Collection search - Twelve Letters to a Small Town

Record information – Brief

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Twelve Letters to a Small Town

Item number (ISN):

101952

Series title:

CBC Wednesday Night

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1961 ?

Item number (ISN):

101952

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

FINDLEY, Timothy

Accession:

1988-0369

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1961 ?

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

director/producer, John Reeves; script, James Reaney; music, John Beckwith; host/narrator, Bruce Morris

Cast credit:

Bruno Gerussi, Peg Dixon, Beth Lockerbie

Description:

Bruce Morris presents a new production of "Twelve Letters to a Small Town", a collage of words and music by composer John Beckwith and his poet-friend James Reaney. The letters are: "To the Avon River Above Stratford, Canada"; "Instructions: How to Make a Model of the Town"; "Orange Lillies"; "Voices and Prepositions"; "The Cloakroom at the High School"; "A House on King William Street"; "Prose for the Past"; "The Music Lesson"; "Town House and Country Mouse"; "Voices and Conjunctions"; "Shakespearean Gardens"; and "The Bicycle". <41mn>

Subjects:

CITY & TOWN LIFE~STRATFORD

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Description from inventory provided by donor and tape box lebel and auditioning.~2. Date of dubbing from original tape from John Reeves: 12 October.~3. Script of show available in the Collection File.~4. Item #1 on reference copy.~5. This program was first broadcast in July 1961.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

109334

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1988-0369/094

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

40:15

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

109335

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C06406

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

51:45

Made from:

1988-0369/094

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1134085

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

101952-1988-0369-094.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

43:58

Made from:

1988-0369/094

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 18244

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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