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Quintuplets' Second Christmas

Item number (ISN):

200528

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1935

Item number (ISN):

200528

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:

1935

Release date:

1935

Production company:

Pathé News

Description:

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The Dionne quintuplets' second Christmas. Footage of: the quintuplets' compound in winter; nurses decorating a Christmas tree; the babies dressed in snowsuits seeing their toys; Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, dressed in a Santa Claus costume, playing with the quints; and the children looking out of the window.~This is followed by a sequence filmed during the summer months. It shows: rows of cars parked at the Dionne quintuplets' compound; a montage of 1935 licence plates from Ontario and various American states; a sign on one of the tourist buildings across from the quints hospital, which reads "Madam Legros and Madam Lebel Midwives of the Quintuplets Bid You Welcome"; a group of people standing on the roof of the building; a crowd outside the fence around the compound; people buying postcards of the quintuplets; a close-up of the basket in which the newborn quintuplets were kept warm until the incubators arrives; a sign advertising field glasses for rent for 25 cents; crowds running to the fence to get a closer look at the quintuplets; Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe coming out of the hospital building and waving to the crowd; close-ups of the babies; a security guard speaking; nurses holding the the children up one by one, changing a sign so that the crowd knows who each baby is; close-ups of the quintuplets playing indoors; the girls playing with blocks; the quints walking and crawling as Dr. Dafoe looks on; Dr. Dafoe sitting on the floor with the babies; the quints in highchairs; and a nurse brushing the girls' teeth.~The final shot shows the quints dressed in winter clothes. <10mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Material restricted - see OMA file.~2. Misidentified on slate and reference tape as Second Christmas.~3. Title, production date and production responsibility taken from screen.~4. The Christmas sequence runs 1mn 44s.~5. The middle sequence taken in summer may be from a separate film.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

200557

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7808-0410
7808-0412

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.4%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

200558

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7808-0411

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.6%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

201483

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9210-0006

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
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9210-0006
V1 9603-0036

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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