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[Exercise Musk-Ox]

Item number (ISN):

319326

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1946-05-04 ?

Item number (ISN):

319326

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADA. DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE / MINISTÈRE DE LA DÉFENSE NATIONALE

Accession:

1975-0236

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1946-05-04 ?

Production company:

Department of National Defence

Production credit:

photographer, Lt. Col. N.A.C. Croft

Description:

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Department of National Defence film record of Exercise Musk-Ox. Intertitle: May 4th, 1946. A 3,000 mile journey from Churchill in Hudson Bay via Victoria Island, Great Bear Lake and the Alaskan Highway, to Grande Prairie in Alberta. Intertitle: Training Camp at Churchill, during winter; tractors moving snow; dog sleds heading out; burning building and residents surrounding conflagration, some shovelling snow to douse flames. Intertitle: Eskimo Point, a settlement 200 miles north of Churchill; tents and igloos; caravan of snow mobiles moving along in distance; icing of dog sled runners; exercise members dismantling tents; refueling of snow mobiles. Intertitle: Baker Lake, where an airbase and weather station are being established; parachute supplies dropped; personnel retrieving supplies; snow mobiles numbered 1 to 11?. Intertitle: Perry River, an Eskimo settlement north of the American continent. Intertitle: The RCMP Saint Roch at Cambridge Bay, Victoria Island. Intertitle: An Eskimo encampment near Coppermine. Intertitle: An air reconnaissance of the terrain between Coppermine and Port Radium, the uranium mine on the shore of Great Bear Lake. Intertitle: Coppermine, the last Eskimo settlement on the route; snow mobile stuck in the snow and ice; using motor and winch to pull out of snow and ice. Intertitle: Port Radium on Great Bear Lake to Fort Norman on the river Mackenzie (sic); herd of caribou. Intertitle: Fort Norman - an Indian settlement at the Northern end of the CANOL winter tractor trail. This trail leads southwards for 870 miles, via Fort Simpson to Fort Nelson on the Alaskan Highway; digging out another snow mobile; blasting ice. Intertitle: Fort Simpson airport - near the junction of the river Mackenzie (sic) and the river Liard; snow machines motoring through water and muskeg; floating corduroy road for crossing water and muskeg. Intertitle: Crossing the river Nelson by raft; raft made of logs and barrels to float across men and equipment. Intertitle: Fort Nelson and along the Alaskan Highway to Grande Prairie. <45mn 46s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Subject description includes inter-titles featured in film.~2. Head title is missing.~3. Edge code indicates 1946 U.K. film stock.~4. Some under-exposed and over-exposed scenes.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

350869

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7504-0054

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

615501

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2012-11-0006

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

40:44

Made from:

7504-0054

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

615881

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2012-11-0004

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

40:44

Made from:

V4 2012-11-0006

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

950710

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

7504-0054-DPX

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

34:19

Made from:

7504-0054

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

950711

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

319326.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

34:19

Made from:

7504-0054

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

950712

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

319326.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

34:19

Made from:

7504-0054

Status:

REF
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2012-11-0004

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD095

Restrictions on consultation:

open

Donor restrictions:

reproduction with written permission of copyright owner

Copyright status:

under copyright

Copyright owner:

copyright owner: Department of National Defence

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of DND

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