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Breaking the Ice

Item number (ISN):

111112

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1925 ?

Item number (ISN):

111112

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1925 ?

Production company:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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The arrival of winter in the month of December seals up the harbours of the Great Lakes with ice, greatly impeding freight traffic. Shots of the landscape buried in frost and snow testify to the low temperatures. But all is not lost, as an intertitle reassures that "Man rises superior to Nature" as "systematic ice-breaking operations advance the season of navigation by several weeks". The twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur are saluted for their enterprise, as channels are kept open all winter due to sturdy tugboats equipped with re-inforced hills enabling them to grapple with the thickest ice. Teaser footage of a tugboat sailing through cakes of broken ice on the lake is shown. The general process of ice-breaking is demonstrated, starting with a short explanation of the formation of ice masses on the lake that culminates in a shot of an ice section in Thunder Bay measuring 38 inches in thickness. Footage of the tugboat "Strathmore" in action, manoeuvering for a full-steam ahead charge to break an ice cap with its hull. The specially-built ship ploughs its way through the frozen surface, often riding on top and breaking through the ice by sheer weight. Several runs are required by the "Strathmore" until ice finally breaks, leaving a channel of water and crushed ice cakes in its wake. The job now completed, the tugboat returns to home port where a huge hibernating grain carrier awaits for eventual departure on a cleared passage, thanks to the ice-breaking work of the "Strathmore". <9mn 52s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

4171~4172

Notes:

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1. Ontario Motion Picture Bureau, Trenton, Ontario.~2. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.~3. The credit line, Province of Ontario Pictures, was a naming protocol invented by George Patton of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

132186

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8910-0211

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-4171/A
GC-4172/A

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

132188

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8910-0212

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8910-0211

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

132190

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8910-0213

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8910-0211

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

137489

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8911-0011

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

430021

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2006-09-0009

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

633427

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-4171/A
GC-4172/A

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

913278

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-4171/B
GC-4172/B

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

980920

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2006-09-0033

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8910-0213
9609-0068
9609-0070
7301-3228
8606-0034
7301-3222
7706-1268
7706-1269
2000-11-0055
2000-04-0136

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8911-0011
V1 2006-09-0009

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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