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[Canada's Finest]

Item number (ISN):

310312

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1932

Item number (ISN):

310312

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ROGERS, Edward S.

Accession:

2000-0029

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1932

Sponsor:

Rogers Majestic Radio Corporation ?

Description:

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Film about the work of the Rogers Majestic Radio Corporation, showing in detail manufacturing of Rogers Batteryless radios and radio components in the company's factory in Toronto, Ontario, as well as scenes inside the company's radio station, CFRB. There are shots of: the Rogers Majestic Radio Corporation factory exterior; traffic in front of the factory; company founder Edward S. Rogers at work at his desk; Vice-President J.E. Rogers and H.S. Moore, Vice-President and Treasurer; Rogers factory workers leaving the factory at the end of the work day; employees at work inside the factory; men and women at work at various points of the assembly line; the multiple coil winding machines in operation; close-ups of various processes; a man operating an electric-powered press stamping out metal parts; welding chassis bodies; cadmium-plating the chassis bodies; shots of various stages in the making of a radio receiver; workers testing each unit; woman making the Radiotone speaker; speaker cone assembly; bolting the speaker housing; speakers being tested; exterior sign advertising Rogers radio tubes; group of women making glass tubes; open flame visible in the work area; assembling tube elements; a Rogers radio cabinet; procession of trucks and cars, marked Rogers Batteryless, driving out of the factory grounds; man and woman in a living room, listening to their Rogers radio; man going into the studio of CFRB; technician at work in the CFRB control room; Luigi Romanelli conducts his orchestra during a CFRB broadcast; and shots of various musicians. <12mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Video copy of film held by the donor.~2. No indication on screen of the name of the film company responsible for making this film.~3. Presumably commissioned by the Rogers Majestic Radio Corporation.~4. The words "Canada's Finest" are the first to appear on screen, and are presumably the film's title.~5. The Rogers Majestic factory opened in July 1929.~6. Edward S. Rogers Sr. invented the first successful all-electric radio.

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Vault ISN:

347922

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2000-06-0001

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

12:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

351406

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2000-10-0033

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

750638

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

310312.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2000-06-0001

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

750639

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

310312.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2000-06-0001

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

976253

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2000-10-0065

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

7301-3695
9103-0073
7709-1630
8330-0067/202
8330-0067/201
7301-2293
8602-0147
FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1179565

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_2000-10-0065.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2000-10-0065

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1179566

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_2000-10-0065.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2000-10-0065

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2000-10-0033

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, Rogers Communications Inc., is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner is not known but is believed to be Rogers Communications Inc.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with written permission of donorCopyright owner is not known but believed to be the donor.

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