Collection search - Our Heroic Canadian Brothers = [Canadians on the Western Front] = [With the Canadians on the Western Front]

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Our Heroic Canadian Brothers = [Canadians on the Western Front] = [With the Canadians on the Western Front]

Item number (ISN):

18425

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1918

Item number (ISN):

18425

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

LOMBARD

Accession:

1969-0030

Media:

Film

Original title:

Our Heroic Canadian Brothers

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1918

Release date:

1918

Sponsor:

War Office

Distributor name:

Pathe

Description:

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British film of the Canadian Corps forces on the Western Front 1917-1918. Engineers, British or more probably Canadians, constructing and operating a narrow gauge railway. Part 1. Firstly, horse-drawn scoops flatten out the path, then complete sections of rail, with sleepers already attached, are laid. Flatcars are loaded with 8-inch shells and sent forward on the railway fron the dump, past Piccadilly and Crucifix junctions to and 8-inch Mk V howitzer battery. Part 2. Canadian soldiers in France voting in the general election on 17 December 1917. A village, probably Vimy area, being shelled, filmed from some distance away. Canadians, probably of 3rd Division, holding a pay parade in a shell damaged village. A brigade paraded to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation on 1 July 1917 with a service, watched by Lieutenant-General Currie, the Canadian Corps commander, and General Horne, commander of First Army. Rubble and remains of the village of Vimy; a company of 42nd Battalion, Black Guards (Royal Highlanders of Canada) return from the village. <16mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Description from the Imperial War Museum Catalogue Volume 1, IWM 465.~2. Mistake made in original description, date of Confederation identified as June 1 intead of July 1.~3. This material appears to be from OUR HEROIC CANADIAN BROTHERS but VSA documentation refers to it as CANADIANS ON THE WESTERN FRONT or WITH THE CANADIANS ON THE WESTERN FRONT.~4. Material is not in the same order as the copy held by the Imperial War Museum.~5. Given the 90-year rule, this title is under copyright until 2009.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

16013

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-1203

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

42577

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0021

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7301-0023

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

42580

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0022

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-1203

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

42581

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0023

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7301-0022

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

71799

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8801-0007

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

370975

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8103-0370

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

7301-0022

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

633485

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2013-05-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

90:00

Made from:

7301-0023
8601-0321
2008-09-0044
8705-0121
7612-0043
8010-0125
7301-2701
8706-0077
7301-8412
8706-0073
2001-03-0132
8706-0071
8105-0394
8902-0253
7301-1984

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

633533

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2013-04-0006

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

120:00

Made from:

V4 2013-05-0005

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

700929

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

18425.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

16:00

Made from:

N-1203

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

700928

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

18425-001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

16:00

Made from:

N-1203

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

991273

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9202-0050

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

8405-0465
8002-0375
8706-0074
8505-0186
7301-0248
8009-0535
9107-0043
9107-0044
9107-0045
9107-0046
9107-0047
9107-0048
9107-0049
9107-0050
8009-0344
7301-0023

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

999469

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

18425.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

18425.MOV

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1182506

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_2013-05-0005.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2013-05-0005

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1182507

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_2013-05-0005.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2013-05-0005

Status:

REF
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8801-0007
V1 2013-04-0006

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 2009.

Copyright owner:

Original copyright owner: British government.~Copyright owner: Imperial War Museum.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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