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The Best of Times ... The Worst of Times

Item number (ISN):

60

Series title:

The Days Before Yesterday. Struggle for Nationhood

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1973-11-18

Item number (ISN):

60

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: CBOT TWO-INCH VIDEO INVENTORY - TAPES ON DEPOSIT

Accession:

1985-0179

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1973-11-18

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

director/scenario, Brian Nolan; producer, Cameron Graham; scenario, Peter C. Newman; photography, Wilfred Doucette; editing, Margaret Chandler; narrator, Barry Morse; interviewer, Jean Bruce; Larry Zolf; host, Bruce Hutchison

Description:

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Canada during the Great Depression of the 1930s and events during the term of Prime Minister R.B. Bennett (1930-1935) are the subjects of this television documentary. Journalist/historian Bruce Hutchison introduces archival footage of the unemployed, migrants, and dust storms in Western Canada. Footage also includes Prime Minister R.B. Bennett introducing his cabinet in 1930; an Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa in 1932; broadcasts by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission established by Bennett; and Bennett's retirement in Surrey, England. A noteworthy sketch portrays a recreated confrontation between Bennett and Arthur Evans, leader of a group of labourers from British Columbia who travelled to Ottawa by freight train in what came to be known as the "On to Ottawa Trek" to protest conditions in government work camps. Bennett's personal life, his achievements, and failure to cope with social problems during the Depression are further employed in interviews. Among the interviewees are: journalists J. Alex Hume, Charles A. Bowman, Tracy Dudington, and Sam Ross; authors James H. Gray, Hugh Garner, and Hugh MacLennan; "Montreal Star" editor George Ferguson; former cabinet ministers Walter Gordon and H.H. Stevens (Stevens was the Minister of Labour and Commerce in the Bennett cabinet); Senator David Croll; lawyer J.J. Saucier, who was secretary to R.B. Bennett; lawyer Joseph Sedgewick; A.S. McKeown; William Herridge; Bennett's neighbour, Lady Susie Jeans; J.B. Salsberg; Grace McInnis, Member of Parliament and daughter of J.S. Woodsworth, founder of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation; Canadian Communist Party member Tom McEwen; E.C. Russell, who was unemployed during the Depression; lawyer/author Frank R. Scott; and Lord Boothby. <60mn>

Subjects:

BIOGRAPHY~CANADA~CANADIAN HISTORY~DEPRESSIONS , 1929~ECONOMIC HISTORY~GREAT BRITAIN~INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS~PRIME MINISTERS~CO-OPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH FEDERATION~COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA~BENNETT, RICHARD B.~BOOTHBY, ROBERT JOHN~BOWMAN, CHARLES A.~CROLL, DAVID~EVANS, ARTHUR~FERGUSON, GEORGE~GARNER, HUGH~GORDON, WALTER~GRAY, JAMES H.~HERRIDGE, WILLIAM~HUME, ALEX J.~KING, WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE~LUDINGTON, TRACY~MACINNIS, GRACE~MCEWEN, TOM~MCKEOWN, A.S.~ROSS, SAM~RUSSELL, E.C.~SALSBERG, J.B.~SCOTT, FRANK R.~STEVENS, H.H.~WOODSWORTH, J.S.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Jenny Steele directed the overseas film portion.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

832

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V5 8507-0043

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

60:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

38571

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8611-0012

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

192135

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8305-0021

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

334452

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9906-0024

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

608688

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

60.mxf

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9906-0041

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

608689

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

60.mp4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9906-0041

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1158575

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_9906-0041.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9906-0041

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1158578

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_9906-0041.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9906-0041

Status:

REF
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8611-0012
V1 8305-0021
V1 9906-0024

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, the CBC, is required to reproduce this material.

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: CBC.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of CBC

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