Collection search - [Waterway Pact] = [Signing of Seaway Agreement]
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Record information – Brief [Waterway Pact] = [Signing of Seaway Agreement]
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1941-03-21Item number (ISN):25306Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATIONAccession:1978-0203Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1941-03-21Production company:Fox Movietone NewsDescription:Newsreel footage shot in Ottawa, Ontario of the signing of the St. Lawrence River Waterway Pact by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and U.S.Ambassador to Canada, Jay Pierrepont Moffat, representative of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It shows: the Peace Tower and a a Parliament Hill streetlight covered in icicles; more shots of the Parliament Buildings; Jay Pierrepont Moffat signing; Mackenzie King signing; group shot of the signatories and officials; close-ups of the treaty; more shots of the signing; and an aerial view of part of the international section of the St. Lawrence River. The footage of the St. Lawrence shows aerial shots of snow-covered shoreline, some houses and other buildings, and parts of the waterway identified by the following intertitles: “Main channel. Dickinson’s Landing. Head of Cornwall canal [sic], from Canadian shore. Flying upstream.” and “Main channel. Dickinson’s Landing. Wagner Island from Canadian shore. Flying upstream.” <4mn 28s>Language:Silent with English intertitlesOriginal number:43-253Notes:Detailed holdings information: -
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