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The Arctic Patrol

Item number (ISN):

225952

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1929-07-20/1929-09-03

Item number (ISN):

225952

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: STOCK SHOTS

Accession:

1994-0245

Media:

Film

Original title:

The Arctic Patrol

Part:

4 of 4

Production date:

1929-07-20/1929-09-03

Release date:

1930-01-19

Production company:

Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau

Production credit:

director/photography/editing/titles, Richard S. Finnie

Country of production:

cn

Sponsor:

North West Territories and Yukon Branch, Department of the Interior

Distributor name:

Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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A record of the 1929, Canadian Government Arctic Expedition (Eastern Arctic Patrol) ? under the leadership of George P. Mackenzie. The voyage begins with the departure of the sealer SS Beothic from North Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia on July 20 under Captain E. Falk and ends with the return to port on September 3.~Scenes include: the departure of SS Beothic from North Sydney with the crew, RCMP officers, passengers, supplies, and feeding livestock on board; the midnight sun - Baffin Bay at 3 a.m.; landing at Cape Sparbo on Devon Island to photograph muskoxen; ice floes and icebergs in Smith Sound and the ship ploughing through ice on the way to Bache Peninsula on the east coast of Ellesmere Island; unloading supplies for the Bache establishment; Mackenzie welcoming RCMP Inspector A.H. Joy aboard at Fram Haven; walrus in Robertson Bay, North Greenland; a tent dwelling and a native (Greenlandic Inuit) woman and her three children at Robertson Bay; Richard Finnie and RCMP Constables Kidston and Wishart bathing naked in Robertson Bay just south of Etah, Greenland; two young polar bears, chained together, playing in the water; thousands of Dovekies (Little Auks) at Robertson Bay; an ancient Eskimo (Inuit) stone dwelling at Pond Inlet; polar bears between Pond Inlet and Clyde River;~Pangnirtung, Baffin Island: the Hudson’s Bay Post, government medical officer Dr. L.D. Livingstone boarding; native men (Inuit) bringing supplies ashore, native (Inuit) men engaging in a tug-o-war; the first stop at Kimmirut (formerly known as Lake Harbour); passing the Hudson’s Bay Company ship Nascopie, travelling in an easterly direction, heading for Lake Harbour; an experimental fox farm at Chesterfield Inlet; National Museum ornithologist Percy A. Taverner photographing a Semipalmated Sandpiper on deck; the second stop at Kimmirut (formerly known as Lake Harbour): the Hudson’s Bay Post, Saint Paul’s Anglican Mission, the Reverend C.L.W. Bailey, native (Inuit) worshippers;~J. Dewey Soper, department investigator and discoverer of the nesting grounds of the Blue Goose, boarding; SS Aranmore and SS Sambro delivering material for the Department of Marine and Fisheries’ radio direction finding station at Acadia Cove, Resolution Island, shots of building operations, a cradle tramway on overhead wires erected to transport building material; natives (Inuit) in kayaks at Port Burwell, Cape Chidley; a fire on board ship; aerial shots of the ship; a newspaper cutting announcing "Beothic returns from supply trip to Arctic" after six weeks in Arctic regions supplying Canadian outposts. <51mn 20s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

1920-DN-37-1~1920-DN-37-2~1920-DN-37-3~1920-DN-37-4

Notes:

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1. In this restored version the various sequences in the film are arranged in the order in which they were shot.~2. The running time is based on the measured length of the print calculated at 18 fps.~3. For more information see "Canadian Feature Film Index 1913-1985", page 13.~4. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.~5. Premiered on January 19, 1930 at the Imperial theatre, Ottawa.
~6. See also ISN 61875, 225494, and 225495.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

252120

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9502-0169
9502-0170
9502-0171
9502-0172

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

1920-DN-37-1
1920-DN-37-2
1920-DN-37-3
1920-DN-37-4

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

281111

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9605-0231
9605-0232
9605-0233
9605-0234

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

9502-0169
9502-0170
9502-0171
9502-0172

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

281112

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9605-0235
9605-0236

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

9605-0231
9605-0232
9605-0233
9605-0234

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

334992

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9907-0002

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

9502-0172

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

369843

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2002-03-0017
2002-03-0018

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

9605-0231
9605-0232
9605-0233
9605-0234

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

369844

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2002-03-0019
2002-03-0020
2002-03-0021
2002-03-0022

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

9605-0231
9605-0232
9605-0233
9605-0234

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

390722

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2004-01-0034

Number of items:

1

Duration:

93:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

951172

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

9502-0169-DPX
9502-0170-DPX
9502-0171-DPX
9502-0172-DPX

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

38:35

Made from:

9502-0169
9502-0170
9502-0171
9502-0172

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

951174

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

225952.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

38:35

Made from:

9502-0169
9502-0170
9502-0171
9502-0172

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

951175

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

225952.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

38:35

Made from:

9502-0169
9502-0170
9502-0171
9502-0172

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

978903

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2004-01-0055

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8411-0660
CFI-312-A
9502-0076
8105-0341
7901-0096
7909-0873
9502-0169
9502-0170
9502-0171
9502-0172

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

979836

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2005-04-0042

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8004-0134
8004-0135
8004-0136
2002-03-0019
2002-03-0020
2002-03-0020
2002-03-0021
2002-03-0022

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2004-01-0034

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD579

Restrictions on consultation:

Open

Donor restrictions:

Reproduction with permission of NFB.

Copyright status:

Crown copyright over 50 years. Copyright expired.

Copyright owner:

Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of NFB

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