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Prosperity

Item number (ISN):

302953

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1919

Item number (ISN):

302953

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: NON CBC PRODUCTIONS

Accession:

1999-0036

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1919

Release date:

1919 ?

Production company:

Pathescope of Canada Limited ?

Sponsor:

Dominion Publicity Committee

Description:

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Two-reel film presented by the Dominion Publicity Committee to encourage Canadians to contribute to the 1919 Victory Loan. The first reel begins with a dramatization of a conversation between two men in an office, about why another Victory Loan is needed now that the war is over. They discuss, as indicated in the intertitles, the need for the Canadian government to raise funds to meet financial obligations such as the expense of demobilizing the troops, rehabilitation of injured soldiers and the re-establishment of veterans in civilian life, and to provide "national working capital". Funds raised by the Victory Loan will be used to help Canada "maintain her newly-won export trade", one means of which is to give credit to Great Britain and other allies and credit to purchase for cash the products of every province. At the mention of these various products, the film cuts to scenes of various resource industries: the British Columbia salmon fishery (fishing boat shown); ship-building (logging operations and ship shown); Alberta beef (beef cattle shown); and the grain crop in Saskatchewan and Manitoba (grain harvesting with various kinds of machinery and visuals of grain elevators shown). Part two continues with more scenes of large grain silos at a port and large ships being loaded with the grain. The film then gives information about helping Canadian war veterans. An intertitle states that 90,000 people are getting a pension in Canada. The work in aid of veterans is illustrated by: a hospital ward with rows of bedridden Canadian soldiers; vocational retraining for soldiers, including a soldier weaving a wicker birdcage; soldiers in a classroom at a vocational training school in Ontario; other classroom scenes showing soldiers learning how to build and operate various kinds of equipment and to build a structure; loans for veterans who want to farm (illustrated by farm machinery at work and farm buildings).~Other uses for the Victory Loan funds are: loans to provinces and municipalities for moderately-priced housing (shows a row of houses being built, possibly in Toronto); credits for potential buyers of Quebec dairy products (shows men making dairy products); support for the mining, coal and steel industry in Nova Scotia (shows mines, mills, a steam shovel and rolling steel rails for reconstruction); the reconstruction of buildings destroyed in the 1917 Halifax Explosion; encouragement of exports from the Prince Edward Island fishery (shows a ship with a net full of fish and a group of people at dockside cleaning fish); and the upkeep of the Canadian mercantile marine fleet in order to carry Canadian products overseas (shot of launch of a ship). An intertitle exhorts Canadians to make the Victory Loan of 1919 the crowning success of Canada's war effort. The film uses an animated map of Canada to illustrate how the money will be distributed. A money bag is situated on each province and then moves to Ottawa, where it disappears. The two men shown at the start of the film are shown discussing where the money will be spent, emphasizing that "every dollar is spent in Canada". Next is a shot of a Victory Loan document. Then the animated map shows the money bags reappearing at the spot marked Ottawa and moving back to the provinces. The film concludes with artwork showing a flag and the Prince of Wales, accompanied by the intertitle "Let's win the Prince of Wales flag", a reward for the most Victory Loan money raised.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. For reel 2, see also IDC ISN 157604.~2. Film bears Pathescope logo at head and tail, the splices suggesting that this could have been added later and hence not necessarily reliable indicator of production company.~3. Misattributed to Filmcraft on the PDC card for the version at IDC ISN 157604.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

337968

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9909-0289
9909-0290

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.8%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

339045

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9910-0028

Number of items:

1

Duration:

90:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

437310

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2007-04-0101

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

9909-0289
9909-0290

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

442640

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2007-09-0049

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

2007-04-0101

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

451716

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2007-10-0026

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

2007-04-0101

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

578494

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2012-04-0001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

90:00

Made from:

8003-0165
8607-0106
8607-0107
2007-09-0049
8108-0160
8108-0170
8108-0603
8108-0323
9307-0038
8108-0174

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

578608

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2012-04-0001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

90:00

Made from:

V4 2012-04-0001

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

855313

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

302953-001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

10:15

Made from:

2007-04-0101

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

855314

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

302953.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

10:15

Made from:

2007-04-0101

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

855315

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

302953.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

10:15

Made from:

2007-04-0101

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

998299

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9910-0072

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8105-0361
9501-0431
9302-0006
7301-3049
7706-0109
9909-0291
9909-0289
9909-0288
9909-0290
9906-0042
9906-0043
9906-0044

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9910-0028
V1 2012-04-0001

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions

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