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In Canadian Fjords

Item number (ISN):

346964

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1930/1939 ?

Item number (ISN):

346964

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: NON NFB FILMS

Accession:

1982-0217

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1930/1939 ?

Production company:

Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau

Production credit:

photography, Harlan I. Smith

Country of production:

cn

Sponsor:

Canadian National Parks
National Museum of Canada

Description:

Silent documentary on the colony of Norwegian immigrants settled in the Bella Coola region of British Columbia. Views of fjords, forest-clad mountains, glaciers, waterfalls are shown along with sequences on the life-style and various activities of this immigrant community: farming, rishing and lumbering. Samples of traditional needle-work and other handiwork, as well as gala costumes from their homeland are displayed. Exceptional footage includes shots of salmon swimming upstream and a dog catching a large salmon in his mouth. Descriptive captions are included. <8mn>

Language:

Silent

Notes:

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1. Crown copyright over 50 years : copyright expired.~2. Harlan Ingersoll Smith (1872-1940) joined the Geological Survey of Canada as head of the Archaeology Division now part of the Canadian Museum of Civilization) in 1911.~3. Smith was also a pioneering ethnographic filmmaker documenting Plains, Plateau and Northwest Coast Aboriginal people. ~4. Films photographed by Harlan I. Smith which are in the LAC film collection include:~[Flood at Bella Coola] (ISN 320980).~Tsimshian Indians of Skeena River British Columbia (ISN 77858).~Shuswap Indians of British Columbia (ISN 283954).~Shuswap Indians of British Columbia (ISN 100955).~Nootka Indians of British Columbia (ISN 100976).~Coast Salish Indians of British Columbia (ISN 182473).~Bella Coola Indians of British Columbia (ISN 183081).~Kootenay Indians of British Columbia (ISN 194562).~Carrier Indians of British Columbia (ISN 284401).~Cheenama the Trailmaker: An Indian Idyll of Old Ontario (ISN 219308).~Blackfoot of Alberta (ISN 270799).~Stoney Indians of Alberta (ISN 290759).~Bella Coola Valley and Mackenzie Park (ISN 318885).~[Mackenzie Park] (ISN 327811).~In Canadian Fjords (ISN 346964).

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

174828

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8210-0046

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

385595

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8210-0025

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

0.4%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

433984

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2006-12-0004

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

598517

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8308-0602

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

598518

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8308-0603

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

981075

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2006-12-0006

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

9304-0012
9804-0014
9804-0007
9804-0008
9904-0118
7709-0906
8701-0040
8210-0038
8210-0037
8210-0023
7301-3771
2002-12-0036

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8210-0046
V1 2006-12-0004

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD579

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of responsible departments : no donor restrictions

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