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Gems from a Stockshot Library

Item number (ISN):

237499

Series title:

The Days Before Yesterday : [stockshots]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

237499

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: CAM GRAHAM PRODUCTIONS, THE DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY

Accession:

1995-0172

Media:

Film

Description:

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Archival footage assembled for research and/or use in the CBC television documentary series The Days Before Yesterday. Mary Pickford visits hometown, 1922. <17 feet> Winnipeg university students picket for new buildings, 1922. <12 feet> The Lieutenant-Governor crowns Queen Dora to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday, 1923. Canada celebrates its Diamond Jubilee, 1927. William Lyon Mackenzie King dedicates the Peace Tower carillon, 1927. Airmail service inaugurated to Montreal, 1928. <30 feet> Royal York Hotel opens, Toronto, 1929. People shown dancing. Jazz drummer. Winged Wheelers win Grey Cup for first time since 1907 in Montreal in 1931. Trade Pact signed: Chamberlain and R.B. Bennett at Imperial Conference, 1932. <25 feet> Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team. <8 feet> Foster Hewitt interviews Red Horner. <24 feet> Bluenose wins over Challenger, 1933. <20 feet> Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe plays Santa Claus for Dionne Quints' first birthday, 1934. <33 feet> Miracle doctor, Dr. Locke, treats hundreds of patients for $1.00 each near Morrisburg, Ontario, 1936. <18 feet> Brother André bured in crypt at St. Joseph's Oratory, Montreal, 1937. <26 feet> King George VI strolls among veterans, 1939. Paris hair stylist invents Canadian "coiffeur de guerre". Military chiefs plan global strategy at Quebec Conference, 1943. <22 feet> Mayor Camilien Houde freed after wartime internment for defying conscription, 1944. >26 feet> VE-Day celebrations in Canadian cities, 1945. Governor General Viscount Alexander arrives from England in Halifax, 1946. Barbara Ann Scott welcomed home, 1947. Shown with Mayor of Ottawa. <26 feet> A mechanical horse, 1950. <33 feet> Winnipeg flood, 1950. <65 feet> Toronto Mayor Allan Lamport defeats Ottawa Mayor Charlotte Whitton in tractor pull at Carp, Ontario, 1952. <32 feet> Ottawa Baby Contest, 1952. <14 feet>

Language:

Silent

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1. Description from can labels and shotlist prepared by CBC and screening.~2. According to the shotlist, the source of the footage is the National Film Archive.~3. Footage poor quality except for Charlotte Whitton footage.~4. Stories about Queen Dora, Diamond Jubilee, carillon, King George VI and war veterans, hairstyles and VE day celebrations not in version in can 15437.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2018-08-0009

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~Copyright varies since the footage comes from a number of sources.~Terms of copyright owners' original agreements with donor uncertain.~Material which Cam Graham obtained from the Imperial War Museum, London, requires the written permission of IWM for reproduction.

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