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Defence Against Tomorrow

Item number (ISN):

9814

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1959-03-22

Item number (ISN):

9814

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:

1982-0194

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1959-03-22

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Description:

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Television public affairs program examining Canada's defence policy in the nuclear age looking at newly developed missile systems and weaponry. Journalists James Minifie, Stanley Burke, Blair Fraser, and Charles Lynch comment on the offensive capability of the Soviet Union and on Canada's defence partnership with the United States. Interviews with: General Nathan Twinning, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Soviet expert Leo [Groulio], translating from the Soviet newspaper Pravda; Philip Mosley of Columbia University; Senator Stuart Symington, Secretary of the United States Air Force; Neil McElroy, Secretary of Defence; Brigadier General T.R. Phillips, military writer; Sir John Slessor, former Marshall of the Royal Air Force; General W.S. Macklin; General Mathew Ridgeway, former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe; Thomas K. Finletter, former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force; Mark Watson, Pentagon correspondent; General Guy Simmons, Chief of Staff of the Canadian Army; Charles Drury, former Deputy Minister of Defence; Dr. O.M. Solandt, former chairman of the Defence Research Board; R.A. MacEachen, editor of the Financial Post; Donald Quarles, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defence; Adolph Burley, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; and George Randolph Pearkes, Minister of Defence. Film clips include shots of: ballistic missile launchings; North American Air Defence Headquarters; General Earl Partridge of the U.S. Air Force; RCAF Air Marshal Roy Slemon; May Day celebrations in Moscow's Red Square; Sputnik I; the Avro Arrow aircraft and assembly line; intercontinental ballistic missile launch and testing; Polaris missiles; army troops in Korea; BOMARC missile installations; John Diefenbaker attending a North Atlantic Treaty Organization conference; NATO troops in Europe; and Argus and Canadian Destroyer Escort ships.

Subjects:

ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES~AVRO ARROW ~BALLISTIC MISSILES~CANADA~DEFENCE POLICY~INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILES~INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS~MAY DAY~MILITARY POLICY~POLARIS ~SOVIET UNION~UNITED STATES~CANADA. ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY~NORTH AMERICAN AIR DEFENSE COMMAND~NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION~BURKE, STANLEY~BURLEY, ADOLPH~DIEFENBAKER, JOHN G.~DRURY, CHARLES M. "BUD"~FINLETTER, THOMAS K.~FRASER, BLAIR~LYNCH, CHARLES~MACEACHEN, R.A.~MACKLIN, W.H.S.~MCELROY, NEIL~MINIFIE, JAMES M.~MOSLEY, PHILIP~PARTRIDGE, EARL~PEARKES, GEORGE RANDOLPH~PHILLIPS, T.R.~QUARLES, DONALD~RIDGEWAY, MATHEW~SIMMONS, GUY~SLEMON, ROY~SLESSOR, JOHN~SOLANDT, O.M.~SYMINGTON, STUART~TWINNING, NATHAN~WATSON, MARK

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Listed in the kinescope inventory record under the heading Canada, which represented a way of organizing the kinescopes and not a broadcast series.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

20996

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8209-0091

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

355420

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2001-01-0047

Number of items:

1

Duration:

118:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

657684

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

9814.mxf

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2001-01-0067

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

657685

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

9814.mp4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2001-01-0067

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

976519

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2001-01-0067

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

V4 8209-0042

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

984144

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 8209-0042

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8209-0091
V1 2001-01-0047

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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