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Lest We Forget

Item number (ISN):

115789

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1934

Item number (ISN):

115789

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADA. VETERANS AFFAIRS CANADA / AFFAIRES DES ANCIENS COMBATTANTS CANADA

Accession:

1976-0222

Media:

Film

Original title:

Lest We Forget

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1934

Release date:

1935-03-07

Production company:

Photo-Sound Corporation
Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau

Production credit:

editing/compilation, Frank C. Badgley, W.W. Murray; narrator, Rupert Caplan; production supervisor, J.M. Alexander; recording engineer, J. Booth Scott; music, Edmund Sanburn

Country of production:

cn

Sponsor:

Department of National Defence - Great War Motion Picture Committee

Distributor name:

Columbia Pictures of Canada Ltd.

Description:

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This film was the first feature length documentary film with sound to be made in Canada. The production team compiled the film throughout the world and from Canadian cameramen who followed troops through training and into combat. Simulated battle scenes are also included.~Part 1 - The story of Canadian military participation in WWI. A review is made of the major incidents that lead to declarations of war. Leading personalities are shown. Recruitment and training of soldiers takes place. Part 2 - The Battles of Mons, Ypres, the Somme, and Vimy Ridge. Part 3 - The Battle of Passchendaele. Sequences on the Royal Flying Corps in action on land and in the air. Dominion Day 1918 festivities among Canadian Armed Forces personnel at the front line near Vimy Ridge are captured on camera. End of the war celebrations and commemorations are shown. Exceptional material includes: Princess Patricia dedicating the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regiment at Lansdowne Park, August 23, 1914; the sinking of the Szent Istvan, an Austro-Hungarian battleship, where sailors look like ants heaped up on one side and then jump into the sea; new military technology; war ruins and refugees; the American entry into the war; an observation balloon going up in flames; and Canadian railway troops building tracks. Canadian troops hold an Athletic Field Day on Dominion Day 1918; Canadian troops extinguish fires at Cambrai; the Prince of Wales in military uniform surrounded by other officers; soldiers in trenches, in marching formation, cheer news of the end of the war; funeral procession of nurses watch soldiers carry the coffins of nurses killed in an air raid of a hospital in France, May 1918. Officers salute the open grave. The Canadian troupe, The Dumbells, perform before Canadian troops on Dominion Day 1918. <100mn 5s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Presented by the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League.~2. Crown copyright over 50 years - copyright expired.~3. Shot list is in the Canada. Veterans' Affairs Canada collection file under Lest We Forget Shot List.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

103481

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7512-0084
7512-0085
7512-0086

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

103483

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

13-0416
13-0417

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

100:05

Made from:

7512-0084
7512-0085
7512-0086

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD533

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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