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NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: STOCK SHOTS

1977-0205

Film

1 of 1

1914/1917 ?

Mutual

A recruiting film that follows soldiers from enlistment to arrival in Europe for service in World War I. Opens with an appeal from the Canadian Highlanders for recruits to the 13th, 42nd and 73rd Battalions. Cuts to training camp with soldiers marching and receiving instruction. Soldiers then board the troop ships and relax, read, and smoke. Officers pose. The ship pulls away from the dock and all wave. Cuts to disembarkation, soldiers load trucks and wagons and ride away. Others are loaded onto trains. Another troopship is loaded. Australians parade on the dock with their flag. More shots of loading ships and trains with soldiers (possibly American). Cuts to a train sign that gives the box car maximum as 36-40 men or 8 horses. <12mn 32s>

Silent with English intertitles

Open

V1 8705-0088
V1 2005-12-0020

GAD 0FD579

~Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

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Copyright expired.

Original copyright owner: Mutual.~Mutual Film Corporation came into existence in 1912 with the purchase of Thanhauser Film.~Edwin Thanhouser was reinstated as President of Mutual in 1915.~Mutual closed its doors in 1918 with all assets.~Copyright may then have rested with the estate of Edwin Thanhouser. (Thanhouser died in 1956).~A useful contact for further copyright information might be the Thanhauser Company Film Preservation Inc.

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