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British Empire Games

Item number (ISN):

325745

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1934

Item number (ISN):

325745

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

SMITH, Ken

Accession:

1978-0286

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1934

Production company:

Russell E. Coupland (Photographer)

Production credit:

photography, Russell E. Coupland

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Silent, unedited footage as follows: members of the Canadian cycling team travelling to the British Empire Games in London, England in 1934. It shows: people in a crowd; men walking on ship’s deck; woman looks through a porthole; two men goof around for the camera; man and boy play a ring toss game on deck, tossing rings toward the camera; more close-ups of people on deck; several close-ups of a cars being hoisted up onto a ship’s deck; men cycling; athletes training in a field, including lying on their backs, with legs raised and pedalling in the air; other outdoor exercises; men cycling; members of a team at a show or demonstration where there is a huge tire marked Dunlop; the tire is taller than the people; group shot of men posed with the large tire behind them, and two men holding a smaller bicycle tire; cyclists riding on a track; shot from bow of a ship as a lock opens on a waterway; lock closing; swing bridge; shore line with factories or other industrial buildings in background; various ships docked, with names such as Scottish Prince and Pacific Pioneer, London; more shots of men cycling; a man walks toward camera; a man runs behind a cyclist; three men, two of them wearing sweaters or shirts marked “Canada”, walk toward the camera; cyclists riding; men wearing blazers with a maple leaf insignia; cyclists riding on track; people on ship’s deck; a man wearing a “Canada” sweater leans against deck rail; people playing shuffleboard on ship’s deck; group shot of men and women on Canadian team; some close-ups of team members; shots of sea from deck; more scenes of people walking on deck and playing shipboard games; insert which partially reads “Home Movies Processing Bleury Street, Montreal”.

Language:

Silent
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