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In the Wake of Captain Cook

Item number (ISN):

183278

Series title:

Seeing Canada

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1922

Item number (ISN):

183278

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADA. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY / MUSÉE NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE

Accession:

1978-0226

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1922

Production company:

Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau

Sponsor:

Department of Trade and Commerce, Exhibits and Publicity Bureau

Description:

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A visit by flying boat to Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island, Canada, early 1920s.~The route traces one explored by Captain Cook in his search for the North-West Passage. Two flying boats start from Vancouver. One is of the Curtiss/Felixstowe types, probably a Felixstowe F5, and the other, with a single engine, is probably a Curtiss H5. A cine cameraman fits his camera into the open-nosed cockpit of the F5. The planes take off and follow the shape of the island round to Friendly Cove, part of Nootka Sound, where they land. The "natives", North American Indians in European dress, watch as the planes taxi to the shore. A disconcerted older woman is offered a coin to pose for the camera. The children and younger people seem happier at being filmed than their elders. The village is made up of substantial, European-style timbered buildings with decorative totem poles outside them. One such pole has a timber effigy of Captain Cook at its top. The cemetery contains the carved headstones of departed chiefs, and various grave goods. The settlement has its own mission station. The planes take off from the village, "leaving behind a trail of amazed wonderment in the minds of its quaint inhabitants". <12mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. CGMPB 1926 Catalogue No. 71.~2. For further information see "Imperial War Museum Film Catalogue, Volume 1 : The First World War Archive", under catalogue number IWM 859.~3. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

175004

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7812-0018

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1.4%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

175348

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9109-0003

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

351588

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2000-11-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7812-0018

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

363659

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2001-10-0054

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

2000-11-0005

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

366447

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2001-12-0099

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

2000-11-0005

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

373937

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2002-07-0008

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

977806

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2002-07-0016

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

9401-0052
9909-0061
7301-3245
8614-1285
2000-11-0102
7812-0018

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9109-0003
V1 2002-07-0008

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur

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