Collection search - Astronaut Kids

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Astronaut Kids

Item number (ISN):

278527

Series title:

BCTV Newshour : [excerpt]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

278527

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS / ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES RADIODIFFUSERS

Accession:

1997-0103

Media:

Video

Release date:

1995

Production company:

BCTV

Production credit:

producer, Stuart McNish

Description:

Series of news reports about "astronaut kids", children of Hong Kong and Taiwanese immigrants who leave their children alone in Vancouver while they go back to their home countries to work. Authorities estimate that there are as many as 250 such children in the Vancouver school system and worry that the parentless children are targets of crime by gangs of other young people. There are interviews of school officials, police and some of the astronaut kids, and re-enactments of confrontations between the kids and gangs. <7mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Entry in the 1996 Canadian Association of Broadcasters Gold Ribbon Awards in the television news category.~2. BCTV was owned by WIC at the time this entry was submitted.

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Vault ISN:

399626

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2004-08-0217

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

7:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

928490

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

278527.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2004-08-0217

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

928491

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

278527.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2004-08-0217

Status:

REF
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