British Columbia Patriotic and Educational Picture Service

Kean received a staff salary through the game board, and the picture service paid him by the foot for film he shot, processed and printed.

Individual films depicted the province’s industries and natural resources, as well as its scenic and recreational attractions, cities, towns, and transportation routes.

[2] Considerable criticism and ridicule was directed at the notion of showing BC to its own residents—although in this regard, PEPS foreshadowed (by twenty years) a key mandate of the National Film Board of Canada.

Baker had Kean re-cut the film to highlight Bowser's connection to the oyster industry, and insert new inter-titles that repeatedly referred to the company's employees as “Hindus” rather than as "workers."

Given the xenophobic anti-Asian sentiment prevalent in the province at that time, being named as a prominent employer of South Asians would have made Bowser a pariah to white voters, and apparently the government was counting on that.

A year later, political conflict and accusations of malfeasance led to a Royal Commission of Inquiry into A. R. Baker's activities at both the game board and PEPS.

Its reputation damaged by the scandal, the picture service continued to function in a reduced capacity under the direction of BC Film Censor Walter Hepburn.

In a poorly-researched 1921 article in MacLean’s Magazine, writer Edith M. Cuppage described Watkis as the “directress” of the picture service and implied that she was responsible for the production of its films.