The Vancouver Film Society

The Vancouver Film Society was one of Canada's most active and significant film societies from the mid-1930s to the early 1970s. It began as the Vancouver Branch of the National Film Society of Canada (VB/NFSC), founded in the spring of 1936. (The National Film Society of Canada itself had been inaugurated just one year earlier.) The first president of the Vancouver branch was UBC professor Dr. David O. Evans. Among those instrumental in founding the branch were Garfield A. King (director of the Progressive Arts Club of Vancouver) and O. C. Wilson, who became the branch's first secretary-manager. Oscar C. Burritt and treasurer Clarence Darling also played very active roles.

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