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Hear and Now

Item number (ISN):

225229

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

225229

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: VISUAL RESOURCES LIBRARY

Accession:

1994-0212

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1956/1959 ?

Production company:

United Press Movietone News

Description:

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Documentary about the development of radio to the 1950s and the role radio has played in peoples lives.~It shows: radio announcers in booths; radio on desk; congested traffice on city streets; radio helicopter observing traffic conditions to warn drivers; car radio; traffic; men seated in booth at radio station; people listening to radio including a child playing with a rocket and wearing an astronaut's helmet; family welcoming mother home who then starts cleaning up mess of toys little boy left; woman standing in kitchen listening to radio and taking note of food specials; man and son driving in Chevrolet; man milking cows; letters being sorted; barber and man listening to radio; family on beach; youth walking down a street listening to a radio; isolated farmhouse; man in Chevrolet drive son home at night; woman tucks son into bed; British children being sheltered from WWII in USA talking on the radio in an NBC linkup with their parents; Japanese signing surrender at end of WWII; UN building in New York City; UN Security Council; radio transmission towers; police breaking up riot with batons; US Congress Building; President Harry Truman seated in radio news conference; radio reporters running to telephone booths to file reports; people at radio station; man reading news in booth; transmission tower; President Dwight Eisenhower in news conference; Harold Phelps, President of National Association of Radio Broadcasters; woman preparing supper while listening to radio; large radar station; early rockets firing; hand changing stations on radio; swirling dust and blowing fields as tornado hits; people preparing storefronts to withstand tornado; radio; funnel of tornado approaching; radio reporter giving live report on tornado from his car; buildings destroyed by approaching tornados; KNAB radio reporter giving live mobile report; lightning; heaving rains pouring down hillsides; floodwaters pouring into towns in California and Oregon; radio helicopter overhead; and aerial views of rail lines damaged in flood.~Documentary continues with: KNAB radio mobile reporter at scene of fire with busy firemen interviewing fire chief; mobile radio reporter in action; sign for Missing Persons Bureau; man reading radio announcement on missing person; wrecking ball demolishing building in slum clearance project; new apartment buildings; people sailing on Potomac River in Washington, DC; cars on highway; students in classroom; woman listening to radio in kitchen; young boy waking up to clock radio; woman making toast as she listens to news on radio; man shaving; family listening to weather report on radio as they eat breakfast; man and son heading out for day's activities; Harold Phelps speaking about the role radio plays in people's lives; men working in old radio stations; subway speeding past; people walking on streets in American city in the 1930s; horse pulling plow through field; radio transmission tower; man listening to crystal-set radio; Warren Harding when elected president in 1920; James Cox, who lost to Harding; scenes from floor of 1924 leadership convention; ticker-tape parade for President Herbert Hoover in 1928; Hoover speaking into microphone; people sitting in livingroom listening to radio; inauguration of President Franklin Roosevelt in January 1933; clip of Roosevelt saying, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"; people sleeping on lawn; lines of unemployed men during Depression; man washing his face in public fountain; people at small carnival; clip of Roosevelt saying fear is vanishing; people listening to Roosevelt's FIRESIDE CHAT; Edward VIII seated for abdication speech; Edward VIII walking with Wallis Simpson with voiceover of him giving abdication speech; and Herb Morrison describing Zeppelin Hindenburg burning in air at Lakehurst, New Jersey.~Documentary concludes with: Japanese jets approaching Pearl Harbor in December 1941; explosions and fires at Pearl Harbor; clip of Roosevelt calling the attack "a date that will live in infamy"; American troops advancing along streets in the Second World War; and American tanks and artillery fire during World War II. <17mn 44s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Description based on information provided by CBC TV News Library.~2. Voice out of sync from police breaking up riot to buildings being destroyed by tornado.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

243151

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9410-0052

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.5%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1181078

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2024-05-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

145:00

Made from:

8614-1951
8614-1952
9111-0074
9111-0075
9111-0079
9111-0080
9410-0052
8221-5565
8221-5566
8221-5575
8221-5576
8221-5577
2008-02-0119
2008-02-0120
2008-02-0123
9605-0047
7706-0633/2
8311-0094
8311-0095
8311-0096

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1182015

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

9410-0052-DPX

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

17:44

Made from:

9410-0052

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1182016

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9410-0052.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

17:44

Made from:

9410-0052

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1185058

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

225229.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

18:05

Made from:

9410-0052-DPX
9410-0052.WAV

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1185060

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

225229.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

18:05

Made from:

225229.MOV

Status:

REF
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2024-05-0005

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

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Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

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With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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