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Mining Ontario's Gypsum - Gypsum Mining

Item number (ISN):

188763

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1920/1929

Item number (ISN):

188763

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: NON NFB FILMS

Accession:

1982-0218

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1920/1929

Production company:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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Footage includes: exterior of the gsum mine at Caledonia; various shots of tools being repaired in the underground workshop; mules resting in underground stables; underground railway system; gypsum being drilled before blasting; preparation for blasting; mules drawing loaded cars of gypsum to the crushing and drying operations; small particles of gypsum travelling through the Pennsylvania Hammer Mill equipped with sixty hammers then passing through a screen directly to the kettles for calcination; tailings going to Mexicon Mill where they are ground and pass on to the kettles; raw gypsum turned to plaster of paris; shots of plaster of paris being mixed with sawdust and water and then being passed into a mixer where clearing paddles carry it on to a board machine; various shots showing board travelling along to foot conveyor belt to an antomatic knife which cuts boards into different lengths as required and transfers boards to trucks; shots of trucks heavily lined with gypsum taking boards to the kiln where they remain from twelve to thirteen hours; and the boards, now ready for the stockroom, are shipped to all parts of the world.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. The credit line, Province of Ontario Pictures, was a naming protocol invented by George Patton of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau.~2. See also IDC 341246 MINING ONTARIO GYPSUM for 28mm three reel version.~3. This version is a slightly shorter version with different font style inter-titles.~4. There is an index card with the above subject description inside the can 8210-0006.

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Vault ISN:

180058

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8210-0043

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

180102

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8210-0006

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Max. shrinkage:

0.6%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8210-0043

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD579

Reproduction access:

Crown copyright : no donor restrictions

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