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Smelter Fires

Item number (ISN):

306219

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1922 ?

Item number (ISN):

306219

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:

1922 ?

Production company:

Filmcraft Industries Ltd

Sponsor:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

This film illustrates the process by which copper and nickel is smelted, as well as some of the houses and resorts near the smelting plant at Copper Cliff. The viewer is shown Ramsay, a resort popular with many of the workers at the smelting plant. At the plant, electric trains carry the rough ore to the blast furnaces which is shown both full of fire and sparks and empty. Parts of the smelting process shown include punching tuyeres for air; pouring off and carting away the slag; tapping 'matte' from a settler; 'bodding' the trap hole; feeding a converter with flux; pouring off and testing more slag; and, casting Bessimer 'matte'. The film ends by showing some of the houses and the club house which administer to the needs of the community. The final intertitle reads: "The romance of development of basic Ontario industries is no-where more graphically told than in Provincial Government Films. Look for them". <13mn 15s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

2092~2093~333

Notes:

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1. OMPB catalogue desription: "This film is illustrative of the smelting processes at Copper Cliff near Sudbury".~2. Crown copyright over 50 years - copyright expired.~3. The Films of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau, A Preliminary Catalogue, by Mick Mitchell, prepared for the A-V Sector of the Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives, National Archives of Canada, lists a film with this title under the number 333, and not 2092 or 2093.~4. The Films of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau, A Preliminary Catalogue states that a film with this title appears in Bureau lists for 1922 and 1933 but not in between. Mick Mitchell speculates in the catalogue that this could mean that the 1933 film is an updated or revised version or that it could be an entirely new production.~5. Mick Mitchell's catalogue indicates that this title relates to a series about iron and steel. The November 1931 Catalogue Province of Ontario Motion Picture Bureau lists under numbers 2092 and 2093 a Pathescope production entitled IRON AND STEEL FROM THE ORE BED TO THE SMELTER, a 2-reel film about the iron and steel industry ont the shores of the Great Lakes.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

341463

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2092
GC-2093

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

383812

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2003-06-0269
2003-06-0270

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-2092
GC-2093

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

432370

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2006-10-0268

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

2003-06-0269
2003-06-0270

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

434072

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2006-12-0225
2006-12-0226

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

2003-06-0269
2003-06-0270

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

527590

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2010-12-0007

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

527591

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2010-12-0007

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

120:00

Made from:

7805-0101
2006-10-0268
9303-0051
CFI-1080/C
CFI 1073-C

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2010-12-0007

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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