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Finnie, Richard Sterling - Interview

Item number (ISN):

211538

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1975-04-08

Item number (ISN):

211538

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADA. NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF CANADA / ARCHIVES NATIONALES DU CANADA: DOCUMENTARY ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Accession:

1975-0059

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1975-04-08

Production company:

Claude Minotto (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Claude Minotto

Description:

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Interview conducted in English and in French, of Dr. Richard Sterling Finnie, a member of the Canadian government's East Arctic expedition of 1924 and filmmaker, by Claude Minotto, archivist with Public Archives of Canada. Finnie discusses his beginnings in filmmaking where he learned first hand from veteran cameramen George Valiquette and Roy Tash using Akeley and Bell & Howell cameras, and he subsequently used a hand-held Eyemo motion picture camera provided by the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau and from which he received training in Ottawa, before heading out on expedition. Finnie talks about Captain Bernier; trips onboard the Arctic; the mark left by whalers and the changes occuring over time to trading and trapping; cinematographer's job to project films onboard ship pertaining to previous expeditions and trips; the relationship with Danish explorers and Inuit; the Nukudla-Janes murder trial; Admiral Richard Byrd's flights over Ellesmere Island in 1925 and the question of sovereignty; Finnie's impressions of the RCMP as a force and as individuals; coastal trips to outposts along Baffin Island, Ellesmere Island, and Devon Island; bush flying in western Arctic beginning in 1927 versus eastern Arctic flights that happened much later when commercial flying was established; his Arctic trips with the Department of the Interior and documenting by making film records of communities in eastern and western Arctic during 1920s and 1930s; photography as a method of documenting the north; Harwood Steele, historian, author and journalist; film records Finnie made of the expeditions were used mainly for lectures versus early films made by the National Film Board for distribution; re-use of these film records as stock-shots; potential for wider distribution of these types of films in the United States; earliest cinematography in the Canadian Arctic by Sir Hubert Wilkins with the Canadian Arctic Expedition sponsored by the Canadian government; Robert Flaherty's filming of Nanook of the North sponsored by Révillion Frères; amateur shooting with individual 16mm cameras; possible Hudson's Bay Company sponsored films; Donald B. MacMillan, American Arctic explorer, lectured extensively using film; Putnam's films of his Arctic travels; amateur photography and filmmaking by members of the religious order and others to document the north; Finnie provides commentary on photos in albums from the Department of Interior collection, photos by Roy Tash, Richard Finnie, Livingstone, and other photographers taken during various expeditions; by 1930, although Finnie didn't have a sound camera, he shot all frames of his films at 24 FPS. <4h 19mn>

Language:

English / Français

Notes:

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1. Recorded by the Public Archives of Canada in Ottawa as a donor interview.~2. Claude Minotto was an archivist in the Documentary Art and Photography Section of the Public Archives of Canada.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

213969

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00479

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

259:00

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

668114

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

211538-C00479-S1.WAV
211538-C00479-S2.WAV

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

C00479

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

668115

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

211538-C00479-S1.MP3
211538-C00479-S2.MP3

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

C00479

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

668455

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2014-04-0011

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

DVD

Duration:

256:00

Made from:

C00479

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

168259

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C08985
C08987

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

C00479

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

168261

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C08988

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

C00479
1982-0204/031
1982-0204/036
1982-0204/032
1982-0204/033
1982-0204/037
1982-0204/038

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2014-04-0011

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 26538

Restrictions on consultation:

open for consultation

Donor restrictions:

reproduction with permission of copyright holder

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Library and Archives Canada

Reproduction access:

avec la permission écrite du propriétaire des droits d'auteur : aucune restriction de la part du donateur

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