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Canadian Forces Break German Lines

Item number (ISN):

20969

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1944 ?

Item number (ISN):

20969

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

Accession:

1981-0152

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1944 ?

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

photography, H.H.A. Barnett; Hugh C. McCaughey; Pritchard; Kenneth Dougan

Description:

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Newsreel footage about the Canadian forces breaking the German lines in the Scheldt Estuary. Canadian forces succeeded in capturing enemy strongholds which held up Allied use of the port of Antwerp. The footage shows: Lieutenant P.D. Isbister of Hamilton, Ontario (wearing glasses) and Captain E.F. Klugham of Kitchener, Ontario, looking toward the Dutch town of Breskens (indicated by sign posts); a Canadian regiment at the road side waiting for instructions to move into action against Canadian positions; Private J.C. MacMaster of Brooke Ville, Cape Breton Island, makes tea while shells land in the area; a signpost identifies the Dutch town of Ijzendijke which may be seen in the background; Canadian troops talking with a Dutch Red Cross nurse; signposts in the town square of Ijzendijke, liberated by the Canadians, indicating the direction of the village of Oostburg; Canadian armour rolling through the town while units of the Allied forces move on toward their objectives; a Dutch windmill on a hill standing in the midst of debris caused by the Allied and enemy shelling; at Ossendrecht in The Netherlands, Canadian engineers salvage steel from an unsued car line, to be used for building temporary bridges, place dynamite at the base of a pole and attach the detonator, set the charge off and a crane truck carries off sections of steel for building bridges; mine detector units clear enemy minefields to speed Allied progress and L/Corporal Crowe listens for reactions in the earphones as the work goes on.

Original number:

53-416

Notes:

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1. Source of subject descripton is NFB dope sheet, which states "Please credit Canadian Army Film Unit".

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

20270

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-5100

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

20271

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8207-0831

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-5100

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

20272

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8207-0832

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8207-0831

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

20273

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8207-0833

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8207-0831

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

629587

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2013-04-0001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

16:00

Made from:

2002-10-0053

Status:

MASTER
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