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No. 70

Item number (ISN):

33262

Series title:

Canadian Army Newsreel

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1945

Item number (ISN):

33262

Link to related resource:

1945

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:

1945

Production company:

Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit

Description:

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First Canadian Corps Moves to Western Front: Train and soldiers of an unamed group move from Italy to the western theatre; on ships at [Leghorn], Italy; 1st and 5th Division Corps ship out; life aboard the ship; unloading at Marseille, France; disembarkation and equipment is unloaded; trains full of equipment, trucks roll up roads towards Holland; Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery greets the troops.~Canadian POWs Liberated: Former POWs relax in a camp; homecoming at a United Kingdom airport; resting with tea and reading; Bill [Nimmond], war correspondent, is interviewed by a nurse about the camp conditions and the liberation.~RCAF Airmail Anniversary: Business as usual on the first anniversary of the Royal Canadian Air Force's air delivery service; mail bags are loaded onto an aircraft at a Canadian airport; plane takes off.~Fun and Games at HMCS Naden: The easy life for service people at Esquimault B.C.; women and a few men swimming; WREN photographer Hazel Smith.~North Sea and Zuider Zee Reached by Canadian Drive: The 4th Division at [Fredoitca], Germany; [Cobenburg] Airfield; prisoners and captured weapons; 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade and 15th Canadian Division meet crowds of happy Dutch in [Dieran], Zuider Zee; German prisoners of war in Apeldoorn; scenes of liberation in Harderwijk, Holland.

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 8607-0036

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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