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Northwest by Air = Vers le nord par avion

Item number (ISN):

162831

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

162831

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: 1982-1985

Accession:

1983-0378

Media:

Film

Original title:

Northwest by Air

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1944

Production company:

National Film Board

Production credit:

producer, James Beveridge; Margaret Perry; images, Donald Fraser; Joe Gibson; narrator, King Whyte; music, Maurice Blackburn

Country of production:

cn

Description:

Planning and construction of a chain of airfields through Canada Northwest from Edmonton to Fairbanks, Alaska. Aerials of forbidding Mountain terrain. Men survey route and plan chain of airfields along the Mackenzie River Valley. Freight is shipped north by tractor train and railway, barge and truck. Lenghty sequence on water transport by barge and sternwheelers and on Indians manning them. Shots of Nahanni Indian encampments. Men building an air base at Watson Lake. Shots of U.S. Army Transport C-47, Lockheed Hudson's, etc. of Canadian Pacific Ariline DC-3's etc. and of Edmonton airport. Final aerial views of mountains. <15mn>

Language:

English

Original number:

106B 0144 192

Notes:

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1. For more information see "The National Film Guide From 1939 to 1989".

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

154987

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8220-0313

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

154988

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8220-0375

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD579

Reproduction access:

with written permission by National Film Board of Canada

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