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Fort Churchill

Item number (ISN):

100513

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1931/1933

Item number (ISN):

100513

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

COUTTS, Winnifred

Accession:

1981-0226

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1931/1933

Description:

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A two-part film record of Fort Churchill, Manitoba and area from 1931 to 1933. Part one begins with tracking shots from The Pas to Fort Churchill in March 1931. The camera rolls, by train, past towns, hamlets, and snow-covered landscapes; over the Saskatchewan River, the Nelson River, and past Indian villages. Cree Indians meet the train at Owl River. Other footage shows an Inuit constable of the Chesterfield Inlet RCMP patrol building an igloo; views of Sloop Cave, Fort Prince of Wales, Cape Merry, and Inuit in the area; the Inuit constable with white RCMP patrolman, both wearing Inuit parkas departing by Inuit komatik sled; Inuit skiing and dancing to hkelele; men travelling by dog sled; others holding polar bear cubs; and a long sequence on the ice break-up and the construction of grain elevators and docks. Part two begins with the 1933 ice break-up and the arrival of the first ships: SS "Penniworth", SS "Nascopie", and SS "Brandon", among others. The SS "Farnsworth", SS "Warkworth", and SS "Sierentz" also make appearances. Exceptional material: the arrival of Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne on their way to Asia by float plane; the Lindberghs posing while their plane is refueled; a visit from the Minister of Railways and Canals, Dr. R.J. Manion; grain and cattle loading; 1100 cases of Johnnie Walker being unloaded; views of the old Hudsons Bay Company fort at Mosquito Point; the building of a harbour shed in 1932; pilots Buchanan and Edward Shull; and a Canadian Airways Junkers taxiing away and being repaired in a gale. <50mn>

Subjects:

CABINET MINISTERS~CANADA~CREE INDIANS~DOGSLEDDING~FORT CHURCHILL ~IGLOOS~INUIT~MANITOBA~SLED DOGS~BRANDON ~FARNSWORTH ~NASCOPIE ~ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE~SIERENTZ ~WARKWORTH ~LINDBERGH, ANNE~LINDBERGH, CHARLES~MANION, R.J.~SHULL, EDWARD

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

1930-293-DN-1~1930-293-DN-2

Notes:

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1. Title cards were typed and photographed by the cameraman.~2. Acquired from Winnifred Coutts via the NFB.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

86971

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8103-0526
8103-0527

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

86972

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8207-0044

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

86975

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8501-0021

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8207-0044
V1 8501-0021

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

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

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