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Fish and Medicine Men

Item number (ISN):

195743

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1928

Item number (ISN):

195743

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: STOCK SHOTS

Accession:

1977-0205

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1928

Production company:

Associated Screen News Ltd.

Production credit:

producer, B.E. Norrish; titles, Terry Ramsaye

Sponsor:

Canadian Pacific Railway Company

Description:

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Documentary on the salmon canning industry showing machinery replacing the old manual system.~This documentary deals with the Indian fishing industry on the British Columbia coast. Shots of: the Indian village; the fishing harbour; and the salmon cannery manned by women. Sequences on village life, children, and old men. Shots of an Indian clergyman on the steps of Kincolith church, of medicine men dressing, dancing to a drummer's accompaniement, and curing a sick person lying under a tree.~Footage includes: various shots of villages by lakes; the bay and a sailing boat; fish in the hold of a boat and an Indian fisherman; ancient wooden machinery moving fish - a sort of wooden elevator/hopper; workers in the cannery; the street of an Indian industrial village with wooden huts, Indian women carrying large sacks, and children; Indian women working in a canning factory; fish being canned manually; Indian fishermen in a boat; preparations for a fishing trip; the fishing fleet going out; Indian children in the village; women working at a primitive machine; Indian fishermen talking; sheet music for the song "Thank You for the Buggy Ride"; and an Indian father looking at his baby. The title appears "Nearby is Kincolith - it means the place of skulls, but it is a church town now". Shots of: the wooden church with Indians standing outside; an Indian child; Indians in native costume walking up the village path; medicine men in ceremonial dress; medicine man dressing in ceremonial garb held in a wooden box; medicine men in the woods.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

1920-FG-177

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

192606

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7710-0251

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

192607

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7710-0252

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD579

Restrictions on consultation:

~Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, the NFB, is required to reproduce this material.

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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