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[Vancouver and Victoria Street and Harbour Scenes 1907]

Item number (ISN):

230348

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1907-05

Item number (ISN):

230348

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

AUSTRALIA. NATIONAL FILM & SOUND ARCHIVE

Accession:

1994-0215

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1907-05

Release date:

1907

Production company:

Selig Polyscope Company ?

Production credit:

director/photography, William H. Harbeck ?

Distributor name:

Hale's Tours and Scenes of the World Print Source

Description:

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A Panorama or Panoramic rather than a documentary, a very popular attraction in Nickelodeons in the early days of film exhibition, in which scenes were filmed from the front of a moving vehicle, often a railway train.~The film comprises street scenes filmed from the front of moving street cars and harbour scenes filmed from moving water craft. It is in three distinct parts: the streets of Victoria, Victoria Harbour, and the streets of Vancouver.~Streets travelled in Victoria include Douglas Street, Yates Street, and Government Street. Seen are the Empress Hotel, where construction is nearing completion, the Parliament Buildings, the CPR piers and sheds, and Laurel Point. A few automobiles, numerous bicycles, horse-drawn vehicles, and other streetcars are in evidence.~Seen from the water are Victoria's inner harbour with the ships of the sealing fleet tied side by side, the Point Ellice Bridge, The Gorge, and the Tillicum Bridge over the "Reversing Falls" with a prominent view of a rock which has since been blasted away, Selkirk Water and Halkett Island (also known as Island of the Dead), the Johnson Street Bridge with a steam hauled passenger train of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway crossing it, the factories of the British America Paint Company and the B.C. Soap Works at Laurel Point, the Pendray House, CPR ferries, and more views of the Parliament Buildings, the Empress Hotel, and the Customs House.~Among the streets travelled in Vancouver are Granville Street, with a glimpse of the old CPR station, West Hastings Street, Carrall Street, West Cordova Street, Canbie Street, Robson Street, and Davie Street. <12mn>

Language:

Silent

Original number:

MCK 0862~OBW000561~OBX000871

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1. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' master print calculated at 16 fps.~2. The Selig Polyscope Company had a separate section in its catalogue where it listed films made expressly for presentation by Hale's Tours and Scenes of the World franchise holders. The catalogue referred to them as Hales' Tours Cars of the World.~3. William H. Harbeck was born in September 1863 in Toledo, Ohio and died with the loss of the Titanic, April 15, 1912. Further information on Harbeck is available in the Collection File.~4. Harbeck is here named as the possible photographer because the Victoria Daily Colonist of May 5, 1907 stated that he was in Victoria representing the "Hale's Tourist Association of Portland, Oregon" and he is known to have been in the employ of the Selig Polyscope Company at that time.~5. Silent without intertitles.
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Conditions of access:

open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9512-0005

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

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

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