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The Lions' Gate Bridge

Item number (ISN):

355864

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1937/1939 ?

Item number (ISN):

355864

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

PRATLEY, H.H.L.

Accession:

2004-0104

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1937/1939 ?

Production company:

Associated Screen News ?

Sponsor:

Dominion Bridge Company Limited ?

Description:

A silent documentary film demonstrating from start to finish the construction of the Lions' Gate Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia. The technical specifications of the bridge are described in detail through intertitles. This bridge has the longest suspended span in the British Empire. The intertitles detail the dimensions of the structure and materials used for construction. Images show the bridge as a work in progress, with shots of labourers, foremen, and consulting engineers working on the job site. <74mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. No head or tail credits.~2. Shot at 16 frames per second.~3. This bridge was constructed between 1937 and 1938.~4. Anglo-Canadian Wire Rope Co. Ltd. is listed in an intertitle.~5. This footage was previously on four 400-foot reels, and the donor also had a fifth 400-foot reel with film of the manufacture of the main cable strands and suspender ropes. The donor spliced all five reels together in the correct chronological order many years before this final cut arrived at Library and Archives Canada.~6. Donor believes that the footage was probably produced by Associated Screen News, but the reel on cable manufacture was quite separate and probably undertaken on behalf of Anglo-Canadian Wire Ropes, the manufacturer involved.~7. Just who commissioned the longer film is uncertain, and it may have been Dominion Bridge Company Limited, the contractor for the steel superstructure, or possibly The First Narrows Bridge Company, the original owner.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

398525

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2004-07-0280

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

399768

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2004-08-0041

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

979345

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2004-08-0027

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8711-0118
8711-0119
7505-0826
2004-07-0280
8411-0837

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2004-08-0041

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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