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REEL 115
HARBOUR SIGNALS July 18, 1973
[false take, 20"]
1. STANLEY PARK, a foggy day(?) 21'55"
[false take, 5"]
2. STANLEY PARK, a foggy day(?) 21'25"
REEL 115 COMMENTARY
General Remarks: Both these sequences give a great impression of Vancouver Harbour ambience, with foghorns, traffic and industrial ambience, wave wash and the air is thick with seaplanes.
1. Opens with Calamity Point horn (in North Vancouver) blowing at regular intervals, bridge traffic and industrial ambience in the background. Water slurping against seawall.
5'30" jogger passes by, faintly, in background.
7'40" more joggers.
*7'45" 2-engine plane drones, Wagnerian sonorities overhead. Water sound closer and busier.
*15'30" Prospect Point horn in distance.
*18'40" loud boat horn.
2. Opens with Burnaby Shoals fog bell.
5'00" VROOOOM! A low-flying seaplane. Terrific noise.
6'25" another seaplane, higher up and not so voluminous.
10'30" distant twin engined plane droning back toward the mountains.
*12'15" seaplane close above.
12'45" and another, slowly with Doppler shift.
13'15" boat horn.
*14'15" Brockton Point horn begins, with echo.
14'30" another seaplane.
15'15" second and last horn repeat of Brockton Point horn.
16'15" distant train whistle at same pitch and time as Brockton Point horn (had it continued). water birds audible slightly.
*18'30" out of tune seaplane gears up for takeoff (note pre-echo from somewhere).
21'00" distant plane.
21'05" boat cruising by.
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