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Commonwealth's Biggest Salt Mine

Item number (ISN):

21317

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1944-03

Item number (ISN):

21317

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

Accession:

1981-0152

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1944-03

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

photography, Joseph Gilson; still photography, Milton Meade

Description:

Newsreel story about the Malagash Salt Mine in Nova Scotia. It is Canada's biggest salt mine. The entire output of the mine is used for the war effort. The footage shows the mine and miners at work.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

51-505

Notes:

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1. The subject description is based on an NFB press release which calls this an official government film release and states that this Canadian film material submitted by the NFB has been approved and passed by Canadian censors.~2. The production of this newsreel item was arranged by Hamilton Wright.~3. Used in CANADIAN MOVIETONE NEWS Volume 26, No. 62.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

27263

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-5081

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

29413

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8210-0702

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-5081

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

29414

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8210-0703

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8210-0702

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

29415

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8210-0704

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8210-0702

Status:

REF
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