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Record information – Brief The Highwayman
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Item number (ISN):86829Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:PELLETIER, NarcisseAccession:1987-0042Media:FilmRelease date:1938 ?Production company:Narcisse PelletierProduction credit:photo, Narcisse Pelletier; Gérard PelletierDescription:The Amateur Cinema League of Toronto plays "The Highwayman" from the poem by Alfred Noyes. The cast of characters include N. Pelletier as one of the soldiers and as cameraman with Gérard Pelletier. Amateur actors and play: a mounted officer in wig and britches (early 1800?) has a dulcinee at the village pub whom he woes late at night from under her window. The girl belongs to the enemy and their rendez-vous must be kept secret. He is denounced by a jealous rival and an army troup seize and tie the girl standing in her own bedroom with a gun attached to her left side aiming at her heart. They all wait for the return of the officer: if she would scream at him to keep away, the gun would be fired at her. When she hears the steps of the horse approaching, she herself manages to fire the gun and the shot warns her lover to remain at bay. <14mn>Language:Silent with English intertitlesOriginal number:Can 1~Can 2Notes:Detailed holdings information: -
Ordering and viewing options Conditions of access:OpenReproduction access:with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~Wayne Pelletier was to be contacted to request copyright permission for the Pelletier amateur footage.~Wayne Pelletier died 3 January 2003.~Copyright owner of the Pelletier amateur footage: Anne PelletierYou can order materials in advance to be ready for you when you visit. You will need a user card to do this.
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