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Mary Pickford Visits Birthplace in Canada

Item number (ISN):

23613

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1948-01-12/1948-01-14

Item number (ISN):

23613

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:

1975-0212

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1948-01-12/1948-01-14

Release date:

1948

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Cast credit:

Mary Pickford, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Viscount Alexander

Country of production:

us

Distributor name:

Fox

Description:

Scenes in Ottawa on Monday, January 12, 1948: Mary Pickford, wearing a full-length white fur coat, gets out of a car, assisted by a Mountie, and followed by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. She bows to a cheering crowd. She curtsies twice as she is presented to the Governor General of Canada, Viscount Alexander of Tunis, in front of the Elgin Theatre where they are to attend the world premiere of the film SLEEP, MY LOVE which she produced.~Scenes in Toronto on Wednesday, January 14, 1948: two policemen in leather coats lift Miss Pickford up to see over a wooden fence. She looks at the open area where the Hospital for Sick Children is to be built and points to where her home used to be. <37s>

Language:

Mute

Notes:

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1. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' print calculated at 24 fps.~2. Mary Pickford was born Gladys Smith in Toronto April 8, 1892 (not 1893 as she always claimed).~3. This was Miss Pickford's first visit to Ottawa.~4. Miss Pickford made this trip to Canada to support the Canadian appeal for Children, a UNESCO project, and spoke passionately both about starving children in France and the importance of the success of the newly formed United Nations.~5. Miss Pickford spent January 13 in Montréal where she met with Mayor Camillien Houde and signed a photograph for one Margot Robert who had presented her with a bouquet when she visited Montréal 25 years before.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

19350

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8605-0327

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7301-9030

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

19377

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8605-0335

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8605-0327

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

79408

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8409-0054

Number of items:

1

Made from:

7701-0008

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

104812

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-9030

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8409-0054

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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