Collection search - No. 36

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No. 36

Item number (ISN):

33117

Series title:

Canadian Army Newsreel

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1944

Item number (ISN):

33117

Link to related resource:

1944

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

RIGBY, J.P.

Accession:

1973-0162

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1944

Production company:

Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit

Description:

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Roman Holiday: A pipe band honours the opening of the Canada Club; men and women sit at a café; an Italian jive band plays and people dance; servicemen enter the Vatican to attend a religious ceremony; Royal 22nd Regiment parade in to have an audience with Pope Pius XII; the soldiers leave the Vatican.~Italian Front Inspection: Lieutenant General E.L.M. Burns inspects the Princess Patricia's Light Infantry troops; Burns talks to the soldiers; a band plays and the soldiers parade; the Seaforths and the Loyal Edmontons.~Canadian Cricketers at Lords: At Lords Pavilion, the All Canadian Army Team plays Lords Eleven; Corporal H. [Badmore], a Canadian originally from Barbados and experienced cricketer, pitches; spectators watch on.~Bastille Day: A French Canadian honour guard participates in a cermony in a small French town; religious ceremony; speeches.~Caen: The buildings of the Carpiquet Airfield in ruins; a former German officers' mess hall; the assault on Caen begins; a bulldozer in ruins; more ruins in the streets; French civilians return to what is left of their homes; Civil Affairs Office sign; food supplies brought into a bakery; ration line-ups; a soldier shares his rations; the Maple Leaf office sign is put up; Headquarters exterior with loudspeakers; a ceremony by the French Resistance; the flag of the Cross of Lorraine is unfurled.

Language:

English

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1. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8607-0033

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~The CAFU material is Crown copyright, expired as of 1996, and now in the public domain.

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