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The Quality of Mercy

Item number (ISN):

19692

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1945

Item number (ISN):

19692

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ASSOCIATED SCREEN NEWS LTD.

Accession:

1973-0127

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1945

Production company:

Associated Screen News Ltd.

Production credit:

director, Jack Chisholm; scenario, Mona Gould; photography, Earl Clark; Robert J. Martin; sound, Walter Darling; music, Lucio Agostini; narration, Lamont Tilden; Reverend Canon Gilbert Oliver

Sponsor:

Canadian Red Cross Society

Description:

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The role of the Red Cross in wartime both in the theatres of war and on the home front.~It includes scenes of: soldiers being treated in hospital; Red Cross workers helping the blind; rehabilitating the injured; administrative workers at a military hospital; blood donor clinics; the wounded returning to Canada; supplies; welcoming war brides; women in the different uniforms of the Canadian Red Cross Corps; women marching; Red Cross workers eating in cafeteria; Red Cross vehicles such as ambulances and a mobile canteen; ship; Red Cross workers touring London, England; Burlington Gardens; Red Cross workers helping Canadian soldiers; Red Cross Club in England; transporting the wounded; helping hospitalized soldiers; St. Dunstan's Hospital for the Blind; Red Cross workers there, helping the blind; Red Cross ambulances driving along road overseas; and women repairing ambulances and helping wounded soldiers.~The film begins and ends with part of a prayer by the Reverend Canon Gilbert Oliver. <11mn>

Original number:

F-350

Notes:

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1. Jack Chisholm, the creator of this film, died in 1977.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

18369

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-0653

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

18370

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-6068

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ORIG

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

18371

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7704-0534

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

7704-0535
7704-0536

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

18372

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7704-0535

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

7301-6068

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

18373

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7704-0536

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7704-0537

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

18374

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

7704-0537

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

N-0653

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

153171

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9006-0012

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

989997

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9006-0016

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

7301-2568
7301-2549
7301-2552
7704-0534
7703-0194
7703-0195
7704-0520
8809-0237
7301-6543

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9006-0012

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Canadian Red Cross Society.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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