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Distant Cousins

Item number (ISN):

18488

Series title:

Canadian Cameo

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1935

Item number (ISN):

18488

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

Original title:

Distant Cousins

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1935

Release date:

1935-08

Production company:

Associated Screen News Ltd.

Production credit:

producer, B.E. Norrish; director, Gordon Sparling; scenario, David M. Legate; narrator, Corey Thomson; music, Howard Fogg; sound, Maurice Metzger

Country of production:

cn

Description:

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Documentary about the Maoris of New Zealand, who are called distant cousins of the British Empire. It shows: men fishing; women wearing and making garments from a type of flax and trimming them with kiwi bird feathers; a young woman feeding an elder in observance with the Maori taboo that the food intended for chieftains and priests must never be touched by human hands;~a man destroying the remnants of his meal by burning them; men performing a war dance with actuality of them chanting as they dance; women sitting on grass and watching the dance; special tools used to tattoo the men; priest tattooing a man's face and the man trying not to flinch from pain; women look on;~Maori women doing a traditional dance that includes actuality of dancers singing and intricate movements with a small ball made from bullrushes; actuality of women talking as they make balls; a few people sit and watch the dance; women at hot springs and hot sands; women go swimming; one dives in as others talk and laugh; voiceover narration calls the women "carefree children of nature"; women swing on rope over water; one lets go and falls in; and shots of women swimming underwater. <10mn 55s>

Language:

English

Original number:

B-675

Notes:

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1. ASN Production Number: B-675.~2. Gordon Sparling, the creator of this film, died in 1994.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

14517

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-1930

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

14518

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-1931

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

14519

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0863

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

N-1930
N-1931

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

14520

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8407-0065

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-1930
N-1931

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

14521

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8407-0066

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

N-1931

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

14522

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8407-0067

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-1931

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

14523

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8407-0068

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

N-1930
N-1031

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

14524

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

8407-0064

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

N-1931

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

27363

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8610-0074

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

505131

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2010-01-0004

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

505132

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2010-01-0004

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

120:00

Made from:

8207-0910
8207-0938
8210-0010
8407-0068
9406-0483
2009-11-0137
7807-0027
7807-0028
7906-1116
7708-0557
8207-0929

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1184234

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_2010-01-0004.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2010-01-0004

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1184235

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_2010-01-0004.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2010-01-0004

Status:

REF
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8610-0074
V1 2010-01-0004

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 31 December 2044.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: National Archives of Canada.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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