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The Arts and Letters Club Toronto

Item number (ISN):

225763

Series title:

[Matthews' Archives]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1935/1940 ?

Item number (ISN):

225763

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Type of material:

Moving images

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

Accession:

1986-0810

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1935/1940 ?

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Silent footage of members of the Toronto Arts and Letters club, with intertitles as follow:~The Club's First President, W.A. Langton. Footage of an old man reading from a book and a man painting a portrait.~Augustus Bridle "Dear Fellow Member". Footage of journalist and author Augusstus Bridle (1869-1952) smoking a cigar and drinking tea.~More Cigarettes and C.W. Jeffreys. Footage of the artist C.W. Jeffreys (1869-1952) lighting a cigarette and talking; the Vimy Ridge memorial unveiled in 1936; and more shots of Jeffreys talking.~One of the Veterans, G.A. Reid. Footage of painter George A. Reid (1860-1947) at work on a painting with a western theme.~The Late Robert Holmes. Footage of a man looking at stills and a close-up of an image of flowers, probably trilliums.~The Arts and Letters Club - Toronto - Architecture Literature Music Painting Science Drama.~In Dim Cathedral Light Dr. Fricker. Footage of a man conducting.~And Here is Henry Button. Footage of a man gesticulating while speaking.~And I Say There Are Two.~(Intertitled flipped). Pelham Edgar with an Appropriate Background. Footage of a man smoking a pipe and flipping through a book.~(Intertitle flipped). Reg Stewart at the Fireplace. Footage of a man playing piano.~Canadian Landscape Painters - A.H. Robson. Footage of a man flipping through a book titled "Canadian Landscape Painters". The man lights a pipe and talks.~Tom Mitchell - Only God Can Make A ... Footage of a man painting trees and a landscape.~Owen Staples. Footage of a man talking.~Mathis Turton. Footage of man playing piano.~Alfred Chapman. Footage of a man talking, the exterior of a building, and cars driving past.~"Consider the Lily" - Howard Grubb. Footage of a man talking and lighting a pipe.~Herb Moore - At the Block House. Footage of a man playing with wooden blocks.~General Information From - General Mitchell. Footage of a man talking into the camera and scenes of bunkers.~High Lights On - Norman Wilks. Footage of a man talking and laughing; a man who may be a judge talking; a violin quartet playing; three men standing, one covering his mouth, one his ears, and the other his eyes. A man wearing robes and a chain (like a mayor's chain of office) talks. Visuals of: a man talking and smoking; a train moving down the tracks; a man in a canoe; a man dressed as an Indian; tents or tee-pees; two men in white formal suits talking; a man seated in a wicker chair talks while holding a book; a man wearing pince-nez talks; exterior of buildings with the clock showing ten minutes to noon; shots of man talking; exterior of an old building, possibly a church; a man lighting a cigarette and reading from a book; a man canoeing; scenes of a lake; and a man looking around outdoors and smoking a pipe.~Scott Malcolm. Footage of a man playing a piano.~And Reginald Godden. Footage of a man.~Tin Horns and Bob Rourke. Footage of a man playing a joke horn.~Major George E. Patton - The Battle of Waterloo. Footage of a man dressed in military uniform, in a skit, joking and talking.~Wartime footage of artillery.~Preview to the Review. Footage of men shaving, a man dressed as a woman putting on make-up and singing.~Face to Face - H.E. Hitchman. Footage of a man putting on stage make-up.~Brendan Mulholland. Footage of a man putting on make-up to look like a hunchbacked character.~Men tickling another man, men posing in silly costumes to portray a frieze or tableau.~Two of the Stage Crew Pat Mitchell. Footage of a man working on stage.~And Arthur Goss. Footage of a man working backstage.~Good Afternoon Ivor Lewis and Jack McLaren. Footage of two men doing a comedy routine with hats.~Piano Monologue Tom Crawford. Footage of a man at a piano talking.~Murray Brown and Pat Mitchell. Footage of two men talking.~Taylor Statten and Emmanuel Hahn. Footage of two men.~I Can't Hear You Says Denton to Arthur Beemer. Footage of two men talking, with one pretending he can't hear the other.~How to Eat - Shearer and Brendergast. Footage of two men eating sausage links.~Peter Howarth - Service with a Smile. Footage of a man playing ping-pong.~A Busy Athlete Dick Van Valkenburg. Footage of a man playing ping-pong while drinking from a glass.~Gordon Davies and Will Ogilvie. Footage of two men playing darts.~Another Veteran Tom Greene. Footage of a man painting a portrait and a man sitting and looking at a book.~John Robins - Shows His Teeth. Footage of a man laughing while reading a book.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

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1. Listed in kinescope inventory record as Mathew's (sic) Collection.~2. The CBC Kinescope Inventory Record instructs that the CBC Arts and Sciences Department be notified of any requests for this footage, but the rights to this material are held by the estate of Chuck Matthews, who died in 1990, represented by his son Graham Matthews (see related footage in the Arts and Letters Club fonds).~3. The Arts and Letters Club requests that it be contacted for permission to use this footage.~4. The Arts and Letters Club was founded in Toronto in 1908 an association for male musicians, artists, and others participating in the arts or as patrons of the arts.~5. The club hosted poet Rupert Brooke in July 1913.~6. It had a prominent role in fostering the work of the Group of Seven, holding an exhibition of J.E.H. MacDonald's work in 1911, Tom Thomson's work in 1915, and the Group of Seven in 1920.~7. Its February 1927 exhibition of paintings by Bertram Brooker was the first exhibition of abstract art in Canada.~8. It started putting on annual springtime drama revues in 1930 and performed plays by Merrill Dennison and John Coulter.~9. Its first club house was the Assizes Building, formely the Court House, on Adelaide Street. It moved in 1920 to St. George's Hall at 14 Elm Street.~10. Among its members over the years have seen Hector Charlesworth, Bertram Brookers, and Lovat Dickson.
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V1 2000-12-0021

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GAD 0FD547

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