Collection search - Olympics (Los Angeles)

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Olympics (Los Angeles)

Item number (ISN):

331681

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1932

Item number (ISN):

331681

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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:

1932

Production credit:

photography, Russell E. Coupland

Description:

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Silent, unedited footage as follows: pan shot of men and women; truck on a city; urban scene showing buildings and pedestrians; men and women on stairs leading to Canadian National locomotive number 6158; people looking at locomotive; tall building and trains; several men clown around for the camera; woman walks toward camera; runners at a track meet at an outdoor track as a crowd watches; cyclists at outdoor track, some wearing Canadian uniforms; building in background with sign on top reading Kool Motor; cyclists and other people milling about at track; men adjusting or repairing bicycles; car driving by; man taking a bicycles out of the back of a vehicle; various bystanders including a man holding a baby; men standing around; cyclist wearing a cycling club shirt; cyclists carrying another man on their shoulders; crowd, probably including cyclists and race spectators, walk toward camera; several people posing in front of a building on which a sign for “Deposit Boxes” is visible; cars lined on an outdoor track in readiness for a race and the cars taking off. <5mn>

Language:

Silent

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1. Reel 8007-0631 also contains unrelated colour footage circa 1955/1959, showing silent, unedited colour footage of the following: several men pedalling stationary bicycles faster and faster as officials and onlookers watch. There are buildings in the background. <48s>~2. The 1930s-era footage appears to contain sequences from other events, possibly training in Canada prior to the Olympics.
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