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Premiers Conference in Ottawa

Item number (ISN):

23632

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1945-02

Item number (ISN):

23632

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Type of material:

Moving images

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

Accession:

1980-0199

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1945-02

Production company:

Fox Movietone News
National Film Board of Canada

Description:

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Newsreel coverage, supplied by the National Film Board, of the federal-provincial conference held in the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, his cabinet ministers and premiers of Canada's nine provinces meeting in Ottawa. After conferring for a week, the prime minister and the provincial premiers adjourn the conference until 25 April, reporting "substantial progress". In the discussions, the federal and provincial leaders are seeking a new financial arrangment between the provinces and the federal government. Sessions are held in camera. Also up for discussion are the federal government's proposals on health insurance, unemployment, old age pensions and a plan for timing grants to aid public investment projects. The footage shows: Ontario Premier George Drew and William Lyon Mackenzie King; close-up of Drew; Drew and Minister of Justice Louis St. Laurent; C.D. Howe, Minister of Reconstruction and Saskatchewan Premier T.C. Douglas; Alberta Premier Ernest C. Manning; Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis; Britsh Columbia Premier John Hart; close-up of Hart; Prince Edward Island Premier J. Walter Jones and Manitoba Premier Stuart Gerson; T.C. Douglas; Duplessis and New Brunswick Premier J.B. McNair; Nova Scotia Premier Angus Macdonald and Drew; medium longshot of the conference participants seated; and Prime Minister Mackenzie King opening a portfolio to open the conference.

Language:

Mute with English intertitles

Original number:

57-174

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1. Subject description is based on National Film Board of Canada shotlist and proposed commmentary, headed "Official Government Film Release".~2. The release identiies this as Canadian film material submitted [to the newsreel companies] by the National Film Board of Canada and that it was approved and passed by Canadian censors.~3. Handwritten annotation on the release states that footage was used in the Canadian Edition of Fox Movietone News, Volume 28, Number 47.
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