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Things You Ought to Know About Your Town

Item number (ISN):

24536

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1932

Item number (ISN):

24536

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ASSOCIATED SCREEN NEWS LTD.

Accession:

1973-0127

Media:

Film

Original title:

Kirkland Lake

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1932

Production company:

Northern Canada Film Productions of New Liskeard

Description:

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Film about the town of Kirkland Lake, Ontario, primarily boosting local business. It shows: street scenes; the theatre manager and his staff; the men of the fire department; A.G. MacDonald Men's Wear; sign for H.H. Boyd Drugs; the cars in the fleet of McCauley's Taxi; a Kiwanis Club luncheon; town politicians; Harper's Bakery; high school students gathered outside; members of the police department; the Blais Photo Service store; curling; ploughs, trucks and horsedrawn wagons of the Walter Little Transfer company driving past the camera; the students of the Central School; trucks of the McLellan Transportation Company at the train station; people standing beside the tracks as a train goes by; intertitles consisting of advertisements for various stores; clothing stores; the intertitle "for your ad on the scren write to Northern Canada Film Productions of New Liskeard"; the Ford dealership; customers in the beauty salon; the greenhouse of a local flower shop; the interior of Boyd's Drugs; employees of the water works; students of St. Jerome Shool; the dairy; staff at work at the Northern News weekly newspaper; the ovens of the Swastika Bakery; and a dry goods store.~The film concludes with shots of people walking on the street and the intertitle "it's a good town any way you look at it". Most of the footage is shot in winter. <28mn 5s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8307-0017
V1 8308-0060

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner is probably Northern Canada Film Productions of New Liskeard.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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