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Launching the Empress of Canada

Item number (ISN):

327555

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1960-05-10

Item number (ISN):

327555

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY

Accession:

1973-0149

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1960-05-10

Production company:

Edward Productions

Description:

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Footage of: crowd; pan of crowd; dignitaries going to a platform, Mrs. Olive Diefenbaker among them; Olive Diefenbaker greeting clergyman and crowd looks on in background; scenes of The Empress of Canada under construction at Newcastle on Tyne shipyard; workers on scaffolding, painting the ship; close-up of worker painting; other workers performing various tasks; and more views of the exterior of the ship under construction. Views from a train of railway tracks, a small station and a railway bridge; passengers aboard train; close-up of Olive Diefenbaker aboard the train; train passing York station; surrounding countryside with built-up regions; more views of VIP passengers aboard the train, a British Rail train as per the BR headrest covers; rural countryside shot from the train; back to close-ups of passengers; more shots of countryside; Tyne Bridge at Newcastle; ship on the river; train arriving at station; Mrs. Diefenbaker and other passengers disembarking as a crowd waits on the platform; close-up of Mrs. Diefenbaker smiling for the camera; crowd walking along platform; Mrs. Diefenbaker in back of a car as it drives away; crowds walking past camera and getting into a bus; rows of buses; tugboats in river; woman and child seated on grass; more shots of tugboats and crowds at the docks; clergyman reading from a text as Mrs. Diefenbaker and other guests stand on a platform behind him; pan shot from the ship to the clergyman and guests on the platform below; close-up of a worker adjusting something on the ship; crowd; Mrs. Diefenbaker speaking into microphone; Mrs. Diefenbaker pulling a lever, sending bottle to hit side of the ship; close-up of mechanism moving to launch ship; close up of hull moving as crowd looks on; ship sliding into the water; juxtaposition of shots of Mrs. Diefenbaker and other people officiating at the launch and the ship getting underway in the harbour; crowds watching; tugboats move into position alongside the ship; people watching from grassy hillside; view of the ship at dock, with the name Empress of Canada London. <10mn>

Language:

Silent

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1. Film 7301-8516 is Item 7 on videocassette V1 8406-0119 and another copy, numbered 7301-8518 is item 9 on the videocassette.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

16205

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8406-0119

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

20412

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8304-0015

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

360344

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-8516

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

360345

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-8518

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ORIG

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

360346

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-8596

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8406-0119
V1 8304-0015

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 18877

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of CPThe contact at CP archives for use of CP material is: Canadian Pacific Archives, P.O. Box 6042 Station Centre-Ville Montréal, QC Canada H3C 3E4, Fax (514) 395 -5132, Telephone (514) 395-5135.

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