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Fish and Shellfish (3)

  • Fish Spoilage Control
    Fish Spoilage Control
    1956 8 min
    This animated short film illustrates the proper methods for handling fish to avoid contamination and ensure freshness, from boat to dinner table. A battalion of little red demons act out the spoilage process by showing how careless handling causes bacteria to grow and multiply, but proper storage and sanitary handling can preserve them.
  • Salmon
    Salmon
    Alanis Obomsawin 1975 3 min
    Expert fishers for their entire lives, Líl̓wat Elders Cora and Daniel Wells share their deep knowledge of salmon fishing, cleaning and smoking.

    This short is part of the L’il’wata series. In the early 1970s, at the outset of her documentary career, Alanis Obomsawin visited the Líl̓wat Nation, an Interior Salish First Nation in British Columbia, and created a series of shorts that provide personal narratives about Líl̓wat culture, histories and knowledge.
  • Salmon - Tsúqwaoz'  (Salish Version)
    Salmon - Tsúqwaoz' (Salish Version)
    Alanis Obomsawin 1975 3 min
    Expert fishers for their entire lives, Líl̓wat Elders Cora and Daniel Wells share their deep knowledge of salmon fishing, cleaning and smoking.

    This short is part of the L’il’wata series. In the early 1970s, at the outset of her documentary career, Alanis Obomsawin visited the Líl̓wat Nation, an Interior Salish First Nation in British Columbia, and created a series of shorts that provide personal narratives about Líl̓wat culture, histories and knowledge.