wolves, horses, building, and shots of the sets (mostly mountain scenes).
File pertains to 94 b&w & colour negatives on 20 strips of 35mm film depicting production photos from the filming of a Peugeot car commercial on Spray Lakes. Includes shots of the crew and director, action shots of the car driving on the lake and being dropped with a parachute from a helicopter, an…
File pertains to 94 b&w & colour negatives on 20 strips of 35mm film depicting production photos from the filming of a Peugeot car commercial on Spray Lakes. Includes shots of the crew and director, action shots of the car driving on the lake and being dropped with a parachute from a helicopter, and an explosion.
File pertains to 93 b&w & colour negatives on 38 strips of film depicting production photos from the shoot of "Ski Lift to Death." Includes shots of the crew and director during the filming of a gondola scene and scenes on a ski hill, action shots of men doing trick jumps on skis, portraits of the …
93 photographs : b&w and col. negatives ; 6.1 x 15.3 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
"Ski Lift to Death" [alternately known as "Snowblind"], 1987, directed by William Wiard and starring Deborah Raffin, Charles Frank, Howard Duff, Clu Gulager, and Suzy Chaffee.
Romance and intrigue at a Rocky Mountain ski resort ends with two derailed ski-lift gondolas hanging from a cable. An ex-gangster hangs in one of the gondolas while an assassin maneuvers to bump him off.
Location filming in Banff National Park, including Sunshine and Lake Louise ski areas, the Sulphur Mountain Gondola, Banff Springs Hotel, and various downtown locations.
Rumour has it that none of Banff’s ski areas wanted their lifts associated with a film called Ski Lift to Death, but the Sulphur Mountain Gondola was willing to use their gondola cars for the derailing stunt. Many Banff locals appear in nightclub and ski hill scenes.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 93 b&w & colour negatives on 38 strips of film depicting production photos from the shoot of "Ski Lift to Death." Includes shots of the crew and director during the filming of a gondola scene and scenes on a ski hill, action shots of men doing trick jumps on skis, portraits of the cast, and more.
File pertains to 147 b&w & colour negatives on 43 strips of film depicting the shoots of "Superman III" and a few from "Superman." Includes the chemical plant explosion scene from "Superman III," external glacier scenes also for "Superman III," Badlands-based locations for "Superman," portraits of …
147 photographs : b&w and col. negatives ; 6.1 x 15.3 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
"Superman III," 1982, directed by Richard Lester and starring Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder, Annette O'Toole, and Roberta Vaughn.
Clark Kent travels to Smallville for his high school reunion and reconnects with childhood sweetheart Lana Lang; meanwhile Lois Lane goes on vacation in the Carribean. Computer programmer Gus Gorman is hired by tycoon Ross Webster to program a machine that will wipe out the entire coffee industry of Columbia, thus giving him the monopoly. This plot is foiled by Superman so Webster orders Gorman to replicate Kryptonite but, unable to identify a missing ingredient, he uses tar, which causes Superman to have a nervous breakdown and splits his identity. Overcoming this, Superman is eventually able to stop Webster's evil machine with Gorman's help and saves the day.
Location filming mostly around High River and Calgary. Power plant scenes possibly from Milton Keynes, England.
"Superman," 1978, directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, and Gene Hackman.
An origin story for Superman: born on the dying planet Krypton, he is evacuated by his parents and lands on a prairie farm, where he grows up as Clark Kent. After the death of his father, he recieves a psychic call from his deceased biological father and travels to the Arctic to build the Fortress of Solitude, where he trains and eventually becomes the famous caped hero. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor learns of a joint US Army and US Navy missile testing site and steals two missiles with the intent to blow up the San Andreas Fault. Luthor initially succeeds in this plan thanks to the use of Kryptonite on Superman, but as a result Lois Lane is killed, causing Superman to turn back time by flying around the Earth, allowing him to save her and stop the missile.
Location filming for mountain scenes done in the Kananaskis Valley and prairie scenes around High River.
One of the first motion pictures to film scenes on the newly-constructed highway into the Kananaskis Valley (Kananaskis Country). When a local resident encountered a flatbed truck carrying a U.S. guided missile on the highway (a prop for the movie), he was convinced the U.S. had invaded Canada.
Scope & Content
File pertains to 147 b&w & colour negatives on 43 strips of film depicting the shoots of "Superman III" and a few from "Superman." Includes the chemical plant explosion scene from "Superman III," external glacier scenes also for "Superman III," Badlands-based locations for "Superman," portraits of cast and crew, shots of the scene where Superman rescues a child from a tree in "Superman," and shots of the fake US Navy missle travelling down the new Kananaskis Highway also for "Superman."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_III ; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086393/locations?ref_=tt_dt_loc ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1978_film) ; "Hollywood in the Canadian Rockies," by Brian Patton, e-book
File pertains to 25 b&w strips of film containing 60 photographs. Includes production shots from the filming of the movie "To Elvis With Love" in and around the Banff townsite area. Includes portraits of the cast and crew during filming and behind the scenes, and sets [mostly in and around the Banf…
60 photographs : b&w negatives ; 18.4 x 6.2 cm and 23.2 x 3.4 cm or smaller
History / Biographical
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Scope & Content
File pertains to 25 b&w strips of film containing 60 photographs. Includes production shots from the filming of the movie "To Elvis With Love" in and around the Banff townsite area. Includes portraits of the cast and crew during filming and behind the scenes, and sets [mostly in and around the Banff Springs Hotel and at Lake Minnewanka].