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The Kinsmen

Item number (ISN):

18747

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1938

Item number (ISN):

18747

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:

The Kinsmen

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1938

Production company:

Associated Screen News Ltd.

Production credit:

director, Gordon Sparling; photography, Ross Beesley; technical advisor, H.H. Webb; special effects, Harold Peberdy; editing, A.R. Thom; scenario, Margot Blaisdell; narrator, Christopher Ellis; musical director, Howard Fogg; sound, Maurice Metzger

Sponsor:

Canadian Wheat Board

Description:

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Documentary about wheat farming in the Prairies, beginning with the story of Scots immigrant David Fife, who developed the hardy Red Fife wheat that made successful wheat farming in Canada possible.~The film shows: David Fife's farm in Ontonabee Township near Peterborough, Ontario; the pioneer cemetery where Fife is buried; planting and harvesting wheat in the Prairie provinces; tilling with horse and tractor-drawn equipment; threshing; an actor portraying a harvester singing with guitar and accordion accompaniment; transporting grain to grain elevators; rows of grain elevators along the railway tracks; transporting grain by rail; a freight train travelling along the horizon; an animated map showing the movement of grain between Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Canada's newest port, Churchill, Manitoba; grain elevators at Churchill; an aerial view of Vancouver; the ship Empress of Japan in dock; loading grain onto ships such as Gregalia of Glasgow; Winnipeg; sound-on-film actuality of the trading floor of the grain exchange in Winnipeg, the largest cash grain market in the world; railyards; grain-laden rail cars; members of the Board of Grain Commissioners inspecting samples of wheat in freight cars; grain inspection in a laboratory; the Dominion Rust Research Laboratory; government agronomists studying grain diseases and new types of hard wheat; a scientist in a greenhouse talking about rust to a woman interviewer; a rodeo; farmers looking at the sky; the harvest; various kinds of harvesting equipment; women preparing a meal for the harvesters; transporting grain to the Lakehead; loading grain onto lake freighters; the Great Lakes; tourists and the Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls; ships travelling through the Welland Canal to Lake Ontario; the Rapids Prince travelling through the rapids on the St. Lawrence River; other ships bypassing the rapids by travelling through canals such as the Soulange, site of the first lock on the American continent; Montreal; unloading grain at Montreal and loading it onto ocean-going ships bound for the land of David Fife's birth. <43mn 16s>

Language:

English

Original number:

B-728

Notes:

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1. Gordon Sparling, the creator of this film, died in 1994.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

16583

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-0286
N-0288
N-0290
N-0292

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

16584

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-0287
N-0289
N-0291
N-0293

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

16585

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-0294
N-0295
N-0306

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

16586

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-0296
N-0297
N-0298
N-0299

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

16587

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-0300
N-0301
N-0302
N-0303

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

16588

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-0304
N-0305

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

16589

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-0307
N-0308

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

16590

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-1770
N-1771
N-1772
N-1773

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

16591

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-1111
7301-1112
7301-1113
7301-1114

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.5%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

16592

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0888
7301-0889
7301-0890
7301-0891

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-0284
N-0285
N-0286
N-0287
N-0288
N-0289
N-0290
N-0291
N-0292
N-0293
N-0294
N-0295
N-0296
N-0297
N-0298
N-0299
N-0300
N-0301
N-0302
N-0303
N-0304
N-0305
N-0306
N-0307
N-0308
N-1770
N-1771
N-1772
N-1773

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

16593

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0892
7301-0893

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-0284
N-0285
N-0286
N-0287
N-0288
N-0289
N-0290
N-0291
N-0292
N-0293
N-0294
N-0295
N-0296
N-0297
N-0298
N-0299
N-0300
N-0301
N-0302
N-0303
N-0304
N-0305
N-0306
N-0307
N-0308
N-1770
N-1771
N-1772
N-1773

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

16595

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-1182

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1.2%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

16596

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

13-0014

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Duration:

41:30

Made from:

7301-1182

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

57606

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8708-0017

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

NEG

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

57623

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8708-0018

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

N-284

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

57624

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

8708-0019

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

8708-0018

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

191433

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9205-0012

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9205-0012

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: Canadian Wheat Board.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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