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Vincent Massey : [home movies No. 2]

Item number (ISN):

9125

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1931

Item number (ISN):

9125

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MASSEY FOUNDATION, THE

Accession:

1971-0038

Media:

Film

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1931

Description:

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Scenes of the Vincent Massey home at Batterwood, near Port Hope, Ontario. Reel one shows Vincent Massey's sons Lionel and Hart walking around fountain with other people at the family home, Batterwood, Lionel in a chair, bull in yard, Lionel and hired hand putting the bull in the barn and taking it out again, several cows led out of barn and examined, and Lionel and the hired hand bringing out a bull. Reel two shows Lionel, Hart and other people swimming, Lionel, Hart and two other boys playing "Sergeant Major" with the others, Hart giving them a drill in which they march into the water, they dive into the pool, Vincent Massey diving, Lionel trying to balance on a canoe in the pool, and Mrs. Massey sunbathing. Reel three shows several bulls being shown, Vincent Massey and his sons Lionel and Hart beside a pond, hart searching in the bushes by the water, Vincent Massey adjusting camera, Lionel and Hart play-fighting and rough housing, Lionel and Hart examining a fountain near house and making a game of walking around it, children using a net to catch pond life, Vincent Massey and his son Lionel playing tennis, and a carpet hung over a wall as a backdrop for a scene they are about to perform.

Language:

Silent

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1. Film 7301-4164 was misidentified as part of this item, but it is a separate film, how described under IDC ISN 346556.~2. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8511-0009
V1 2004-04-0024

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Hart Massey

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Date modified:: 2024-06-04