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Governor General Alexander Departs from Canada

Item number (ISN):

22328

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1946-03-20

Item number (ISN):

22328

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:

1980-0199

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1946-03-20

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

photographer, Arnold Hague; Jack Hynes

Description:

Newsreel footage of His Excellency the Earl of Athlone performing his last public act as Governor General of Canada. He attends the Opening of Parliament. Later, he lays a wreath at the War Memorial in Ottawa and leaves for Washington and then a holiday in Bermuda, before going back to Britain. Footage shows: the Parliament Buildings; Guard of Honour; the Governor General and Princess Alice getting out of their car and being greeted by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; the Governor General taking the salute of the guard; Guard of Honour presenting arms; the Governor General, Prince Alice and Mackenzie King leaving Parliament after attending the opening; the Governor General and Princess Alice bidding goodbye; ceremonies at the War Memorial; Vice Regal Party shaking hands with cabinet ministers and Chiefs of Staff; the Governor General and Princess Alice leaving the War Memorial for Rockliffe Airport; ceremony at airport; plane propellers turning and plane taking off.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

57-592

Notes:

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1. Subject description is based on Associated Screen News Limited caption sheet for 626 feet of film ASN shipped to the newsreel companies on 20 March 1946. Since the actual reel is only 472 feet, the description may refer to shots not actually on the reel.~2. This event was reported in the Fox Movietone News Canadian Edition Volume 28, Number 59.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

29520

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-4651

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

0.7%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

32093

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0139

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-4651

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

32094

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0141

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8109-0139

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

32095

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8109-0143

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8109-0139

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

154647

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-6837

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

0.7%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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