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Christmas as Home

Item number (ISN):

227918

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

227918

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

Accession:

1984-0164

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1947-12

Cast credit:

John Mills, Patricia Roc, Kathleen Harrison, Jack Warner, Margaret Lockwood, Toots Lockwood, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ann Todd, Trevor Howard

Description:

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The program features dramatizations of contemporary London Christmas scenes that depict a variety of people celebrating the holiday in individual ways. It attempts to portray the English as being cheerful and competent during troubled times.~Preceded by music and the chiming of bells, the announcer reads the names of the cast and sends greetings to listeners overseas.~With choral singing in the background, John Mills introduces the program and its object, to visit some English homes at Christmas-time and to meet the people. He introduces each of the following vignettes:~In a working-class Lambeth home, the traditions of a family's Christmas celebration are threatened by the daughter's wish to make an impression on an "aristocratic" young man whom she has invited to dinner.~In the second vignette, set in a modern flat in London's west end, a mother tells her child a bedtime story on Christmas eve.~The final scene takes place in a London club in Pall Mall where two men are spending a quiet Christmas day.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. The cast are members of the J. Arthur Rank Organization.

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Vault ISN:

253026

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1984-0164/2361

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

DISC

Stock:

PLASTIC

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

962969

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

227918-1984-0164-2361.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1984-0164/2361

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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