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Careers and Cradles

Item number (ISN):

159125

Series title:

Canada Carries On

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

159125

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: 1982-1985

Accession:

1984-0377

Media:

Film

Release date:

1947

Production company:

National Film Board

Production credit:

director/scenario/editing, Jack Olsen; producer, Sydney Newman; photography, Denis Gillson

Description:

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Since the turn of the century, Canadian women have achieved a revolutionary change in status. The film notes the significance of the change, introducing women who command respect as leaders in government, science and the arts. In their attainments we see demonstrated those principles proclaimed by suffragettes. Women's organizations and leaders, among them Senator Cairine Wilson and Madame Thérèse Casgrain, meet the challenges of their times. The film pays tribute to Canadian women who are leaders in the society by means of brief scenes of the following women and short commentaries about them: astronomer Helen Hogg at the Dunlap Observatory; aircraft designer Elsie MacGill; [Verda Vincent], pathologist for the province of Ontario; [Amy Kelsey] of Erickson, British Columbia, whose Reward wheat was judged the finest on the continent by the Chicago international grain exposition; Ann Shipley, reeve of one of Ontario's gold mining districts; Byrne Hope Saunders, editor of a women's magazine who worked with the government in the area of price controls during the Second World War; parliamentary reporter [Evelyn Topps] of Halifax; newspaper reporters [Margaret Healey, Vera Kelly, Margaret Ecker-Francis] and [Doris Mulligan]; broadcaster Claire Wallace; novelist Gabrielle Roy; symphony orchestra conductor Ethel Stark; singer Portia White (including an excerpt of her singing); figure skater Barbara Ann Scott; flying instructor Violet Milstead; commercial photographer [Geraldine Carpenter] (who is shown photographing model [Madge Johsnton]); designer Maxine Samuels; singer Dorothy Alt; and Ray Lewis, publisher of the Canadian Moving Picture Digest and a motion picture distributor. The film concludes by commenting on how women juggle marriage and careers, assisted by household appliances and childcare facilities such as nursery schools. <10mn>

Language:

English

Original number:

106B 0147 028

Notes:

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1. This film was re-relased in 1977, with a new introduction, under the title HOW THEY SAW US: CAREERS AND CRADLES.~2. For more information see "The NFB Film Guide From 1939 to 1989".

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

151246

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8220-0552

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

279294

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9604-0047

Number of items:

1

Duration:

60:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

995558

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9604-0079

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8208-0514
8208-0164
8208-0044
8220-0552
8703-0143
7301-2584
8108-0496

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1004999

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

8220-0552.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

10:42

Made from:

8220-0552

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9604-0047

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD580

Reproduction access:

avec la permission de l'ONF, Montréal

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