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Record information – Brief Where East Meets West
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1925Item number (ISN):194538Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.Accession:1972-0105Media:FilmPart:2 of 2Production date:1925Production company:Ontario Motion Picture BureauDescription:A picture of commercial traffic at Fort William.~Includes footage of: lake freighters being unloaded alongside the jetty at Fort William; men loading steel tracks onto an open train wagon; giant grain elevators under construction with finished elevators and freighters in the background; long spouts leading from the grain elevators pouring grain into the freighters hold; two men with long ladles taking samples of the grain; Mount McKay near Fort William; mine below the mountain; open wagon being flipped sideways to unload coal onto the ground; 90-ton steam shovel loading blast rock onto open freight cars (3000 tons of rock per day is handled by this mine); rock being carried by conveyor belt to crushing machine; large machines washing and separating rock; and freight train being loaded with crushed rock to be used for road construction in eastern and western Canada.Language:Silent with English intertitlesOriginal number:1438~1439Notes:Detailed holdings information: -
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