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Volume 2

Item number (ISN):

100719

Series title:

News Thrills of 1940

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1941

Item number (ISN):

100719

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: NATIONAL NEWS LIBRARY, NEWSMAGAZINE

Accession:

1988-0331

Media:

Film

Production date:

1941

Production company:

Official Films

Description:

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This is a roundup of major news stories from 1940, with intertitles and voice-over commentary, as follows: 1) Bahamas. Duke of Windsor Takes New Post. This shows a steamer arriving in Nassau, Bahamas harbour. The new Governor of the Bahamas, the Duke of Windsor, arrives by ship with his wife, the Duches of Windsor. The garrison gives the couple a royal salute. Also shown are Government House on New Providence Island and the couple waving from a balcony. 2) England. Nation Ready for "Battle of Britain". This shows British pilots returning from air raid on Berlin. Includes actuality sound recorded at a headquarters where bombers' reports are filed, noting the time of bombing and other details. 2) F.D.R. Presides at Historic Lottery. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown at the U.S. War Department Auditorium, site of the first peacetime random draw to select draftees into the U.S. Army. A historic bowl also used in the 1917 army draft contains capsules which identify draft serial numbers. War Secretary Henry Stimson is shown blindfolded to make the selection. Roosevelt, as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Army, reads the serial number of the first draftee. 4) Mosquitoes Fast Motor Boats Are New Navy Weapons. This item shows test runs of the first of the American Motor Torpedo Boats, part of the Mosquito Fleet. The first boat, PT9, is shown in the water. The fleet's insignia, designed by Walt Disney, is shown. The boat has two gun turrets. 5) Roosevelt Wins. Elected to First Third Term in U.S. History. This item shows lines of voters waiting to vote, polling stations, ballot boxes, defeated Republican presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie and his wife, the town hall at Hyde Park, New York (the home of Roosevelt), and Roosevelt, his mother and wife in the back seat of an open car. There is actuality sound of an NBC radio announcement of Roosevelt's victory. Also shown are crowds celebrating the victory in New York City's~Times Square. Clips labelled 1932, 1936 and 1940 show Roosevelt over the years. 6) Collapse. Actual Films Show Tacoma Bridge Fall. This item shows the intact Tacoma Narrows Bridge, its concrete bending "as though it were rubber" due to the force of strong winds, a car rocking from side to side on the swaying bridge, and the bridge's eventual buckling and collapse.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Note on film can indicates this material was researched for a Newsmagazine program broadcast on CBC Television on May 8, 1955. It does not appear in the program.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

88033

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8808-0405

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.5%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1081936

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2022-07-0008

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

11:18

Made from:

22295.MP4
22835.MP4
268212.MP4
100719.MP4

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1086056

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

8808-0405-DPX

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

3:00

Made from:

8808-0405

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1086062

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

8808-0405.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

3:00

Made from:

8808-0405

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1086065

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

100719.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

3:00

Made from:

8808-0405-DPX
8808-0405.WAV

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1086070

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

100719.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

3:00

Made from:

100719.MOV

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2022-07-0008

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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