Fonds consists of tourist films taken at Banff and in Yoho National Park. Consist mainly of pans of mountains based on the roadside or while driving. First film includes Bow Falls, Bow Valley, Banff Springs Hotel, Moraine Lake, Castle Mountain and Takakkaw Falls, and includes brief shots of a man…
2 motion pictures : film reels; 16 mm, b&w, silent
History / Biographical
Edith Salisbury Brooks is thought to have been a tourist from the United States, who visited Banff in the 1920s.
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of tourist films taken at Banff and in Yoho National Park. Consist mainly of pans of mountains based on the roadside or while driving. First film includes Bow Falls, Bow Valley, Banff Springs Hotel, Moraine Lake, Castle Mountain and Takakkaw Falls, and includes brief shots of a man with a Graflex camera, cars on the Bow River Bridge and people feeding a bear; length ca.400 feet. Second film pertains to the Banff Springs Hotel, Lake Minnewanka, Bow Falls and Bow Valley, Lake Louise and an Indigenous family; length ca.300 feet.