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[Robertson, George - Reports : incomplete]

Item number (ISN):

333364

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1946-08-27

Item number (ISN):

333364

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

ROBERTSON, George

Accession:

2002-0023

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 2

Production date:

1946-08-27

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

reporter, George Robertson

Description:

Excerpts of a number of broadcasts by George Robertson as follows: VJ night celebrations in Chinatown (city not identified), including a description of the crowd gathered on Elizabeth Street (in Toronto?) and an interview of the president of the Chinese Times; a visit to Beavertown, a colony of beavers about 20 miles north of Montreal, and an interview of Édouard Lavoie, who raises beavers there; report for NEWS ROUNDUP about the last ship to leave Montreal harbour for the year 1945 before it freezes over for the winter, including sound effects as Robertson reports from aboard the tugboat Matilda which is towing the steamship as it leaves the harbour; interview of Tommy Banks, a man who traps muskrats on the banks of the Rideau River at Chaffey's Locks, Ontario; and report by Robertson from aboard the ice breaker Ernest Lapointe about 50 miles east of Montreal on the St. Lawrence River.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Disc is labelled part 2 of 2 (may relate to ISN 333362 even though production dates differ).~2. Recorded at I.S.W.~3. Disc also labelled "High Frequency Emphasis".~4. Recorded on both sides of disc.

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Vault ISN:

375570

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2002-0023/02

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

DISC

Stock:

TRANS

Technical description:

GLASS

Duration:

30:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Restrictions on consultation:

Open for consultation.

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictons.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: CBC.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions

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