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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: CAM GRAHAM PRODUCTIONS, THE DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY

1995-0172

Film

1921

Pathescope of Canada Limited

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Archival footage acquired for research and reuse in the CBC television series The Days Before Yesterday. Part of a film about education. It is about young schoolchildren in Ontario. Story of Ontario schools in general, with intertitles. Shown are the long trek by students in winter, the schoolhouse, stoking the pot-bellied stove, classes, lunchtime, and students going home again. Part 3 explains that children have to leave the road to avoid tramsp. A representative of the board of education meets to discuss school consolidation. Five local schools combine. Footage of school opening. sleighs to transport children to school, classes, lunch, recreation and health inspection. Schooling has improved because of consolidation. The segment ends with the question "How does your school district stand on consolidation?".

Silent

Open

GAD 0FD547

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~Copyright varies since the footage comes from a number of sources.~Terms of copyright owners' original agreements with donor uncertain.~Material which Cam Graham obtained from the Imperial War Museum, London, requires the written permission of IWM for reproduction.