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A Money Making Industry

Item number (ISN):

99348

Series title:

Seeing Canada. Industrial Canada

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1920

Item number (ISN):

99348

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Original title:

A Money Making Industry

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1920

Production company:

Exhibits and Publicity Bureau, Department of Trade and Commerce

Production credit:

director, Ben Norrish

Description:

This short film takes a look at the making of coins and currency at the Royal Candian Mint in Ottawa. All aspects of coin making are covered. Part I covers the melting of gold and silver bullion in oil burning furnaces, the forming of bars and their cooling, stripping the bars in rollers, to cutting and weighing blank coins, and readying the hardened annealed blanks for stamping. Part II shows the machine shops where dies are made. The die of a 1920 King George V penny is shown being stamped with a forty ton friction drive. Footage of coins being stamped, weighed, tested for colour, and rung for flaws. The Trial of the Pyx, a tradition dating to the Middle Ages, is covered in detail. This is a yearly event in which the coinage of the realm is publicly tried by a jury of experts to test the standard of weight and quality. <9mn 59s>

Subjects:

CANADA~COINS~ROYAL CANADIAN MINT

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Production information from William Galloway's notes.~2. Another film about the Royal Canadian Mint entitled MAKING MONEY was made around 1927 - Galloway note.~3. The Exhibits and Publicity Bureau, Department of Trade and Commerce, became the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau 1 April 1923.~4. CGMPB 1930 Catalogue No. 36.~5. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.~6. This is one of the last films directed by Ben Norrish before he left the Exhibits and Publicity Bureau.~7. William Galloway's notes attribute this film to the INDUSTRIAL CANADA series.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

86709

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

13-0305

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

430009

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2006-09-0005

Number of items:

1

Duration:

97:45

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

456299

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2106
GC-2107

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

456300

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2106/A
GC-2107/A

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

456301

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2008-07-0025

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

8101-0322
GC-2106
GC-2107

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

458872

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2008-10-0003

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

2008-07-0025

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

461141

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2008-12-0060

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

2008-07-0025

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

967260

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2106/B

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

967267

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2106/C
GC-2107/C

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

980908

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2006-09-0021

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

13-0305
V2 9401-0159
V2 9403-0015

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2006-09-0005

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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