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Wessex

Item number (ISN):

278012

Series title:

Along the Highways and Byways of England

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1930/1931

Item number (ISN):

278012

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1930/1931

Production company:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Production credit:

photography, Bert Bach

Description:

In this film, the viewer is shown some of the points of interest in Wessex as the OMPB car tours the region. One of the four divisions of early Saxon England (along with Essex, Kent, and Sussex), Wessex is made up of peaceful villages such as Dorset, Wiltshire and Devon. Salisbury Cathedral was built on the site where the arrow of the evicted monks had fallen in 1219, and remains "the finests spire in England." The next stop is Wilton, where Alfred the Great once defeated the Danes; then on to Stonehenge whose history is shrouded in innumerable legends. The viewer is shown troops performing manoevers on Salisbury Plain which remains in the Canadian contingent's memory, as does "The Old Bustard", Bustard Hotel. The tour continues through Somerset, by the river Exe, to Devon and the Exeter Cathedral founded in the 10th century. The film ends as the car passes between deep Cornish hedges and English wildflowers. <10mn 29s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

7025~7026

Notes:

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1. This film belongs to a series of at least six completed works, filmed in England in the summer of 1930.~2. 1931 Catalogue description: "Dorset, Wiltshire, Devon, Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge, Exeter Cathedral."~3. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.

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Vault ISN:

308254

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-7025
GC-7026

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

308264

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9802-0016
9802-0017

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-7025
GC-7026

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

309962

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9804-0016
9804-0017

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

9802-0016
9802-0017

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

309963

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9804-0018
9804-0019

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

9802-0016
9802-0017

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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