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Trapping Muskrats in Canada

Item number (ISN):

24795

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1946-03

Item number (ISN):

24795

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

Accession:

1980-0199

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1946-03

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Description:

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Newsreel footage shot in The Pas, Manitoba about a project to conserve and rehabilitate the muskrat industry. This spring, 1,050 trappers went to the area to trap muskrat. Footage shows: aerial view of the muskrat reserve near The Pas; loading tractor train with tents, traps, kit bags, sleds and other equipment needed by the trappers; tractor strain beside railway station house; loaded train pulls out; shot of individual cars; group of trappers around a camp fire; close-up of man breaking eggs in pan; man slices bread; sleigh moves past camera; aboriginal woman and child; sleigh in water; wrecked tread; fixing wrecked tractor; longshot of the tractor train; pan shot of trappers' camp; pelts drying on bushes; Mrs. Lambert and infant; snowmobile; field supervisor gets in snowmobile to make his rounds; interior of snowmobile; supervisor and trapper talking over business; inspection; trapper making way through marsh grass; pan shot to another hunter; chief trapper Nolan approaches a muskrat house to see if any muskrats are there; Nolan sets trap in muskrat house; trapper hauls muskrat out of hole; close-up of muskrat biting hand; four dead muskrats; trapper and dog; and trapper counting catch.

Language:

Silent

Original number:

57-721

Notes:

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1. Subject description is based on National Film Board of Canada shotlist which identifies this as Canadian film material submitted by the NFB to the newsreel companies, and that it has been approved and passed by Canadian censors.~2. The shotlist describes 582 feet, but this reel is 247 feet, so some shotlist information may not match exact contents.

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Vault ISN:

34102

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-4672

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

37207

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0176

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-4672

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

37209

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0179

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8109-0176

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

37210

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0182

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8109-0176

Status:

MASTER
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