Series of film and video works produced by staff of LIDC and its predecessors. It includes animated films produced in support of university teaching and research (sub-series 1); a documentary, From C to C: Canadian Chinese Stories of Migration (sub-series 2); and digital video footage of campus events and activities (sub-series 3).

Sub-series consists of animated films created by SFU staff in the Audio Visual Centre (AVC) and Instructional Media Centre (IMC) to support university faculty, teaching and research.

Animated black and white film, silent. The print contains no credits. The leader of the film states "Al Sens – CBC promo April 1965." Sens was an independent animator before working at SFU, and founded his own studio, Al Sens Animation, in Vancouver in 1958. According to a 6 October 1966 media release, Al Sens was working for SFU's Audio Visual Centre. This film may have been produced for CBC prior to Sens' employment at SFU.

Animation of child going into space on a rocket and interacting with different people. Animation is mixed with live action footage of children doing gymnastics. Includes contributions by Elizabeth Carefoot.

Production was sponsored by the Department of Archaeology. Contributions by Editha Stephens, Elizabeth Carefoot, Chris Hildred, Doug Gyseman, Frank Campbell, Geoff Holland, Ann-Marie Logan, and Nicky Higson.

From the SFU Library catalogue record: "Lewis Carroll's famous nonsense poem adapted for the screen with a new twist." Directed by Walter Griba, with contributions by Elizabeth Carefoot, Chris Hildred, and Doug Gyseman.

Animated short, drawings by Elizabeth Carefoot. Legacy descriptive information: A-roll features women in bathing suits, flowers, a colour-changing cat, a music box and the man who opens it; B-roll includes a box, women, butterflies, a dog and other forms both geometric and free-form.

Legacy descriptive information from SFU Audio Visual Centre (adapted): "Animations showing increasing world population and human creations through recorded time. Begins with cave drawings progresses to satellites and a jet." Contributions by John Dunn.

Legacy descriptive information from creator: "Colourful animation featuring humans and aliens. In the end, after some apparent deliberation a man is burned at the stake." With contributions from Elizabeth Carefoot, Martin S. Gotfrit, and Kuris Vanel.

Sub-series consists of one documentary produced by LIDC, From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration. The sub-series was established in 2018 to accommodate the transfer of this production, with anticipation of future transfers of similar material. The sub-series, however, is now closed.

File consists of the born-digital movie "From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration" and accompanying .pdf learning package produced by SFU's Teaching and Learning Centre. Produced by Jordan Paterson; writers Jordan Patterson, Paul Yeung, and Denise Fong.

The following text is from a December 2, 2010 press release:

SFU premieres Chinese Canadian immigration film

Simon Fraser University’s Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) and the multicultural non-profit S.U.C.C.E.S.S. premiered a new one-hour documentary on the plight of early Chinese immigrants to Canada to a packed audience last month.

"From C to C: Chinese Canadian Stories of Migration" is a richly layered exploration of the fate of pioneer Chinese-Canadians through the eyes of their young descendants.

CBC, Fairchild TV and China’s Guangdong TV, which has 50 million viewers, are slated to broadcast the documentary in the New Year.

With interviews in four languages—Cantonese, Mandarin, Taishanese and English—the film captures on a personal level the impact of the infamous Head Tax and Exclusion Act imposed on Chinese immigrants to Canada from 1923 to 1947.

TLC video producer Jordan Paterson and his crew follow current-day young Chinese Canadians from their homes in British Columbia to their ancestral roots in China’s Guangdong province where most of Canada’s head-tax payers originated.

Through 20 interviews of young and old immigrant family members sharing stories, Paterson records current-day Chinese-Canadians reflecting on how injustice has shaped their family histories and fate.

“Throughout the film we explore the empty homes built by Chinese-Canadians in their ancestral villages in China as they were not permitted to own property in Canada due to government restrictions,” says Paterson.

“In these ancestral villages are the lost stories of the women left behind during exclusion who have been silent for generations. This film asks us all to come to terms with the historical injustices that still affect us today and to determine how we can prevent their recurrence.”

Among those interviewed are 102-year-old Charlie Quan, the oldest known head-tax payer in Canada, local Vancouver activist Sid Chow Tan and Vancouver police chief Jim Chu.

The film and a companion website were financed through a $200,000 grant from the Canadian government’s Community Historical Recognition Program and took a year to complete.

Sub-series consists of digital video footage of campus events taken by LIDC staff. LIDC began using digital video cameras ca. 2002. Files 1-8 represent earlier analog materials later transferred to DVCam; file 109 is 1965 footage shot by CBC and transferred in 2006. Events documented include public lectures and readings, dance and theatre performances, building dedications, award and special ceremonies, anniversaries and commemorations.