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Toronto's $54 Million Subway Plan Ready

Item number (ISN):

24700

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1946-04-24

Item number (ISN):

24700

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

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:

1946-04-24

Production company:

Canadian Edition 28#69
Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

photographer, Roy Tash

Description:

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Silent newsreel coverage of plans for a subway to be built in Toronto, Ontario. Officials have prepared plans for rerouting traffic. The 10-year construction plan calls for the work to be done in five sections. Traffic dislocation will be costly. Footage shows a plan of the Yonge Street station, where the subway will start at Union Station and end at Eglington Avenue. At the headquarters of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), a rapid transit exhibit has been set up to illustrate certain phases of operation. A man looks over diagrams. Also shown is the interior of the proposed Eglington Avenue station, a model of the College Street station on the Young Rapid Transit line, a model of a typical above-ground station, a model of the Union Station mezzanine, a close-up of a model with turnstyles and ticket wicket, an artist at work sketching an escalator and steps for Union Station, Assistant General Manager W. Tait of the Toronto Transportation System and C.E. De Leuw of Chicago, consulting engineer, looking over subway plans, close-up of blueprint, tilt to De Leuw looking at the blueprint, drafting room where many former servicemen are employed sketching plans for the new subway, Sigmund [S]erafin ,who landed a job by showing sketches made at Okinawa where he was with the United States Army, shown sketching working on the subway entrance in the Canadian Pacific building, extreme close-up of him at work, A.G. Keith, war veteran who served six years with the Royal Engineers, working on the King Street mezzanine, Don Saunders, RCAF veteran who sutdied draughtsmanship at the Ontario Rehabilitation Training School and is now one of the men working on the Rapid Transit System, and W.E.P Duncan (left), Chief Engineer for the TTC, with Howard Paterson, Engineer of Rapid Transit, checking over the right of way plan of the Yonge Street subway. This footage includes some still pictures.

Language:

Mute

Original number:

57-909

Notes:

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1. Subject description is based on Associated Screen News Limited caption sheet.~2. Production date cited, 1946-04-24, is the shipping date cited on the caption sheet.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

34034

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-4669

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

36951

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0127

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-4669

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

36952

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0130

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8109-0127

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

36953

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0133

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8109-0127

Status:

MASTER
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