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Tapping Niagara's Power Resources

Item number (ISN):

104825

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1922 ?

Item number (ISN):

104825

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1922 ?

Production company:

Filmcraft

Sponsor:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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Film about the hydroelectric power station at Niagara Falls, Ontario. It shows: aerial shots of Niagara River and Niagara Falls from an airplane; shots of Niagara Falls from land; water flowing from the power house; various shots of structures on shore and in the river belonging to the Ontario Power Company; intertitle reading "...ice water from the river above the Falls is diverted into the outer bay"; shot of power house and the ice water; intertitle reading "Passsing through iron screens the water is further clarified before entering the inner forbay"; water going through iron screens; close-up of water going through the screens; intertitle reading "Forty-ton gates control the flow through the conduits"; long shot of two men supervising operations inside the building; shot of outside, where water is flowing through the gates; close-up of rushing water; intertitle reading "the conduits, which are 19 1/4 feet in diameter, convey the water one and a quarter miles when it is dropped 175 feet through penstocks to the turbines"; shot of the turbines; intertitle reading "Thirteen thousand horse power turbine are connected to electric; generators of the same horse power"; massive turbines shown at an angle; close-up of turbines from the side; and long shot of the turbines.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

2149~2150

Notes:

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1. According to The Films of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau: A Preliminary Catalogue this film was made by at least 1922.~2. There is no GC-2150 in LAC holdings.~3. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

149403

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-1921

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

RED PRT

Made from:

7301-4392

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

149404

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-4392

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

151708

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9005-0081

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

362430

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2167

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

591185

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2149/A

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9005-0081

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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