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Building a Modern Grain Elevator

Item number (ISN):

104826

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1923

Item number (ISN):

104826

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:

1923

Production company:

Filmcraft

Sponsor:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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Fifty-seven million bushels of grain can be stored in 33 elevators at Port Arthur and Fort William. Plans are made to increase this figure to 65 million. Footage shows concrete finished elevator. Aerial shot of Port Arthur - finished elevator, ships, docks, foundation for new elevator under construction, etc. Close up of construction work on the selected site for the elevators, steam driven construction machinery, and men rolling a large pine pile. Extreme close ups of man drilling hole to receive on the big piles to be driven into the ground, and men shaping the end of one of the piles that will be under water. Close up of a steam-driven pile-driver pushing long piles under water. Foundations for the storage bins clustered together, piles sticking out of ground. Extreme close up of men sawing the above pile ends to form a flat bed to receive the poured concrete. Close up of partially built grain storage bins and other concrete buildings. Part 2 shows a close up of carpenters at work in carpentry shop. Two men riding in a horse drawn wagon loaded with lumber in shallow part of river with the wheel half submerged. Four men on a raft loaded with lumber, men are pole-pushing raft down the river. High angle shot of men working on basins (wheat cylinders inside grain elevators). Extreme close up of ten men placing basin into position, two men wrenching nuts to secure steel foundation of grain elevator, man sweeping floor in foreground, and machine driven pulley belts (filling frame), and man measuring shaft. Strikers demonstrating at Hyde Park in the "Near West" (Lake District). Group of finished grain elevators near a lake. Extreme close up of automatic unloading of grain filled box-cars by hydraulic jacks at the entrance of the grain elevator. Ship freighter loading alongside elevator.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

9628~9629

Notes:

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1. No on-screen credits.~2. Source of production company and sponsor: "The Films of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau : A Preliminary Catalogue", page 36.~3. Crown copyright over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

90842

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8810-0009

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

357539

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-9628/F
GC-9629/E

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

RED PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

534581

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2011-07-0007

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

534587

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2011-07-0007

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

120:00

Made from:

9512-0012
8310-0325
7606-0117
9008-0026
GC-9628f
2003-04-0207
GC-9664/A
GC-2269-70
8611-0097
7301-9283
9412-207

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

535675

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-9628/A
GC-9628/B

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

561477

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-9628
GC-9629

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

567284

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2012-01-0025

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-9628/B
GC-9629/C

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

946477

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

2012-01-0025-DPX

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

10:37

Made from:

2012-01-0025

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

946478

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

104826.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

10:37

Made from:

2012-01-0025

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

946479

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

104826.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

10:37

Made from:

2012-01-0025

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

957173

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-9628/C
GC-9628/D

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

957176

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-9629/A
GC-9629/B

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

957178

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-9629/C
GC-9629/D

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8810-0009
V1 2011-07-0007

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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