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Your Future Car

Item number (ISN):

185644

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1924

Item number (ISN):

185644

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1924

Production company:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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Film includes shots of: the exterior of the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario showing cars being driven away as men leave after a days work in the plant; still of the Studebaker Auto plant at Walkerville, Ontario; still of the exterior of the Gray-Dort plant at Chatham, Ontario; stills of four buildings at the Ford Auto plant at Ford, Ontario; still of the Maxwell plant at Windsor, Ontario; and the exterior of the Durant plant at Toronto, Ontario showing smoking chimney stacks and cars being driven out the plant's yard. These shots are accompanied by statistics on the automobile industry.~The Progressive Conveyor Systems used to assemble cars at the Durant plant is shown with: a general view of the large assembly shop showing men working on a chassis; a man welding the chassis; a man working on the chassis, attaching springs and rear shaft; a man tightens nuts with a compressed-air driven wrench; partially assembled chassis on conveyor; man installing gasoline tank and another man installing shaft onto chassis; man spraying chassis moving on conveyor which leads to large oven; two men sanding a car body with an electric sander; a man painting a car body with a hose; a man cutting auto canopies from canvas, 104 being cut at a time; five women machine-stitching the canopies with a supervisor watching from behind; a man working on the upholstery assembly line, tucking leather onto the back of a car seat; a man putting tires on wheel rims, inflating tires, and securing wheels onto a car; a man lowering the engine into place with the help of a hoist; man attaching wires to the engine; assembly line with chassis with wheels ready to receive the body; shiny black car body being lowered onto the chassis; man securing same; assembled cars lined up a ready to leave the plant.~Freeze frame footage of the following 1923 models: Durant and Star Convertible; Maxwell convertible; Studebaker sedan; Gray-Dart convertible; Ford sedan; Willy's Knight sedan and Overland convertible; Chevrolet convertible, Oldsmobile convertible, McLaughlin sedan, Buick sedan, Cadillac sedan, and Oakland sedan being displayed at the Canadian National Exhibition. <20mn>

Language:

Silent

Original number:

2234~2235~2236

Notes:

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1. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.~2. The credit line, Province of Ontario Pictures, was a naming protocol invented by George Patton of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

177854

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2234/A
GC-2234/B
GC-2235/C
GC-2235/D
GC-2236/D

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

177855

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2234/C
GC-2235/H
GC-2235/I
GC-2236

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

177860

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2234/B
GC-2234/D
GC-2236/B

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

177870

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7702-0011
7702-0012

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-2234
GC-2235
GC-2236

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

177875

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7705-0181

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7702-0012

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

177877

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8211-0469

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

GC-2235

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

177879

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-4379

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

RED PRT

Made from:

GC-2236

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

177880

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8403-0178

Number of items:

1

Made from:

7301-1694

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

208528

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9211-0018

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

221252

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9311-0058
9311-0059
9311-0060

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-2234
GC-2235
GC-2236

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

223740

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9401-0002
9401-0003
9401-0004

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

9311-0058
9311-0059
9311-0060

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

224112

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9401-0065
9401-0066
9401-0067

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

9311-0058
9311-0059
9311-0060

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

432628

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2006-11-0029

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

663904

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2234
GC-2235
GC-2235/E
GC-2235/F
GC-2235/G
GC-2236/A
GC-2236/C

Number of items:

7

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

981020

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2006-11-0015

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

9303-0168
7301-8869
7710-0167
7710-0219
GC 4157
GC 4160
9401-0002
9401-0003
9401-0004
2002-04-0211
2002-04-0212
9010-0076
9010-0077
9210-0130
9210-0131
9210-0132

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1010080

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-2234/2

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

1165389

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

9311-0058-DPX
9311-0059-DPX
9311-0060-DPX

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

12:20

Made from:

9311-0058
9311-0059
9311-0060

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1165391

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

185644.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

12:20

Made from:

9311-0058
9311-0059
9311-0060

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1165392

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

185644.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

12:20

Made from:

9311-0058
9311-0059
9311-0060

Status:

REF
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8403-0178
V1 9211-0018
V1 2006-11-0029

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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Date modified:: 2024-07-24