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The Barn Raising at Woodbridge

Item number (ISN):

418475

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1930

Item number (ISN):

418475

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:

3 of 3

Production date:

1930

Production company:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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This footage appears to be a slightly different version of the film BARN RAISING IN ONTARIO. It shows: a montage with a horse drawn wagon loaded with long, solid pine posts arriving at the construction site of a barn. Sixteen or so men unload and carry the posts to the foundation of the barn. A man hammers a steel peg into a post. Workers arrive at a farm and walk towards a long table set up outside. They take their seats and start eating. The forty-four or so men are served by the womenfolk. Workers and some women rest on the lawn after lunch. An impressive sequence shows bents (the frame of the side wall of the barn) being raised by a large crowd of men. Some men are lifted with the bents. Sides are raised by large pole pushed by the men on the ground. Another group of men pull the frame by ropes from outside of the barn. One man is shown being raised with the frame. The long poles are placed in new positions for better leverage. With one side of the barn up and in position, the second bent is raised in the same manner. Women watch in the foreground. The ladder that will lead to the grain loft is shown already mounted to the second bent. Girts (beams that are joined to the bents) are shown being raised. Men fit the girts to the bents. One man almost falls from the top. In raising the main centre bent more girts are hoisted and joined. A crowd in the foreground watches the men standing on scaffolding over the cement foundation of the barn. People scurry about in the foreground as more bents are raised. A "sky" crew joins the top posts. Men work on the lower beams. The seventh bent is shown being raised. The whole structure is seen as the eighth and final bent is moved into place. The last bent is secured to the structure with horizontal beams. Shots of roof construction and activity at the lower section of the barn is shown. Men sit down at long tables on the lawn for a meal prepared by the women. <15mn>

Language:

Silent

Original number:

9719~9720~9721

Notes:

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1. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.~2. The credit line, Province of Ontario Pictures, was a naming protocol invented by George Patton of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau.~3. This contains the same footage as BARN RAISING IN ONTARIO, but it is cut slightly differently.~4. The Films of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau -- A Preliminary Catalogue does not list a film called BARN RAISING IN ONTARIO but it does mention a film entitled THE BARN RAISING AT WOODBRIDGE, numbered 9719 to 9721.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

176540

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-9719/A
GC-9720/A
GC-9720/C

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

176541

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-9719/C
GC-9721/B

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-9719/B
GC-9720/B
GC-9721/I

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

499744

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-9721/A
GC-9721/E
GC-9721/H

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

GC-9721/B
GC-9721/D
GC-9721/G

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

623043

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2013-02-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

20:56

Made from:

GC-9721/A
GC-9721/E
GC-9721/H

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

623044

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2013-02-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

20:56

Made from:

V4 2013-02-0005

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2013-02-0005

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.

Reproduction access:

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

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