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REEL 79
VANCOUVER HARBOUR / AUCTION March 22, 1973
1. VANCOUVER FIREBOAT 2'50"
2. " " , starting engine 1'50"
3. VANCOUVER FIREBOAT, attempting to raise anchor 5'55"
4. FIREBOAT WHEELHOUSE 3'30"
5. RADIO 0'55"
6. EATON'S AUCTION 0'40"
7. " " 10'35"
REEL 79 COMMENTARY
1. Opens with conversation between recordist and fireman, deciding what sounds to record. Huge amounts of low frequency sound and vibration.
3. Periodic exclamations, comments from firemen as they try to unjam the anchor motor, unsuccessfully. Motor sounds continuous in background, seagulls.
5'00" microphones change position, and back again.
4. Lively exchange of radio voices, ticking of echo sounds in background throughout.
1'55" generator shuts down.
2'25" change in speaker's voice from inside to outside.
2'30" ship's bell, distorted.
5. Radio playing in security station of National Harbour's Board parking lot.
6. Heavy low frequency rumble. A strange opening -- sounds like distant singing in a very large cathedral, as recordists approach auction from a distance.
7. As the microphones move closer through an enormous wall of low frequency sound, it is clearly not a church, but the auction! Heavy distortions in low end at beginning.
0'30" entering, auctioneer audible, in fairly reverberant space.
1'20" recordists move in closer.
1'40" crowd moves to new location.
2'00" nice "singing" of auctioneer, with distortion on his sound system.
2'30" crowd moves to new location.
2'45" steps upstairs into more muted space.
3'20" "heading down one floor".
3'50" "heading downstairs".
4'20" people walking downstairs.
4'55" auctioneer, announcements.
5'50" auctioneer, calling people to new location.
6'00" auctioneer, starts his spiel, nice and close-up.
6'40" crowd moves to new location, followed by spiel.
7'25" moving on downstairs, voices, footsteps.
8'00" stairway: wooden, muted footstep sound.
8'20" into reverberant space.
9'00" starts spiel in distance, recordist moves in closer. Great spiel, not too short and very musical and rhythmical.
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