Cooperage

Features the Sweeney Cooperage, manufacturing wooden barrels in an assembly plant on False Creek in Vancouver, as it has done since it was founded in 1895 by Leo Sweeney. Points out that the cooperage is completely a family operation, and at one time it was the largest

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Credits

production company

Rocky Mountain Films

ONF | NFB

director

Phillip Borsos

Duration

00:16:43:00

Production places

Canada

Production dates

1975

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

013536

Language

English

Subject categories

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industries - Canada

Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Manufacturing processes

Short films

Short films → Short films - Canada

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q65679578

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Canada, 1975

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