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Jewel Display = $3,000,000 of Gems on Display

Item number (ISN):

22674

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1949-08-26

Item number (ISN):

22674

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:

1981-0170

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1949-08-26

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

photographer, Doug Skene

Description:

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Newsreel story about a display at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto of the Hope Diamond, the Star of the East Diamond and the Dudley necklace of matched emeralds. It shows: Brinks guards and RCMP officers waiting for the DC4 aircraft carrying the gems to arrive; TCA pilot Walter Kent carrying the jewels in a bag; he is met by Mr. Ellis of the Henry Birks company; guards and the others go to customs; Kent and Ellis getting into a Brinks Express Company armoured car; close-up of one of the guards' revolvers; armoured car and another car carrying guards pull away; customs official Reg Wright opening bag containing gems as guards watch; close-up of the Dudley necklace; guards watch; Star of the East necklace; Hope Diamond lifted out of package and set on its pad; Mr. Tiffany handling the case containing the jewels; armoured car leaving Malton Airport; close-ups of the jewels; Paula Page placing the Star of the East on Nan Allen; close-up of Ena Wilson wearing the Dudley necklace; Wilson placing the Hope Diamond around the neck of Marion Gillian; Nan Allen, in close-up, wearing the Star of the East with different necklace; and close-ups of the three models wearing the famous jewels, from left to right, Marion Gillain with the Hope Diamond, Ena Wilson with the Dudley necklace and Nan Allen with the Star of the East.

Language:

Mute with English intertitles

Original number:

70-716

Notes:

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1. Subject description based on Associated Screen News Caption Sheet.~2. The caption sheet states that Paramount, Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Pathé and Fox covered this story.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

29910

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-5335

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

33131

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8302-0185

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-5335

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

33132

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8302-0186

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8302-0185

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

33134

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8302-0187

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8302-0185

Status:

REF
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