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The Lure of Montreal

Item number (ISN):

18978

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1949

Item number (ISN):

18978

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

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1949

Production company:

Cine-Photography Branch of the Provincial Publicity Bureau
Quebec Department of Education

Production credit:

scenario, Dr. W.P. Percival; photography, Claude Décarie; editing, Robert Angers

Description:

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Film about tourist sites in and around the city of Montreal. It shows: the waterfront; wharves; docks; the Jacques Cartier Bridge; street scenes; the downtown business section; pedestrians, cars, trucks and streetcars; a police officer directing traffic; Dorval airport; Trans-Canada Airlines plane; stately homes; row housing; tree-lined streets; horse-drawn carriages and wagons on lookout on Mount Royal; tourists at the lookout; view of the city skyline; obelisk on the site of the first landing of the French; old buildings; 17th century towers on Sherbrooke Street West; a mansion on Monkland; ruins of a fort and courtyard built in 1692, which is now obscured by trees; artifacts, such as a pointed stone, white quartz, stone ground to form a scraper for hides, a tomahawk, a copper arrowhead, a guard for a sword hilt and the sword of a military officer of New France; tourists at Fort Chambly, 20 miles from Montreal; Fort Lennox at Ile-aux-Noix; Montreal City Hall; the Chateau de Ramezay; Notre-Dame de Bonsecours Church; shoppers and vendors at Bonsecours Market; St. Sulpice Seminary; the Sun Life Building on Dominion Square; St. James Cathedral; Notre Dame Cathedral; Christ Church Cathedral; St. George's Church; the train stations owned by the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways; Montreal schools; McGill University; the Royal Victoria College; the Royal Victoria Hospital; Hôtel-Dieu Hospital; l'Université de Montréal; St. Joseph's Oratory; the Museum of Fine Arts; the city library; the botanical gardens; Parc Lafontaine; St. Helen's Island; fort and blockhouse on the island; monument to Georges-Étienne Cartier; monument to Maisonneuve; the Nelson monument at the head of Jacques Cartier Square; other monuments; a monument to the 1837 patriotes at the foot of Delorimier Avenue, site of their execution during the winter of 1838-1839; Westmount City Hall; people lawn bowling on Nun's Island in Verdun; monument to Robert Lasalle; and the Lachine Rapids.~The voice over narration extols the tourist sites and the bilingual character of Montreal. <28mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Produced by the Cine-Photography Branch of the Quebec Provincial Publicity Bureau in cooperation with the Quebec Department of Education.~2. Recorded at Associated Screen Studios in Montreal.~3. Northern Electric recording.~4. Audio crackle.~5. Crown copyright over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

14878

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-1147
N-1148
N-1149

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

0.7%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

14879

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-6378
7301-6379
7301-6380

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ORIG

Max. shrinkage:

1.10%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

14880

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8210-0741
8210-0742
8210-0743

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.4%

Made from:

8210-0744
8210-0745
8210-0746
8210-0753
8210-0754
8210-0755

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

14881

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8210-0744
8210-0745
8210-0746

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

8210-0747
8210-0748
8210-0749

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

14882

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

8210-0747
8210-0748
8210-0749

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

8210-0750
8210-0751
8210-0752

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

14883

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

8210-0750
8210-0751
8210-0752

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

N-1147
N-1148
N-1149

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

14885

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8210-0753
8210-0754
8210-0755

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

0.7%

Made from:

7301-6378
7301-6379
7301-6380

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

133860

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8910-0319

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

INTERNEG

Made from:

7301-6378

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

154005

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9006-0026

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

405896

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2004-12-0003

Number of items:

1

Duration:

94:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

751129

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

18978-001
18978-002
18978-003

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

28:21

Made from:

8210-0741
8210-0742
8210-0743

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

751131

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

18978-001.WAV
18978-002.WAV
18978-003.WAV

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

28:21

Made from:

8210-0741
8210-0742
8210-0743

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

979547

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2004-12-0012

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

V4 9006-0036

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

990017

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9006-0036

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

7710-0729
7710-0730
7301-7273
7301-7278
7301-7276
7301-7274
7301-7277
7301-7275
7301-8213
7301-6611
8210-0741
8210-0742
8210-0743
7703-0152
7901-0080
7906-1223
8009-0136
8009-0150
7301-9117
7301-6395
7301-6396
7301-6397
7301-6398

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1182391

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_2004-12-0012.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2004-12-0012

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1182392

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_2004-12-0012.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2004-12-0012

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9006-0026
V1 2004-12-0003

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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