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[News Compilation No. 5]

Item number (ISN):

190215

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1920/1939

Item number (ISN):

190215

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Type of material:

Moving images

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1970-0046

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1920/1939

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Description:

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News items on the following:~Ste-Anne de Beaupre. Celebration of the Festival of St. Anne by thousands of pilgrims from across Canada and the United States. Shots of the crowds, the shrine, and the procession of cardinals and bishops filing past the camera.~Visit on Battleship. Visitors and cadets on board a British battleship in Montreal. Shots of superstructure of battleship. Shots of mechanical semaphore in operation; dancing on the deck; cadets being shown instruments on the bridge; and battleships in the harbour. Cadets dancing with there dates on deck of the ship. cadets climbing main mast.~Flying Boat Launched. Flying boat designated "EU", the first made-in-Canada seaplane, is christened by a woman and launched down slipway. Ground to air shots of the seaplane in flight and on water.~Student Demonstration. Students of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg demonstrate for new buildings. Shots of student carrying placards, chanting slogans, and driving through snow-covered streets.~Bumper Wheat Crop - 1925. Saskatchewan Premier Charles A. Dunning, Lieutenant Governor Henry Newlands, and Agricultural Minister Hamilton with Governor General Viscount Byng of Vimy watch as horse-drawn binders harvest grain.~Kings Plate Horse Race.~Sulky Race.~The Honourable Manning Doherty.~Toronto Sulky Race.~Emmett Wins 50-Mile Walking Race.~Athletic Meet in Montreal.~Goodyear Blimp Visits Canada.~War Machinery Scrapped. Horse-drawn cart pulls into scrap-yard and a crane unloads a heavy piece of war machinery. Two men set about its destruction with sledge-hammers. A steel ball is seen demolishing other machinery in the scrap-yard. <91mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

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1. Subject description from viewing, documentation, can, and occasional captions.~2. This material has been drawn from Fox material and other production companies.~3. Several items are repeated on other holdings and catalogued under other titles.~4. Each story is approximately seven minutes long.~5. Story called visit on Battleship also catalogued under title British Battleship in Montreal Harbour on a separate PDC card, which gives duration as 30 seconds.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8108-0024
V1 8401-0004
V1 8503-0031

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

closed : to be used for reference purposes only within NA and not to be duplicated for commercial use

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