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[Our First Flyers]

Item number (ISN):

414359

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1920/1925 ?

Item number (ISN):

414359

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1920/1925 ?

Production company:

Bray Productions

Production credit:

animator, Louis Glackens

Description:

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Science film using graphics to depict birds from prehistoric to modern times. It shows: extreme close-up of the Pteranodon, pronounced "Ter-anadon", a large bird with long limbs and bat-like wings, its four fingers; dissolve shot to show the skeleton of this bird; pointer pointing to long bone skull which helped the bird to balance while in flight; medium close-up of cartoon drawing of the bird standing on a rock overlooking a lake, a a large worm popping in and out of the water, the Pteranodon gliding off the rock and eating it; close-up of the Ornithomimus, an Ostrich-like lizard that walked on its hind legs, ancestor of the modern bird; shot dissolving to show this reptile with wings (it was known as the Archeopteryx after it grew wings); close-up of the Acheopteryx trying to climb a tree; close-up of this reptile trying to climb a tree, with wings sprouting from his hind legs; close-up of this reptile struggling to take off, and then flying; close-up of the reptile flying; shot dissolving to show early airplane designed by Langley; and close-up of the evolution of the bird from the gliding Pterandon to the modern winged bird, all in dissolve shots.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. The November 1931 catalogue of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau calls this OUR FIRST FLYERS, BY GLACKENS (this is probably animator Louis Glackens).~2. Louis Glackens, the creator of this film, died in 1933.

Technique:

ANIMATION

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

499990

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-3136

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

850113

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-3136/A

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

850122

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-3136/B
GC-3136/C

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

894689

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2018-06-0004

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-3136

Status:

PRT.ELEM
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Copyright owner:

Original copyright owner: Bray Productions.~Bray Productions was bought by Samuel Goldwyn.~Copyright may then have rested with the estate of Samuel Goldwyn or with MGM.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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