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Audio-visual and graphic material from Air Canada [multiple media]
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Record information Audio-visual and graphic material from Air Canada [multiple media]
Date:1930-1980.Reference:R1202-68-4-EType of material:Moving images, Sound recordings, Textual material, PhotographsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:3951521Date(s):1930-1980.Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:ca. 300 films reels (ca. 185 h)
ca. 100 audio reels (ca. 145 h)
ca. 50 audio discs (ca. 6 h)
ca. 40 audio cassettes (ca. 40 h)
2.5 cm of textual records.
481 photographsLanguage of material:EnglishAdded language of material:English, FrenchScope and content:Series consists of audio-visual and graphic material created and/or collected by Air Canada.
Moving images consist of: records of the growth and progress of Air Canada various aspects of airline operation; films showing aspects of operations of Air Congo taken during an Air Canada survey of that airline; historical films concerning various aircraft, inaugural flights, and airports; Air Canada training films relating to job performance; the Silver Broom world curling championships in several international locations; cross-Canada flights in Lockheed aircraft; the history of aviation from its inception to the jet era; and other various aviation-related films.
Some film highlights are as follows:
All for Canada : A Story of the TCA in the War
Twenty Fifth Anniversary of T.C. A
Air Canada at Expo
Miami - Toronto / Montreal Inaugural Flight
Moscow Inaugural Flight
Hudson Bay Route
Quebec City, New York - Inaugural Flight
[Arrival of the First Viscount]
Opening New Air Terminal in Dorval
Stewardess Training
TCA Hostess Training : Trims
North Star Era
First Turboprop Airliner Starts Service in Canada
Debut of DC-8-63 at Douglas Aircraft Company
Mr. Barnaby Sleeps in the Sky = [The T.C.A. Pilot]
Royal Flight 857 = Queen Mother Flight to Canada
TCA in the Maritimes 1941
TCA Reservations Behind the Scenes - Before 1962
TCA Super Constellation Take-Off (Summer)
Air Congo
Sound recordings consist of: sound documentaries and speeches about the history of the corporation and aviation in Canada; a disc entitled Airs Canada featuring ten Canadian folk songs by The Travellers; a disc entitled Les 14 Soleils (Chansons thème) by Dominique Michel; and a disc entitled Things (Almost) Everybody Knows About Your Business by Gerry Gray, TCA sales manager; speeches by Air Canada officals to the Canadian Aviation Historical Society; and a radio program entitled Powered Flight.
Oral history interview recordings can be found in the sub-series of this series entitled Air Canada: Oral History Interviews. Transcripts are available for interviews with Walter W. Fowler and T.W. Kirkham.
Photographic records consist of: photographs of Air Canada and Trans-Canada Air Lines personnel, aircrafts, maintenance operations and terminals, and photographs of the first president of Air Canada, G.R. McGregor. See linked photo accessions for more information.Provenance:Source:GovernmentOther accession no.:1985-0188 MISA
1980-0169 MISA
1984-0514 MISA
1978-0238 MISA
1981-0039 MISA
1981-0073 MISA
1981-0107 MISA
1980-0086 MISA
1980-0108 MISA
1980-0112 MISA
1980-0131 MISA
1979-0173 MISA
1978-0107 MISA
1977-0028 MISA
1975-0102 MISA
1974-0028 MISA
1974-0108 MISA
1973-0093 MISA
1981-0232 MISA
1980-0271 MISA
1980-0272 MISA
1975-0268 MISA
1973-0126 MISA
1974-0210 MISA -
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