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Speeding Up Your Business : Toronto Post Office

Item number (ISN):

185315

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1922

Item number (ISN):

185315

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:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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Film includes footage of: postal workers unloading mail bags from a delivery van and emptying the bags into a chute; mail bags being emptied on a running belt; the running belts carrying mail, parcels, and bags to the upper level of the post office; mail bags being emptied onto a sorting table with sorters throwing parcels and letters into various chutes; an avalanche of letters coming down a chute and a man pushing mail onto a belt; great quantities of letters coming down onto a sorting table and sorters sorting same; pairs of hands turn over envelopes ready for stamping; letters being fed into automatic stacking machine; they move rapidly through stamp cancellation machines; mail sorters sort letters into pigeon holes; the sorted bundled letters are thrown into various bags, ready for the carriers; the sorted bags are thrown down a chute and are taken to small trucks; a tractor pulls the loaded trucks on the post officee delivery platform; sorters around cancellation table stamp parcels and throw them onto running belts; the primary sorting of the parcels is shown near a conveyor; the parcel go down a chute for final sorting; the parcels are thrown into bags; an electric tractor is shown pulling a train of trucks loaded with mail bags on the platform of a railroad station; a load of mail bags arrive at the post office, they are put on running belts, parcels are sorted and thrown into bags; and a postman delivers mail at a large residential house. <5mn>

Language:

Silent

Original number:

2308~2309

Notes:

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1. Tail credits refer viewers wanting more information to The Employment Bureau, Provincial Department of Labour, Toronto.~2. Produced and screened at the request of The Ontario Department of Mines.~3. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

14980

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8308-0068

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

31112

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8309-0105

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

176631

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2308
GC-2309

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

176632

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9303-0076

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

176637

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2308/A

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

RED PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

176638

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2308/B

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

176640

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7706-1153
7706-1154

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

176641

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7706-1155

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7706-1153
7706-1154

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

176642

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7709-0770

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7706-1155

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

176643

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7712-0065
7712-0066

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7706-1153
7706-1154

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

176645

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7712-0067

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

RED PRT

Made from:

7712-0065

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

353133

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2000-11-0117

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7706-1153
7706-1154

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

358251

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2001-03-0138

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

2000-11-0117

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

360351

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2001-05-0186

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

2000-11-0117

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

430846

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2006-10-0003

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

980953

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2006-10-0004

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8330-0549/201
8330-0549/100
7906-1766
8108-0847
9009-0189
7709-0770
8203-0012

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8308-0068
V1 8309-0105
V1 2006-10-0003

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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