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Governor General's Farewell Visit

Item number (ISN):

22351

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1946-02

Item number (ISN):

22351

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:

1946-02

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

photographer, Arnold Hague

Description:

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Newsreel story of a visit to Toronto, Ontario, by the Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada, and his wife, Princess Alice. This is their farewell as they will be leaving Canada in March. At the Toronto Training and Re-establishment Institute, for returned veterans, the Vice-Regal party sees rehabilitation training. Being especially interested in Chinese art, they visit the Royal Ontario Museum's collection. Footage shows: car arriving at the Royal Ontario Museum and the party getting out; rear shot as party enters museum; long shot as party walks through one of the rooms; entering the Chinese Room; variuos shots as Bishop W.C. White, Curator of the East Asiatic collection shows them throught the Chinese galleries; close-up of Prince Alice and Captain the Viscount Lascelles, nephew of King George VI, the Governor General's aide; car arriving at the Toronto Training Institute; the Governor General watching war veterans learn building trades; the Governor General and Princess Alice watch brick layers at work; machinists in training in the machine shop; various shots of discharged veterans learning to be machinists as part of Canada's rehabilitation program; and close-up shots of mechanics working on an automobile engine.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

57-173

Notes:

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1. Source of description is Associated Screen News Limited Caption Sheet, which indicates that this footage was sent to Fox on 7 February 1946 and that all Canadian newsreels covered the story.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

29533

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-4639

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

32140

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8106-0123

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-4639

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

32141

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8106-0124

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8106-0123

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

32142

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8106-0125

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8106-0123

Status:

MASTER
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