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Operation Musk-Ox Starts at Churchill, Manitoba

Item number (ISN):

23370

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1946-02-22

Item number (ISN):

23370

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:

1980-0199

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1946-02-22

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

photography, A.W. Grayston

Description:

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Newsreel footage shot in Churchill, Manitoba about Operation Musk-Ox, a 3,100 mile research expedition over northern territory by Canadian troops, due to arrive in Edmonton May 5. Footage shows: map of route showing great loop into sub-Arctic from Churchill to Edmonton; at Yellowknife, Northwest Territory, showing the location of the advance supply base at the top of the loop, with the air strip responsible for supplying the force; various shots of handling supplies; supply plane in flight; several shots of loading supply plane; warming plane motors; crew of plane and captain; ground crew working on plane; warming plane up; close-of of officer commanding Yellowknife base, Squadron Leader Bishop of the RCAF; various shots of ground crew battening down plane in blizzard; ground crew wearing face masks in cold weather, with the temperature and 58 below Fahrenheit; Churchill; review of the force as it takes off; various shots as snowmobiles pass reviewing stand; Brigadier Morton, Officer Commanding Military District 10, takes the salute; various shots as snowmobiles pass in review and leave for north; R.B. Urquhart, manager of Hudson Bay post at Churchill, bids goodbye; longshot of square at Churchill as cannon announces start; longshot of wind and snow at Churchill airport; various shots of snowmobiles and sleds on way up north; snowmobiles crossing rough ice of Hudson Bay; men with map; snowmobile and igloo camp preparing special rations; various shots of melting snow for water and cooking; Lieutenant-Colonel Baird, Officer Commanding Musk-Ox and Major Wallace, second-in-command; aerial view of northern territory; and Lieutenant-Colonel Baird in snowmobile.

Language:

Mute with English intertitles

Original number:

57-347

Notes:

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1. Subject description is based on Associated Screen News Caption Sheet for 800 feet of film (note that the footage on the reel is shorter, so some shots described on the shotlist may not actually be on the film).~2. Title given on caption sheet is OPERATION MUSK-OX STARTS NORTH.~3. Caption sheet states that this footage was shipped on 22 February 1946 and that all Canadian newsreels reported this story.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

20785

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-4677

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

20786

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8110-0207

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-4677

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

20787

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8110-0209

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8110-0207

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

20788

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8110-0211

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8110-0207

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

144733

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9001-0025

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9001-0025

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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