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The Playground of a Continent

Item number (ISN):

201478

Series title:

Seeing Canada

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1919 ?

Item number (ISN):

201478

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1919 ?

Production company:

Pathescope of Canada

Sponsor:

Exhibits and Publicity Bureau, Department of Trade and Commerce

Description:

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This film promotes tourism in the Muskoka region of Ontario. Part one introduces the natural beauty of the region by using poetry and expressive shots of lake and shore scenery. The film then narrates a boat journey past some places of interest: leaving Muskoka Wharf; arriving at Beaumaris; passing through Indian River to arrive at Port Carling; the canal lock; crowds of people at the shore; continuing on the river to Lake Rousseau; approaching the port at Windermere; arriving at the Royal Muskoka Hotel. Part one concludes with shots of the hotel and its grounds, and activities of its guests including golf and swimming.~Part two continues the tour through Muskoka. Visitors are shown walking through trails in the woods; visiting Rousseau Town; playing tennis and lawn bowling; canoeing on the river. Special attention is paid to the annual Port Carling regatta and the large crowds watching canoe races, swimming, canoe jousting and tug of war, and other games. The journey continues to Bala falls and a train arriving at Bala station where crowds board the train to return home. <8mn 48s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

1153~1154

Notes:

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1. Appears in Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau's 1926 catalogue as no. 22.~2. Appears on list of films sold by Pathescope to the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau in 1925, which perhaps explains the OMPB credits.~3. See also ISN 5023~4. Original version tinted yellow.~5. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

204012

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-1153/A
GC-1154/D

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

204013

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-1153/B
GC-1154/E

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

323871

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9903-0001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-1153/A
GC-1154/D

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

330811

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9905-0009

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

9903-0001

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

333138

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9905-0050

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

9903-0001

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

531154

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2011-04-0013

Number of items:

1

Duration:

64:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

531155

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2011-04-0011

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

9905-0009
9912-0378
2001-07-0072
2011-02-0009

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

913923

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-1153/C

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2011-04-0013

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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