Karl Spreitz Film Inventory

"Offerings in White & Gold" (1981) - Depicts Bali, Indonesia, and looks at its cultural lifestyle. Features a week-long, 24-hour a day Purification of the King’s Soul Ceremony. This festival involves traditional dancers and musicians, a toothfiling ceremony, and the final freeing of the soul of the last king of the Island, Djecorda Gede Agung Sukewati. A Karl Spreitz/Vicky Husband Production. Director - Karl Spreitz, Script - Colin Browne.

BOX 02: Bali, Indonesia

"Martha" - Shows a Canadian dancer studying Indonesian dance in Bali.

BOX 03: Native Heritage

Karl and his friend Colin Browne. The two met in the early 1970s and developed a close friendship.Together they worked on many films, including: Bottles; The Point Ellice Bridge Disaster; Crossroads - The Port of Vancouver, April 1891; West Coast Logging, Cowichan Valley, 1939; Coming About; Kekule; The Royal Hudson; Strathyre; A Portrait of Myfanwy; Offerings in White and Gold; Ninstints; and White Lake.

BOX 04: Miscellaneous

"McCauley Point Outfall" - 1968-1970, The building of the McCauley Point Fallout from assembly to pipes; welding the two mile long floating pipe supported by tug boats; the final lowering and the official opening."

"Royal Hudson" - (1977) Train to Los Angeles, train to San Francisco, train to Squamish. Tourism film produced by the BC Department of Travel Industry. Director - Karl Spreitz, Script - Colin Browne.

"A Place For All People" - From the pages of the Beautiful British Columbia Magazine, (30 minutes). Features Stanley Park, Vancouver Boy’s Choir, Mission, Cloverdale Medieval Festival, Snake Fences in the Caribou.

"UN in the Classroom" - (1950), 15 minutes long.

"Milfoil in the Okanagan" - (1970) The growth of milfoil in the Okanagan Lakes; underwater spreading of seeds and the animation which shows the government’s weed cutter. (The Minister at the time was upset by the scientists’ explanation pointing out the uselessness of the Government’s operation).

"Actors on Board BC Ferries" - Entertainment on the early BC Ferry runs. Camera original is 10 minutes.

"Railroad Going North (BC)" - Filmed from the air, depicts the fatal 600 miles of railroad going north to nowhere. WAC Bennett "make work" program.

"Summer Symphony" - (1972) Victoria Summer Symphony Festival, Lazlo Gati conductor. Performed in front of the newly opened Provincial Museum.

"News Parade" - Newsreel from 1933 - 10 minutes.

"Fishing in the Cowichan Bay" - 30 minutes.

"Coho on the Fly" - (1972) Early morning sunrise in the bay with hundreds of coho flopping amongst fishing boats. Plenty of fish being caught with the final conclusion a fishing derby with 150 entries all catching the limit. The winning fish weighed in at 40 lbs. A valuable document to show the incredible reduction of fish in the Cowichan Bay.

BOX 5: Artists
see boxes 8-10 for more

BOX 06: Historic

BOX 07: Commercials

Black and white, and colour television commercials from 1968, including 1 minute and 30 second spots. A great variety from cars (including the first GWG and Volkswagen commercials) to household products, and the media’s self-promotion with previews of upcoming programs. See Box 14 for more of the same.

BOX 08: Artists - Myfanwy Pavelic 1 of 2

The introduction of the film features Kathryn Hepburn and shows Pavelic’s working process of drawing, painting, and collages. Set in the artist’s studio and home with visiting guests such as Yehudi Menuhin, Paul Horn and others.

BOX 09: Myfanwy Pavelic, 2 of 2

BOX 10: Artists - Herbert Siebner

"Herbert Siebner and John Manning" - Filmed on John Manning’s sailboat after his return from England. The film features the two men discussing Siebner’s art. This complete conversation is also available in Herbert Siebner’s first book, Colour, Line and Form printed by Manning Press, 1970.

"Don’t" - (1965) Filmed by Karl Spreitz and Herbert Siebner at beaver Lake, Victoria. Experimental film starring Siebner, Bob de Castro, Nita Forrest, Michael Morris, Pam Butcher, Sally Gregson, and others. 26 minutes.

"Herbert Siebner and Peter Forrest" - (1968) 6 minutes.

"The Wall" - Narrative by Herbert Siebner, 6 minutes.

BOX 11: NINSTINTS

"Ninstints" - (1983) This film is about Anthony Island in the Queen Charlottes. It is a World Heritage site credited for having the largest number of totems still standing in their original location. The film deals with the removal of 20 totems in 1957 by a group of anthropologists and natives, including Bill Reid. Those totems were taken to be housed in museums in British Columbia. the film depicts conservation workers trying to preserve this heritage. A Spreitz/Husband Production.

Producer: Vicky Husband; Picture, Editing: Karl Spreitz; Sound: Patrick Pothier; Script: Colin Browne.

BOX 12: Elza Mayhew

This film shows the making of The Column of the Sea, a bronze sculpture by Elza Mayhew. We see Mayhew in Victoria with a cataloguing of her previous work. She is in conversation with Ricki Ciccimarra, and Bob de Castro. Depicts the pioneering the styrofoam casting process; casting in bronze at Ferno’s Ironworks, Eugene, Oregon; the finishing, assembling, and the final installation of the work.

BOX 13: Ricki Ciccimarra

"Steelhead River" - This international prize-winning film from 1964 shows Ricki Ciccimarra as the great fly fisherman on the Cowichan River. Longest running fishing film in the National Film Board’s library. There are two versions - the first, 26 minutes, is preferred by Karl Spreitz over the second, government version, 12 minutes.

"Brown Trout" - Fishing for brown trout on the Cowichan River in 1968. Ricki Ciccimarra is fly tying while Vicky Husband helps. The film captures the black ant hatch on the river (very rarely filmed). Ciccimarra catches three 6-lb brown trout.

BOX 14: TV Commercials

- Mixed one-minute TV commercials.

BOX 15: Karl’s Shorts

BOX 16: No Title

BOX 17

+ approx. 23 empty 16mm projector reels, 1 empty 8mm projector reel, and approx. 50 lab cores