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Heap Busy Indians

Item number (ISN):

218956

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1922

Item number (ISN):

218956

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES

Accession:

1983-0336

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1922

Production company:

Associated Screen News Ltd.

Production credit:

director, B.E. Norrish; photography, E. Ross White; editing, Terry Ramsaye

Description:

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In Gleichen Alberta, Blackfoot Territory the usual activities of farming are set aside for staging and performing traditional ceremonial activities, for tourists. Blackfoot harvesting hay, Blackfoot in traditional ceremonial dress, the chief in his black silk hat and earrings, Blackfoot, RCMP and Indian agents greet a dignitary, the dignitary is made an honorary chieftain, gathering of the tribe for a ceremony, quails feeding on the prairie grass, group shot of the tribesmen, drummers and dancers. Entourage shown on horseback. Long shot of the camp.The intertitles include: "The Indian of Song and Story is Hardly Ever Mentioned in the Toils of Haying Time Down on the Old Homestead"; "Theatrical Managers, Undertakers and Indian Chiefs are All Especially Fond of Silk Hats"; "When Some English Laird or Rare Exotic Guest Arrives the Canadian Blackfeet are Called out in the Ancient Finery to Supply the Local Color and General Excitement"; "Some Burgs Hand Out Honorary College Degrees, Some Present Keys to the City and a Card to Elks Club -- And At Gleichen, Alberta, They Hand You a Beaded Shirt and Call You 'Chief'"; "The Chieftainship Carries Only Common Stock in the Tribe With No Voting Power and No Dividends -- You Get the Feathers"; "Once a Year the Blackfeet Call a Sun Dance -- Which is Something Between a Cabaret and an 'Old Home Week'"; and "The 'Chicken Dance' is a Great Modern Favorite With All Nations, But the Blackfeet Invented Theirs Long Ago". <7mn 48s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

NF3-9

Notes:

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1. Credits at head.~2. Assuming Norrish, who died in August 1961, to be the creator, this material comes out of copyright 50 years after his death.~3. This film also contains the following instructions to projectionist: "Massachusetts Department of Public Safety. For use only with incandescent lamp of not more than 600 watts".

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Vault ISN:

32514

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8411-0091

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

224581

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8312-0052

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.3%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

363059

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2001-09-0006

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

977131

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2001-09-0020

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

2001-06-0171
2001-06-0172
8221-7931
9308-0342
9909-0145
8505-0744
8505-0744
8505-0720
8505-0722
8505-0741
8505-0829
8505-0746

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8411-0091
V1 2001-09-0006

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 2012.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Astral Media.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions : with credit to Peter and Catherine Whyte Foundation

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