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Portrait of Karsh

Item number (ISN):

103455

Series title:

Telescope

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

103455

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

Accession:

1986-0810

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1967-03-23

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

producer, Fletcher Markle; director, Terence Macartney-Filgate

Description:

Profile of internationally-famous photographer Yousuf Karsh of Ottawa. Karsh is shown at work during a professional portrait sitting with author-economist John Kenneth Galbraith; with comments and running narration by Karsh at his home and studio. Karsh discusses: his early years; his start in photography; the photographic sitting and the use of artificial lighting; Ottawa and his home, garden, friends, dog, and music; famous people he has photographed, including Jean-Paul Riopelle, Alexander Calder, Adlai Stevenson, Winston Churchill, Dag Hammarskjold, Pablo Casals, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, Pope John XXIII. Karsh also discusses politics and youth with Galbraith. Galbraith comments on Churchill as a political figure and compares him to Lenin, Gandhi, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. <30mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Subject description taken from CBC screening reports.

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Vault ISN:

247936

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8614-6192

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

KINE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

324200

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9903-0021

Number of items:

1

Duration:

100:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

997780

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9903-0029

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8405-0109
8614-6192
7610-0002
8605-0020
8605-0021
8605-0022
8508-0199
V2 8710-0018
8304-0238
7904-0110
7904-0111

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9903-0021

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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