Queye TV This Was the Time
Documentary
This Was the Time
1970
0:16
★ 8
🇨🇦
When Masset, a Haida village in Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), held a potlatch, it seemed as if the past grandeur of the people had returned. This is a colourful recreation of Indigenous life that faded more than two generations ago when the great totems were toppled by the missionaries and the costly potlatch was forbidden by law. The film shows how one village lived again the old glory, with singing, dancing, feasting, and the raising of a towering totem as a lasting reminder of what once was.

Cast

Robert Davidson

Self (uncredited)

Reg Davidson

Self (uncredited)

Robert Davidson Sr.

Self (uncredited)

Florence Davidson

Self (uncredited)

James Carney

Narrator

Crew

Jacques Bensimon

Writer

Roger Lamoureux

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Les Halman

Sound Editor

Bev Davidson

Sound

Jacques Bensimon

Editor

William Brind

Executive Producer

Eugene Boyko

Director of Photography

Eugene Boyko

Producer

Barbara Wilson

Original Concept

Pierre L'Amare

Graphic Designer

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