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Plan for Disaster

Item number (ISN):

23570

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1950

Item number (ISN):

23570

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

ASSOCIATED SCREEN NEWS LTD.

Accession:

1973-0127

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1950

Production company:

Associated Screen News Ltd.

Production credit:

director, Robert J. Martin; photography, Robert Brooks; editing, Albert Edward; narrator, Ken Davey; sound, Walter Darling

Sponsor:

The Canadian Red Cross Society

Description:

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Sponsored documentary about the role of the Canadian Red Cross in helping Canadians cope with disasters such as fires and floods. It begins with a montage of people at work in various occupations such as lumberjacks and miners. It then shows various disaster scenes such as a twister; damaged buildings; buildings with roofs missing; buildings on fire; toppled power lines; tree on fire; train crash and floods. Scenes of flooding in a city (probably Winnipeg circa 1950) showing Dunkirk Drive and a horse-drawn wagon moving down a water-covered street; a ship in stormy waters; fire trucks at the scene of a fire and the S.S. Noronic, which caught fire. A map shows the location of Red Cross branches across Canada. Also shown are Red Cross volunteers wearing Red Cross armbands as the voiceover explains the role of the Red Cross in organizing and coordinating volunteers. Members of the Disaster Services Committee shown in a meeting. Red Cross workers with blood supplies.~Close-up of headline of "The Winnipeg Tribune" newspaper during the flood (apparently 1950) as the narrator talks about the importance of the work of the Red Cross in keeping communication open when disaster strikes; still photographers and newsreel cameramen; quick shot of a radio announcer at a microphone (no actuality audio); aerial view of a flood; closer view of flooded street showing building with sign on it that reads "Morley Grocery"; people filling sandbags and women wearing Red Cross armbands bring them something to drink; Red Cross volunteers helping various people during flood; two young men shown sitting on porch roof to escape floodwaters; volunteers at headquarters taking phone calls; collecting, sorting and distributing clothing; nurses and other Red Cross workers helping to evacuate a hospital and comfort the injured; Red Cross workers carrying blood for blood transfusions onto a Trans-Canada Airlines plane; workers loading supplies onto a plane; train with Red Cross sign on it; scenes of fires and the mushroom cloud of a nuclear bomb. <17mn 10s>

Language:

English

Original number:

B-841

Notes:

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1. Credited as a production of Associated Screen Studios.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

14305

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8406-0054

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

18244

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-2335/A

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

18254

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-2335/B

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

31639

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-2338
N-2339

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

34406

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8406-0195
8406-0196

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8406-0199
8406-0200

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

34409

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8406-0197
8406-0198

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

N-2338
N-2339

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

34410

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8406-0199
8406-0200

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

8406-0197
8406-0198

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

34411

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8406-0201
8406-0202

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8406-0203
8406-0204

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

122103

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-6538

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Max. shrinkage:

0.7%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

122108

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-6539

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Max. shrinkage:

0.9%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

122111

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-6540

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

1.2%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

305251

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-7107
7301-7108

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

NEG

Max. shrinkage:

0.8%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

505297

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2010-02-0013

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

505298

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2010-02-0014

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

120:00

Made from:

7505-0293
7708-0235
8108-0940
8406-0195
9007-0112
9202-0091
9202-0093
9207-0120
9207-0147
9208-0046

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8406-0054
V1 2010-02-0013

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: the Canadian Red Cross Society.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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