Live @ Lunch: Filmmaker Stanley Fox

Free noon-hour talks on the first Wednesday of the month feature curators and researchers working at the Royal BC Museum.

Archivist Dennis Duffy discusses BC filmmaker Stanley Fox, and shows two of his earliest films. 

Seventy years ago, a young Vancouverite named Stanley Fox began a lifelong appreciation of motion pictures. Fox was an 18-year-old student—and already a talented still photographer—when he began to shoot 16 mm home movies, and turned his perceptive eye to capturing moving images of his city and surroundings. Within a few years, Stan was creating short experimental films and documentaries. Two of them won honourable mention in the amateur category in the first years of the Canadian Film Awards, and are preserved at the Royal BC Museum. Join Stan and Archivist Dennis Duffy for a lunchtime screening of Suite Two: A Memo to Oscar (1947) and In the Daytime (1949–50). As a special treat, Stanley Fox will be in attendance to answer questions.