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Veterans Learn Diamond Cutting

Item number (ISN):

45227

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1946-02

Item number (ISN):

45227

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

Accession:

1980-0199

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1946-02

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

director, Alex Myers; photographer, Ernest Wilson

Description:

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Newsreel report on 15 Second World War veterans learning the trade of diamond cutter, in a Toronto factory, under arrangement with the Department of Veterans' Affairs. The Toronto plant produced industrial diamonds during the Second World War and has now converted to peacetime production of diamonds. The student workers are paid while they are trained. The plant was started with trained diamond cutters who fled from the Netherlands and Belgium to escape the Nazis. They are now teaching their craftsmanship to the new Canadian workers. The plant also employs several Canadian veterans who had worked with them before their military service. The footage shows:: close-up of several diamonds in the rough; medium shot of woman marking diamond for sawing; close-up of same shot; medium shot of women cementing diamond into a handle called a Dop; close-up of same shot; longshot of battery of sawing machines in action; woman operator walks in and inspects the machines; medium shot of woman adjusting saw; close-up of diamond being sawed; extreme close-up of diamond being sawed; close-up of group of diamonds sawed in half; pan shot of workers shaping diamonds before cutting and polishing, using another diamond; close-up of same shot; pan shot of workers cutting and polishing diamonds; foremen inspect work in foreground; overhead shot of workers cutting and polishing diamonds; close-up of workers cutting and polishing diamonds; extreme close-up of same scene; pan shot left to right of the following veterans at work on diamond cutting table: Bill Webb, ex-RCAF; Jack Cohen, ex-Army; George Story, ex-RCAF; Art Lerman, ex-RCAF; Fred Cahill, ex-Army; Bert Graves, ex-Army; Paul Kay, ex-Army; Chuck Stewart, ex-RCAF, winner of the DFC; and foreman Ernie Armstrong, ex-RCAF; close-up of Jack Cohen; close-up of Bill Webb; close-up of George Story; inspection table and two men looking at diamonds through magnifying glasses; close-up of measuring angle of cut diamond; extreme close-up measuring angle of cut diamond; close-up of the name Bertha, spelled out in $10,000-worth of cut diamonds, by Bertha Armstrong, a former member of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWACs); close-up of finished diamonds sprinkled out on a cloth; extreme close-up of one finished diamond held in tweezers; medium shot of clerk, young man and young woman at jewelry counter; close-up pan of diamonds in show case; medium shot of clerk trying on diamond wedding ring; and close-up of diamond engagement ring on finger.

Language:

Silent

Original number:

57-458

Notes:

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1. Subject description is based on shotlist by the National Film Board, which identifies this as VETERANS TURN OUT SPARKLE, gives the date as February 1946 and says that this is Canadian film material submitted by the National Film Board of Canada and that this footage has been approved and passed by Canadian censors.~2. Shotlist indicates that the still photographs included in the footage are by George Hunter.

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Vault ISN:

35193

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-4668

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

37948

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0223

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-4668

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

37951

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0225

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8109-0223

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

37956

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0227

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8109-0223

Status:

MASTER
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