Camera West


Camera West is a Canadian documentary television series which aired on CBC Television from 1964 to 1967.

Premise

This series of mid-year documentaries was produced in Vancouver and concentrated on life in western Canada and featured varying topics.

Scheduling

The first run of this half-hour series was broadcast on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. from 1 July to 16 September 1964. In the following seasons it was seen on Sundays, 10:30 p.m. in the second season, 10:00 p.m. in the third season and finally 5:30 p.m. in its fourth season.

Episodes

;1964 season
  • "Circles of Power", a two-part series on witchcraft
  • "Ghost of Walhachin", about a British Columbia settlement
  • "The Fountain of Youth", about a health farm
  • "The Good Citizens", a two-part series about Chinese Canadians in the west
  • "Shawnigan", featuring the private Victoria-area Shawinigan Lake School for boys
  • "Strange Gray Day, This", featuring poet and artist bill bissett
  • "Through the Looking Glass", regarding LSD's clinical use
  • "Tricks or Treatment", about hypnotism
  • "Whatever Happened to the Horse?"
;1965 season
  • "Crystal Prize", about an international ski competition at Crystal Mountain, Washington
  • "The Heart of the Thing", about Emily Carr
  • "Immigrant Impressions": recent immigrants to Vancouver give their impressions of the city and various aspects of Canadian mores and culture
  • "The Last Parade", about Portuguese immigrants in the Okanagan Valley
  • "A Matter of Choice" ; on British Columbia's Irish Fusiliers
  • "Paul Kane"
  • "Shawnigan"
  • "The Islanders", about the Gulf Islands
;1966 season
  • "Carole", about Vancouver School of Art student Carole Thompson
  • features on Vancouver's West End
  • a documentary on how children have less creative initiative as they grow older
  • an episode about the Lusitania's sinking, based on Len Chapple's radio documentary