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Yuletide Europe

Item number (ISN):

112018

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

112018

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

Accession:

1986-0810

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1959-12-25

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

director/script, Gerald Richardson; supervising producer, Edward Rollins; photography, Len MacDonald; editing, Doren Miller; Don Haig; commentary, Ted MacGillivray; announcer, Rex Loring; sound, Eric Lindgren; music, Don Wright

Description:

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Film tribute to the approximately 11,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces serving in Europe, who have to spend their Christmas away from home. It includes scenes of Germany and France, radio station CAE (Canadian Army Europe), the daughter of a soldier listening to a CAE radio broadcast, a member of the Military Police getting into a jeep and driving off, a military parade, soldiers on North Atlantic Treaty Organization duties, tank exercises, daily Air Division patrols, ground-to-air communications, radar, a plane landing, a mobile canteen, soldiers resting and playing chess, soldiers rushing to their planes to intercept unidentified aircraft approaching the border, sailors aboard Royal Canadian Navy ship HMCS Algonquin, a visit by sailors to Antwerp, a group of little boys singing a Christmas carol, a military family shopping for groceries in Soest, Germany, the open-air marketplace in Soest, children petting a rabbit in the marketplace, festive lights in the streets, children playing with toys, Canadian airmen and their families living in house trailers due to a housing shortage, the district of Metz, a deserted bunker of the Maginot Line, the historic gates of Metz, Air Division Headquarters in France, Canadian air women with the NATO air division planning vacation travel in other parts of Europe, scenes of Paris, children in a classroom in Germany, the teacher teaching the children about Christmas celebrations in Germany, a Christmas party for homeless children, a Christmas parade, nighttime scene of Christmas lights in Frankfurt, a sentry, the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, and a message from the Minister of National Defence, George Randolph Pearkes. <28mn 29s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Organized under the heading MISCELLANEOUS BY YEAR - 1959 in the Kinescope Inventory Record prepared by CBC.~2. Kinescope inventory record lists title as TROOP SHOW but title on screen is YULETIDE EUROPE.~3. For consultation copy see IDC ISN 294982.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

231481

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8613-3200

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

KINE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

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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