BCTV News Hour Access - Communes 1976

1976 · Margit Nance for BCTV

An investigative news segment for BCTV News Hour weekend series, Community Access with Margit Nance, broadcast in two 15-minute segments during the weekend news hour show. Piece documents communes in British Columbia’s Slocan Valley, west of Nelson, founded by Americans (primarily from California). Piece includes interviews with Tom Drake, Sally Grey-Drake, Eric Clough, Carol Gascon, Joel Harris - coordinator of the Vallican Whole School, Stephen Drake, Adam Drake, Peter Soukeroff and Molly Soukeroff, plus footage of the Theatre Energy Pantomime Group (funded by the Canada Council for the Arts), Vallican Whole School, and Slocan Community Library. Item produced in 1976 by Margit Nance for BCTV, Vancouver affiliate of the Global Television Network (formerly CTV) in British Columbia, Canada. Terry Cochrane, director. Eric Cable, camera. Bert Darbyshire, editor. Margit Nance, writer and producer. Roberta Meilleur, production assistant. 36 mins. 47 secs.