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The Noranda Enterprise = L'Entreprise Noranda

Item number (ISN):

5048

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1935

Item number (ISN):

5048

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ASSOCIATED SCREEN NEWS LTD.

Accession:

1973-0127

Media:

Film

Original title:

The Noranda Enterprise

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

1935

Production company:

Silent version
Associated Screen News Ltd.

Production credit:

scenario, John E.R. McDougall; photography, Ross Beesley; editing, A.R. Thom; sound, Maurice Metzger; narrrator, Corey Thomson

Sponsor:

Noranda Mines Ltd.

Description:

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Industrial sponsored documentary film about the Noranda Mines Limited mine in Noranda, Quebec. It shows: the Noranda mine site; town streets; houses, offices, schools, the hotel and the theatre in Noranda "where the latest talkies are shown". It also shows hockey and curling in the town. The film emphasizes the modern technology used at the mine, including special lockers that dry the miners' clothing. It shows: workers changing clothes; shower facilities; the huge smelter and other mine buildings; the miners at work in the mine; men drilling and blasting; boring holes; ore put in cars for transport in the mine; different kinds of machinery; crushing ore; bringing ore to the surface; grinding ore to powder; different ways to treat the ore to separate copper, gold and silver; automated processes; the smelter; copper anodes with traces of gold and silver still in it; the anodes being processed at the electrolytic refinery of Noranda Mines Limited subsidiary Canadian Copper Refiners in Montreal East; copper bars; gold and silver alloys cast into small anodes; the casting of molten gold and silver into bars; the placing of the bars into vaults; the rolling mill of the Canada Wire and Cable Company Limited where the copper bars are made into wire; and woman worker operating machinery to braid copper wire; cotton jacket placed over braided wire. The conclusion consists of a montage of products that use metals mined at Noranda, including silverware and coins, followed by a final shot of the Norand mine. <28mn 45s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

A-674

Notes:

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1. The sound consists of music to accompany the visuals and English intertitles, but the opening credits list Corey Thomson as narrator.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

242

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8506-0262
8506-0263
8506-0264
8506-0265
8506-0266

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

N-0145
N-0146
N-0147
N-0148
N-0149

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

243

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8506-0267
8506-0268
8506-0269
8506-0270
8506-0271

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

8506-0262
8506-0263
8506-0264
8506-0265
8506-0266

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

244

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8506-0272
8506-0273
8506-0274
8506-0275
8506-0276

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8506-0267
8506-0268
8506-0269
8506-0270
8506-0271

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

16724

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-0145
N-0146

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

16725

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-0147
N-0148
N-0149

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

141154

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8912-0071

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

412222

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2005-07-0012

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

980006

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2005-07-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8903-4374
8404-0017
8506-0262
8508-0263
8508-0264
8508-0265
8508-0266

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1006232

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

5048.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

28:45

Made from:

8506-0262
8506-0263
8506-0264
8506-0

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1006233

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

5048.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

28:45

Made from:

8506-0262
8506-0263
8506-0264
8506-0265
8506-0266

Status:

REF
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8912-0071
V1 2005-07-0012

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Noranda Mines Ltd.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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