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The Idea of North

Item number (ISN):

99544

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1970-08-05

Item number (ISN):

99544

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

Accession:

1984-0367

Media:

Video

Original title:

The Idea of North

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1970-08-05

Production company:

visuals added to original radio program by Glenn Gould
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
National Educational Television (United States)

Production credit:

director/producer, Judith Pearlman; associate producer/script/sound, Glenn Gould; photography, Robert Hutt; editing, David Knight; sound editing, Lorne Tulk; narrator, Wally McLean; James Lotz; R.A.J. Phillips; Marianne Schroeder; Frank Vallee

Cast credit:

Geoffrey Read, Bob Burns

Description:

"The Idea of North", originally created by concert pianist Glenn Gould as a CBC radio broadcast (1968), is presented here, with added visuals, as a television documentary on Canada's North. Actors portray veteran arctic surveyor Wally McLean and a young man on a train heading north to Churchill, Manitoba, to do research. Through the windows of the train, we view blended images of slum housing, Inuit people, outdoor labourers, oil wells and bleak winter scenes. Alternating with these images is footage of Eskimo art and archival photos of gold diggers. Visuals are accompanied by the overlapping voices of McLean, the researcher, a nurse in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, an information officer and two university professors. The voices describe experiences in the North and express contrasting visions of the future, ranging from the concept of the North as "a vast, outdoor playground" to the idea that it is the battleground for man's war against nature. <30mn>

Subjects:

ARCTIC REGIONS~INUIT~NORTHERN CANADA~RADIO BROADCASTING HISTORY ~GOULD, GLENN~MCLEAN, WALLY

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Eskimo carvings from the collection of Canadian Arctic Producers.~2. An original radio program by Glenn Gould broadcast over CBC FM-AM in 1968 was the basis for this television program.~3. The telecast date of 23/01/68 on the CBC video inventory list does not accord with the broadcast date listed on the program credits.~4. Program misidentified in inventory as "Public Eye".

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Vault ISN:

319609

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8411-0140

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

896562

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

99544.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V1 8411-0140

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

896564

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

99544.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V1 8411-0140

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8411-0140

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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