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China the Ancient

Item number (ISN):

202749

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1921

Item number (ISN):

202749

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:

1 of 1

Production date:

1921

Production company:

Pathescope of Canada

Production credit:

photography, Richard "Dick" Bird

Description:

A look at China "the ancient". Footage includes: a very busy Chinese city gate with vendors on foot, citizens, rickshaws, peking carts, ox and donkey drawn wagons, men pushing wheelbarrows, and donkeys drawing wheelbarrows; a Chinese Mandarin caravan escorted by body guards; five men pulling a plough with another guiding it from the rear; two women cranking a wheel at a well and drawing water into buckets; blindfolded donkeys operating a grindstone which grinds grain; a Chinese man in front of a house handmixing the contents of a bowl; a Chinese woman winnowing grain in a field; a beggar killing fleas between his fingernails; a young Chinese girl, in traditional costume, bowing in front of the camera; and a little Chinese boy, dressed in winter clothing, begging from the cameraman. <10mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. From the Class 1000 series of Graphics Consultants catalogue.~2. The copyright history as far as is known as of October 1998: original copyright rested with Pathescope of Canada Ltd.; Pathescope was reincorporated as The Canadian Film and Slide Company in the 1920s; during the 1930s The Canadian Film and Slide Company became part of General Films; and in 1960 General Films sold to New England Ind. Inc.~3. Therefore, the last known copyright owner documented by VSA is New England Ind. Inc.~4. Dick Bird, the creator of this film, died in 1986.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

177880

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8403-0178

Number of items:

1

Made from:

7301-1694

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

204898

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9211-0058

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-1000/CLASS F

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

204899

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9211-0059

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-1000/CLASS F

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

206726

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9211-0060

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

9211-0059

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

208528

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9211-0018

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

641503

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-1000/CLASS F

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

855755

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

202749-001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

6:32

Made from:

9211-0058

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

855756

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

202749.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

6:32

Made from:

9211-0058

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

855758

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

202749.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

6:32

Made from:

9211-0058

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8403-0178
V1 9211-0018

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:

Under copyright until 31 December 2036.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: New England Ind. Inc.

Reproduction access:

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

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