This Was the Time

This Was the Time

1970 en 16 minutes

Rating: 0

Plot

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.

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Cast

Robert Davidson

Robert Davidson

Self (uncredited)

Reg Davidson

Reg Davidson

Self (uncredited)

Robert Davidson Sr.

Robert Davidson Sr.

Self (uncredited)

Florence Davidson

Florence Davidson

Self (uncredited)

James Carney

James Carney

Narrator

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