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Quintupland

Item number (ISN):

200516

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1938

Item number (ISN):

200516

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:

2 of 2

Production date:

1938

Production company:

Pathé News

Production credit:

director, Frank Donovan; supervisor, Frederic Ullman Jr.; narration, André Baruch; musical director, Nathaniel Shilkret; photography, Tom Hogan; editing, Foster Travis; sound; Clarence Ellis; Frank Woolley

Distributor name:

RKO Radio Pictures Inc.

Description:

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The town of Callander, Ontario, the birthplace of the Dionne quintuplets. The effects of the tourist industry based around the quintuplets on the town are shown four years after the birth of the girls. Included is footage of the quintuplets at the age of four.~Footage of: Callander and the Quints' compound in winter; aerial view of the compound and surrounding buildings in winter; the train station in Callander; souvenir stands near the compound, including the shop run by Oliva Dionne, the quints' father; the hospital building; the nursery; the observation gallery for the public; Dr. Dafoe arriving at the compound; Dr. Dafoe dressed in a fur coat and cap; the quintuplets on the front porch, dressed in fur coats; and the quintuplets playing outside in the snow with sleds, skis, and shovels.~Various shots of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe at his office and the Dionne quintuplets at home.~Footage of: Dr. Dafoe's house in Callander, Ontario; his nameplate; Dafoe sitting in an easy chair by the fire; a cupboard containing medicines; Dafoe family photographs; Dafoe's diplomas; actuality of Dafoe reading a script for one of his three weekly radio broadcasts for CBS radio, talking about the importance of rest for mothers; an operator is shown in Dafoe's study while Dafoe reads his script; close-ups of letters received by Dafoe; Dafoe and a male secretary discussing his correspondence; Dafoe dictating a reply; the Dionne Quintuplets' business manager, Keith [Munroe], and secretary-treasurer, William Flanner, looking over a ledger of the quintuplets' accounts; close-up of some of the accounts, showing contract payments from such companies as Pathé News and Colgate-Palmolive for the year 1937; a voice-over explaining that the quints' financial worth, enriched by newspaper and motion picture contracts, gives them an average yearly income of close to $200,000; close-ups of Colgate-Palmolive print advertisements featuring the quintuplets; exterior of a Canadian Bank of Commerce branch in North Bay; two men, one apparently a bank official and the other Judge [Valence], who handle the investments of the quintuplets; one of the men cutting up what appears to be sheet of bonds as the narrator explains that they have invested the quints' money in Grade A bonds; scenes of the quints' belongings, neatly organized in sets of five, such as boots, mitts, hats, coats, toothbrushes and towels; the quintuplets eating, sitting down, singing, playing dressup with the nurses' clothing, and playing with sound recording equipment used by the newsreel crew; the crew member responsible for the sound recording in surgical gown and mask; Yvonne singing into the microphone; the quintuplets looking at their first movie, a Mickey Mouse cartoon; one of the nurses shown projecting the cartoon; and the quints saying their prayers before going to bed.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Title, distributor, and production responsibility taken from screen.~2. No closing credits.~3. Title on slate is misspelled Quintupletland.~4. Opening credits state that this is a RKO-Pathé presentation copyright 1938 Pathé News Inc.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

200530

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7808-0375

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1.5%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

200543

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7808-0391

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1.2%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

201484

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9210-0007

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

277448

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9603-0037

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

277449

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9603-0036

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

995452

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9603-0083

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

7808-0388
7808-0390
7808-0410
7808-0412
7808-0405
7808-0406
7808-0408
7808-0409
7808-0391
7808-0403
7808-0393
7808-0375

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9210-0007
V1 9603-0037
V1 9603-0036

Donor restrictions:

Until otherwise indicated, the permission of the OMA is required to reproduce this material.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Original copyright owner: Pathé News Inc.

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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