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The King's Highway

Item number (ISN):

157269

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1922/1923

Item number (ISN):

157269

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:

3 of 3

Production date:

1922/1923

Production company:

Filmcraft

Sponsor:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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Early automobile travelling on newly finished asphalt highway. Traffic on asphalt finished New York State highways. Construction of concrete and asphalt highways in the US. Man operating concrete mixer, sign on machine reads "Rossney Cont'g Corp., Buffalo, NY". Men spreading concrete on road from portable concrete mixer. Early automobiles on Ontario highways. Fruit pickers loading fruit onto trucks. Trucks and automobiles near large farmers market. Shots of dealers and shoppers. Ontario highway under construction. Truck unloading asphalt. Man spreading asphalt. High angle shot of roughed out highway ready for construction. Bridge over ravine - possibly the Bloor Street viaduct. North Yonge Street as a broken dirt road. Same stretch after the asphalt is resurfaced. Early automobiles using the asphalt road from Niagara Falls via Hamilton to Toronto. License plates from Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, and New York shown. Early 1920s motor boat with American Flag on lake. Travelling shot of lake taken from boat showing lakeshore and forest. Two fishermen in canoe in middle of the lake with an extreme close up of one of the men unhooking a fish. Traffic on highway. Light traffic on the Ottawa-Prescott highway and on Markham Road. Heavy traffic on the Toronto-Hamilton highway. Man spraying tar on highway from pressure distributor. Truck with hydraulic tip-up box unloading gravel on road. Ontario Provincial Department of Highways' graphic demonstration of highway layouts, outlining provincial highways, country roads, township and village roads. Harness racing with early cars in parking lot. Street scene in Oakville showing houses, traffic and telegraph poles. Highway and bridge on the outskirts of Oakville. Open convertible pulling up in front of the Oakville Cinema House. People entering the cinema showing Jackie Coogan in MY BOY. Children playing baseball in a field. Auto traffic in background.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

2248~2249~2250

Notes:

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1. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

54218

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8306-0087

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

149726

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2248
GC-2249
GC-2250

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

150174

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2248/A
GC-2249/A
GC-2232

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

152781

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9004-0185

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

330112

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9904-0104
9904-0105
9904-0106

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-2248
GC-2249
GC-2250

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

333636

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9906-0038
9906-0039
9906-0040

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

9904-0104
9904-0105
9904-0106

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

374816

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2250/C
GC-2250/E
GC-2250/F

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

374820

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2250/B

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

432688

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2006-11-0030

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

956948

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2250/D

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

981021

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2006-11-0016

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

9906-0038
9906-0039
9906-0040
8204-0002
8204-0003
9902-0013
8205-0215
8205-0216
8310-0798
8711-0554

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8306-0087
V1 2006-11-0030

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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