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Growing Up

Item number (ISN):

200511

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1940

Item number (ISN):

200511

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ONTARIO MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Accession:

1978-0223

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1940

Release date:

1940

Production company:

Pathé News

Production credit:

producer, Frank Donovan; editing, Jay Bonafield; scenario, Dudley Hale; sound, Francis Woolley; narrator, Allan Roy Dafoe

Distributor name:

RKO Radio Pictures Inc.

Description:

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The Dionne quintuplets on their sixth birthday.~This is a retrospective of footage from the time of their birth to their sixth birthday. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe sits in an easy chair and talks to the camera, pipe in hand, saying that the children are getting along fine. His voiceover accompanies scenes of the quints, starting as newborns in 1934. Footage includes: the babies being weighed; the babies wrapped in quilts; Dr. Dafoe checking the girls; nurses preparing milk; the babies sitting up; the quints at the age of one; the quints in the bath; nurses combing the girls' hair; Christmas with Dr. Dafoe; the quints combing Dr. Dafoe's hair; Dr. Dafoe talking to the quints on the telephone; crowds looking at the quints; the quints in the garden of their compound; the quints singing nursery rhymes with their nurses and dancing on the lawn of their compound; the girls playing in the snow; the quints watching a movie for the first time, a Mickey Mouse cartoon; the girls playing outside in their toy grocery store; the quints getting ready for a trip to Toronto to meet King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939 (the meeting is not shown); their fifth birthday party, attended by Bishop Nelligan (footage from the film FIVE TIMES FIVE); the quints wearing plaid hats; the quints listening to actuality of a radio broadcast by Princess Elizabeth (footage from the film THE PRINCESS AND THE QUINTS); the girls learning to knit while narrator Dafoe states that they are doing their part for the war effort; the quints holding Union Jacks; and the quints singing "There'll Always be an England". <19mn 30s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Material restricted - see OMA file.~2. Opening title reads "RKO Pathé Presents Growing Up".

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Vault ISN:

200534

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7808-0381

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1.1%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

201484

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9210-0007

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

357285

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2001-03-0009

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

976639

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2001-03-0010

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

7808-0381
7705-0491
7705-0492
7705-0494
7705-0495
8704-0185

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9210-0007
V1 2001-03-0009

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, the Ontario Medical Association is required to reproduce this material.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: RKO Pathe.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of OMA : with permission of the Dafoe family : with permission of the Dionnes : see notes

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