Free 16mm Screening

This screening took place on Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 3:30 pmYukon Theatre

Join us for an afternoon of family-friendly 16mm short film screenings at the Yukon Theatre! 

Get Wet - dir. William Canning, 8 min, 1966

An exciting invitation to do just what the title recommends. The film is about everyone's capacity to enjoy water sports and it leaves little doubt of the pleasure of getting wet when the sun is warm and bright, be it in a pool or on the open water of lake or river. The film has some dazzling exhibitions of diving and water skiing, but it is always the water itself that steals the show.

Carrousel - dir. Bernard Longpré, 8 min, 1967

A visual poem, vivid, lyrical, as intriguing in its colour fantasy as in the beauty of its images. This is an escape from a merry-go-round of painted horses suddenly turned to flesh and blood, making a wild plunge for freedom. But these are horses of extraordinary colour--lime, mauve, bronze and gold--as if caught in some mysterious kaleidoscope of the dawn. A triumph of technical virtuosity, these unusual effects were achieved in the printing process. Film without words.

The Cassiar Road - dir. J. Chisholm, 27 min, 1959

Shows the building of the road to Cassiar, BC, the townsite, mining of asbestos, processing at the mill and shipping by truck to Skagway, Alaska.

Mr. Frog Went A-Courting - dir. Evelyn Lambert, 5 min, 1974

In this colourful animated short by renowned filmmaker Evelyn Lambart, a handsome frog courts and wins a mouse for his bride. The story was inspired by a popular old folk song and nursery rhyme, originally published in 1548. Sung by Derek Lamb to lute accompaniment.

The Quiet Racket - dir. Gerald Potterton, 7 min, 1966

This short film tells the amusing tale of a man who feels the common urge to escape the city's noise for the weekend. Made without words, but with a wide range of other sounds, this film tracks our hero to a perfect haven of… pandemonium. The countryside, it turns out, is not as unspoiled and quiet as the poets proclaim.

The Railrodder - dir. Gerald Potterton, 24 min, 1965 

This short film from director Gerald Potterton (Heavy Metal) stars Buster Keaton in one of the last films of his long career. As "the railrodder", Keaton crosses Canada from east to west on a railway track speeder. True to Keaton's genre, the film is full of sight gags as our protagonist putt-putts his way to British Columbia. Not a word is spoken throughout, and Keaton is as spry and ingenious at fetching laughs as he was in the old days of the silent slapsticks.