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When Kappa Kappa Gamma Visited Ontario : [incomplete]

Item number (ISN):

158406

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1924

Item number (ISN):

158406

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Part:

3 of 4

Production date:

1924

Production company:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Production credit:

director, Gordon Sparling

Description:

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A semi-dramatized account of a trip made to Ontario by a U.S. sorority. The story is told through a series of reminiscences evoked by looking through an album of snapshots. <14mn 34s>~It shows: medium shot of car stopping at large home; girl walking up to the door being greeted by her friend; medium shot of the two girls at a table in the garden; the visiting girl shows a snapshot album; long shot of Toronto's business section, as a still shot then movement begins; police officer directing traffic; this dissolves into another shot of downtown Toronto panning up the skyscrapers, from the street to the top; several shots of City Hall, one with a girl and camera getting ready to take a picture; long shot of the Parliament Buildings; long shot of University College of the University of Toronto, noted for its finest Norman doorway on the Continent; close-up of the Norman doorway; long shot of Convocation Hall; long shot of the Hart House men's club and its interior courtyard; long shot of Victoria College; medium shot of the Insulin Building photo where Dr. Banting's diabetes treatment is prepared for distribution; medium shot of the two girls looking at the photo album; photograph of Kappa Kappa Gamma girls and a train conductor in front of the train engine; train coming down the tracks from the top right corner of the frame; various shots of the train pulling up to the station at Huntsville and people on the platform going to the boat on the other end of the platform for boarding; close up of a man pulling cargo into the boat and passengers following; long shot of boat on the water and the platform and surrounding shoreline; medium shot of an old man turning lever so that a portion of the bridge will turn to let the boat pass through the bridge opening; various shots of the boat on the water and shots of water and shoreline from the boat; medium shot of the boat docked and train tracks and the station on the right; the train pulls out full of passengers; medium shot of train platform and people boarding the train; train travelling along a one-mile track that joins Peninsula Lake to the Lake of Bays.~Various shots of track a head of the train taken from the front of the train as is going along the track; medium shot of train pulling in to another stop and people getting out; establishing shot of Hotel Britannia on the beautiful Lake of Bays; various shots of Point Ideal, the lake and shoreline; Wawa; Norway Point; hotel lodge; medium shot of veranda filled with people in rocking chairs; panning shot of two girls on a swing set; long shot of a woman walking away from the bay; long shot of people diving off the diving board at the end of a pier; intertitle reading "Province of Ontario Picture"; long shot of people lawn bowling with tennis courts in the background; various shots of people playing golf; man hitting the ball with the golf club; the moving around the hole and coming back to the man (use of trickphotography); he putts again; the ball again dances around the hole then finally goes in; the man cheers; medium shot of rapids; close-up of rapids; establishing shot of Bigwin, water and shoreline, camera panning to the right. End of Part 1.~Intertitle with the following announcement: "Just a Moment While the Handsome Operator is Changing Reels". This incomplete footage then continues with Part 4: close-up of Mrs. Tade Hartstuff Huhns, First Grand President (1881-1884) speaking; medium shot of the two girls looking at the photo album; still shot of someone diving into the bay and the shot dissolving into a moving picture; the person climbing from the water onto the platform; long shot of small boats on the bay; speed boat crossing the bay; still shot of sail boats dissolves into a moving picture of the sailboats moving on the wawter; a shot from the boat as it is leaving the dock; dock is full of people waving at the departing boat; extreme long shot of the boat from above as it is leaving; medium shot of the two girls saying goodbye and of one getting into a car and leaving as the other waves goodbye.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

4157~4158~4160

Notes:

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1. The films of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau: A Preliminary Catalogue, gives date as 1925.~2. Parts 1, 2 and 4 of 4 only.~3. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

150158

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-4157
GC-4158
GC-4160

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

219816

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-4157/A
GC-4160/A

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

219817

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-4157/B
GC-4160/B

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

RED PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

219818

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2012-10-0016

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-4157
GC-4158
GC-4160

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

220984

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9311-0015

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

432628

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2006-11-0029

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

981020

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2006-11-0015

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

9303-0168
7301-8869
7710-0167
7710-0219
GC 4157
GC 4160
9401-0002
9401-0003
9401-0004
2002-04-0211
2002-04-0212
9010-0076
9010-0077
9210-0130
9210-0131
9210-0132

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9311-0015
V1 2006-11-0029

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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