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Momentous Years with CFRB 1927-1957

Item number (ISN):

433243

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

433243

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ST. LAURENT, Louis Stephen

Accession:

1974-0131

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1957-01-29

Production company:

CFRB

Production credit:

script/producer, Ron McAllister

Description:

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Documentary narrated by Jack Dennett, Bill Baker, Jack Dawson, Lloyd Moore, Eddie Luther, Gordon Cook, Frank Grant, and Wally Crouter, all of CFRB, about radio, and CFRB's history. Subjects, speakers and clips include: Dennett speaking about the birth of radio station CFRB; engineer Jack Sharpe on a radio test; Bill Baker; Wes McKnight speaking about hockey player Newsy Lalonde; sports commentator Foster Hewitt; King George V's Christmas greeting of 25 December 1932; Franklin D. Roosevelt on his inauguration day, 4 March 1933; Adolf Hitler, speaking in Berlin in German, in 1936; Jack Dawson; Jim Hunter, CFRB newcaster, reporting about the Moose River Mine disaster; Lloyd Moore; Harry Sedgwick, CFRB's managing director, speaking about Edward S. Roger at the time of his death in 1939; Rex Frost; King George VI on tour of Canada, 15 June 1939 and Halifax message; William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada, making a statement about total war, on 18 February 1941; Winston Churchill's speech in Ottawa on 30 December 1941 in which he refers to "some chicken, some neck"; Sir William Mulock, head of the University of Toronto; CFRB news analyst John Collingwood Reade speaking about World War II; [Lloyd] Owens; General Bernard Montgomery on 6 June 1944; General H.D.G. Crerar's VE Day message, 8 May 1945; Eddie Luther; Hermann Goering, speaking in German at Nuremburg, November 1945; American boxer Jack Dempsey on 6 December 1945; Bikini bomb test, 30 June 1946; Princess Elizabeth's wedding, 20 November 1947; CFRB reporter Claire Wallace on Princess Elizabeth's wedding, 1947; Gordon Cook; Wes McKnight on the Grey Cup in 1947; Babe Ruth about how to play baseball; broadcaster Kate Aitken; Frrank Grant; John Collingwood Reade commenting on reporter Jim Hunter's death; Princess Elizabeth's speech following her trip to Canada in in 1951; Rex Frost, Ed Lalonde, athlete Jim Thorpe, Wally Crouter; swimmer Marilyn Bell, and Bell's trainer Gus Ryder on sports; food columnist Ann Adam; CFRB news announcer Gordon Sinclair; CFRB's musical director Wishart Campbell; 1956 golf champion Marlene Stewart; Louis St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada, November 1956; Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas message on 25 December 1956; <40mn 10s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded by radio station CFRB, Toronto.~2. Re-recorded by RCA Victor.~3. On disc 1974-0131/64, sides 1 and 2, copied onto PAC tape 462, track 1.~4. See also copy in Ross, Court & Co. collection, disc 1971-0005/1.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

609562

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C00462

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

720650

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1974-0131/64

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

DISC

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Open

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MSS 26399

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