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Exercise Musk-Ox

Item number (ISN):

100120

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

100120

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: 1976-1979

Accession:

1977-0207

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Release date:

1946

Production company:

National Film Board

Production credit:

producer/editing, Douglas Wilkinson; photography, Roger Racine; narrator, Robert Anderson; sound, Joan Edwards and Nina Finn; production, Robert Anderson and E.W. Scythes

Country of production:

cn

Sponsor:

Department of National Defence

Distributor name:

National Film Board

Description:

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A record of the Canadian army's scientific expedition through central northern Canada using snow tractor vehicles called snowmobiles. The amphibious weasel vehicle was also used for crossing rivers. The expedition takes weather observations, geo-magnetic readings, and astronomical readings; studies the aurore; corrects existing maps; and checks the mobility of over-snow vehicles. Of note are: sequences on pre-expedition training at Fort Churchill, Manitoba; scenes of Eskimo Point (including aerial shots); a Hudson's Bay Company post; a white missionary in traditional Inuit qulittaq parka; an igloo village; women in a caribou atigi parka, and kalika (or Mother Hubbard) parka; the home of RCMP Sergeant Hamilton and his family; Caribou herds; and Indians in southern manufactured clothing; the crafting of an ice anchor for an RCAF Norseman skiplane by an Inuit; an igloo interior and the Inuit family of Old Fork, his wife, who demonstrates her sewing, and his grandson, Ikat; shots of Seargent Hamilton and family; shots of a Hadrian glider which delivers supplies to the expedition; and shots of tractor vehicles becoming bogged down on the Alaskan highway at Grande Prairie, Alberta, a circumstance which forced the termination of the expedition. Other locations include: Fort Churchill, Manitoba and the ruins of Fort Prince of Wales there, including aerial views; Baker Lake, Northwest Territories, where a landing strip is cleared for a C-47 transport aircraft; Inuit settlements at Cambridge Bay and Perry River; and Coppermine, Port Radium, Fort Norman, and Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories. <58mn>

Subjects:

ARCTIC REGIONS~CLOTHING & DRESS~DWELLINGS~FORT CHURCHILL ~IGLOOS~INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA~INUIT~MILITARY TRANSPORTATION~RESEARCH~SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Date of production inferred by cataloguer from date of release.~2. For more information see "The NFB Film Guide From 1939 to 1989", page 155.~3. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.~4. See also IDC 159442 for 16mm picture printing negative.~5. Patrick Baird, commander of the Exercise Musk-Ox land force, provides instructions to the force in voice over.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

86909

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7708-0011
7708-0012

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.6%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

86910

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

13-1182

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

58:36

Made from:

7708-0011
7708-0012

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

949733

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

7708-0011-DPX
7708-0012-DPX

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

57:00

Made from:

7708-0011
7708-0012

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

949734

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

7708-0011.WAV
7708-0012.WAV

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

57:00

Made from:

7780-0011
7780-0012

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

949735

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

100120.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

57:00

Made from:

7708-0011
7708-0012

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

949736

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

100120.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

57:00

Made from:

7708-0011
7708-0012

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD579

Restrictions on consultation:

open

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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