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Now It Can Be Told

Item number (ISN):

160218

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1940/1945

Item number (ISN):

160218

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ASSOCIATED SCREEN NEWS LTD.

Accession:

1973-0127

Media:

Film

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1940/1945

Production company:

Electrolux Canada Ltd.

Production credit:

director/scenario, A.C. Wilkinson; photography, Alan Moorhouse; narrator, Lawrence Thor

Description:

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The war effort of the Electrolux Company of Canada.~This shows the staff of the Factory Division and the Home Office of Electrolux (Canada) Limited in Montreal and the war-related work it did during 1940 to 1945. There are visuals of: the stafff; workers outside one of the Electrolux buildings; and Electrolux vacuum cleaner dealer and a female customer; soldiers, sailors, and women in the military; the office stafff; managers; stock room stafff; repairmen; the labour-management committee and the manufacturing department. The narration talks about the changes in the Electrolux workforce because of the war, with Electrolux employees (men and "girls") serving in the armed forces. The narration states that "women have taken the place of men to a marked degree". The government order of 1942 which suspended the manufacture of non-essential goods in order to devote more resources to manufacturing equipment and other goods needed by the military, had an impact on Electrolux because it had to stop making vacuum cleaners for home use and switched ovr to making equipment and parts needed by the military.~Footage of: women in the fuse department operating drill presses to make fuses for hand grenades; various parts for the striker in hand grenades; women inspecting fuse parts for plasticf hand grenades; a worker talking to a nurse in the factory's health centre; a woman selecting a record to play over the gramophone which piped music over a loudspeaker to the factory workers; company workers doing paperwork for a tender for the Department of Munitions and Supply; women making parts for small motors used by the Canadian navy and the Royal Canadian Air Force; the company's chief engineer talking about some of the problems of manufacturing such motors; the use of the motors, originally designed for motion picture cameras to take gun camera footage; the making of a cable contact for the firing mechanism for naval guns; the Basin Street factory in Montreal; the making of two-stage high pressure pumps for 25-pounder guns and auxiliary units on tank-buster guns; the staff lunch room; the adaptation of the blower unit of Electrolux vacuum cleaners for use in cooling vacuum tubes in stationary radio locators that signal the approach of planes; the use of Electrolux motors as antenna motors for portable radar units; troops in action as the narrtion talks about the use of such equipment during the Sicily landings; officials on a Trans-Canada Airlines plane, delivering equipment made by Electrolux; the making of step-by-step motors, square motors and tank parts; the adapting of vacuum cleaners for use in purifying the air inside tanks, neutralizing gunfire recoil fumes; the use of vacuum cleaners in military and civilian hospitals; Electrolux staff, particularly sales staff, helping in the Victory Loans campaigns; salesmen going door to door to get Victory Loan contributions; staff working for Red Cross charity campaigns; and staff volunteers compiling ration books.~Also shown are Electrolux staff playing in the Montreal Industrial Softball League, at a horseshoe pitch, bowling, engaging in other sports, and dancing. <26mn 7s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

F-369

Notes:

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1. A.C. Wilkinson was the advertising manager of Electrolux Canada Ltd.~2. Some audio hiss.~3. No closing credits.~4. Connection to Associated Screen News not known, but Lawrence Thor also did narration for ASN productions.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

152516

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-7273
7301-7274
7301-7275

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Max. shrinkage:

1.1%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

154005

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9006-0026

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

405896

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2004-12-0003

Number of items:

1

Duration:

94:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

858661

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-7276
7301-7277
7301-7278

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

NEG

Max. shrinkage:

1.1%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

925957

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

160218-001
160218-002
160218-003

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

26:05

Made from:

7301-7273
7301-7274
7301-7275

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

925958

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

160218-001.WAV
160218-002.WAV
160218-003.WAV

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

26:05

Made from:

7301-7276
7301-7277
7301-7278

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

925959

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

160218.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

26:05

Made from:

7301-7273
7301-7274
7301-7275
7301-7276
7301-7277
7301-7278

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

925960

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

160218.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

26:05

Made from:

160218.MOV

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

979547

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2004-12-0012

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

V4 9006-0036

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

990017

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9006-0036

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

7710-0729
7710-0730
7301-7273
7301-7278
7301-7276
7301-7274
7301-7277
7301-7275
7301-8213
7301-6611
8210-0741
8210-0742
8210-0743
7703-0152
7901-0080
7906-1223
8009-0136
8009-0150
7301-9117
7301-6395
7301-6396
7301-6397
7301-6398

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1182391

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_2004-12-0012.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2004-12-0012

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1182392

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_2004-12-0012.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2004-12-0012

Status:

REF
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9006-0026
V1 2004-12-0003

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Electrolux Canada Ltd.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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