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No. 45

Item number (ISN):

33155

Series title:

Canadian Army Newsreel

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1944

Item number (ISN):

33155

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MONTREAL MILITARY & MARITIME MUSEUM / MUSÉE MILITAIRE ET MARITIME DE MONTRÉAL

Accession:

1977-0220

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1944

Production company:

Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit

Description:

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Colonel J.L. Ralston Tours Battlefronts: Vincent Massey, General P.J. Montague, General Kenneth Stuart and public relations officers greet Defence Minister James L. Ralston in an English airfield; in Belgium, Ralston chats with wounded soldiers at the Canadian General Hospital; Commanding Officer Colonel [Hume] and Principal Matron Major M.M. McLaren see the General off; Ralston inspcets troops in Belgium.~The King Honours Front Line Canadians: King George is greeted by Lieutenant Guy Simonds at a Belgian airfield; ceremony on a parade square; Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery attends; General Simonds and Major General D.C. Spry, Brigadier H.P.E. [Lang], Brigadier J.A.W. [Bennett], Brigadier W.G. [Rope], Brigadier J.T. [Sprague] receive awards; Montgomery congratulates them; inspection of the guard of honour; Prince Charles, the regent of Belgium, in attendance.~Pulp Logging: High-power chain saws are used to fell huge trees on the Pacific Coast of Canada; the trees are pulled out of the forest and placed on trucks; the logs are dumped into the water and poled into place; tug boats push the log rafts to the mill; the logs move by conveyor to the mill; they are stripped and made into boards and newsprint.~Italy - Onward from Rimini: Light tanks and vehicles gather near Rimini and move across a valley; gun fire; a flooded river; a motorcycle moves through heavy mud; a tank is towed out of the mud; the ruins of a village; destroyed German guns; Italians examine German equipment left behind.~Belgium - Closing the Scheldt Pocket: Troop trucks move across the canal; citizens wave at them; destroyed enemy armoured transport abandoned in the retreat; pontoon bridge construction; smoke screens created by British Pioneer Corps; flooded areas; Typhoon plane attacks the enemy by dive bombing the area with machine guns after dropping its payload; troops advance to the Dutch frontier; crowds wave at the soldiers.

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
V1 8502-0119
V1 8010-0086

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner ~Copyright on all of the Crown material in this accession, the Canadian Army Newsreels, has expired.

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