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Autobiography with Stursberg and Cocking
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- Source of title proper: Title based on contents of the subseries.
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1972 - 1986 (Creation)
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27 cm of textual records
20 sound recordings
1 moving image document
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Subseries consists of materials used for the writing of Gordon Shrum: An Autobiography with Peter Stursberg, edited by Clive Cocking. This book was conceived by Darrel Zarn of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies at SFU. He approached Peter Stursberg, an experienced journalist, who conducted a series of oral history interviews with Shrum in 1983. In order to fund the interviews, they were conducted under the oral history program of the Public Archives (now the National Archives) of Canada and the Parliamentary Library. Stursberg also made a 21/2 hour video interview of Shrum at the Instructional Media Centre at SFU. In addition, he interviewed nine of Shrum's friends and Shrum's son to provide material for the books's introduction. Because Stursberg was occupied with other projects, Clive Cocking a Vancouver writer and editor was hired to complete the project. Cocking conducted a series of supplementary interviews in 1985 to clarify statistics and other facts from the oral history interviews. Unfortunately, Shrum passed away suddenly before the manuscript was completed. The finished book appeared in 1986 through the support of SFU and the University of British Columbia.
The subseries contains transcripts, background materials, notes, drafts, U-matic videos, audio reels, and audio cassettes.
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Access to the original moving images and sound recordings is restricted due to the fragility of the physical storage media. Consult the reference archivist for information about access.
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Physical description: sub-series includes 35 audio cassettes, 10 audio reels, and 6 3/4" videocassettes (Umatic tape).
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- Stursberg, Peter (Subject)
- Cocking, Clive (Subject)
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