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The Arts and Letters Club

Item number (ISN):

235791

Series title:

[Matthews' Archives]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1935/1940 ?

Item number (ISN):

235791

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

Accession:

1986-0810

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1935/1940 ?

Description:

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Silent footage of members of the Toronto Arts and Letters Club in several unidentified dramatic sketches. Shown is: a man standing up from a table; a man and woman folding a table cloth; a man shining shoes; a man, woman, and a younger man talk to another man wearing a hat; a man talks; men dressed as Arabs; people dressed in Victorian clothing; various people talking; and a woman dancing on stage.~Sequences introduced with intertitles are as follows:~Robb. Footage of a man playing the organ.~Sir William Mulock. Footage of Mulock examining an archival document.~Hector Charlesworth. Footage of journalist and broadcasting official Hector Charlesworth (1872-1945) greeting Mulock.~B.A. Gould. Footage of Gould playing chess.~Merrill Dennison. Footage of playwright Merrill Dennison (1893-1975) writing at a typewriter.~Boris Hambourg. Footage of musician Boris Hambourg (1884-1954) playing the cello.~Sam Maw. Footage of Sam Maw creating a print of a map.~Elie Spivak. Footage of Spivak playing the violin.~Paul. Footage of Paul playing the cello.~Richard Tattersall. Footage of Tattersall playing piano.~Elie Spivak. Footage of Spivak playing violin.~Rufus Hathaway. Footage of the club librarian and some still photos.~Exterior shots of men talking.~President C.B. Cleveland. Footage of Cleveland talking.~Ted Dinsmore. Footage of Dinsmore putting up decorations.~George Locke. Footage of Locke as he smokes and talks.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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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.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

251173

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8614-3273

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

353548

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2000-12-0021

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

251172

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8614-3272

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

976434

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2000-12-0042

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

8614-3277
8614-3273
8614-3274
8614-3275

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2000-12-0021

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

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