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[Where the Walens Divide]

Item number (ISN):

244729

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

244729

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE CANADIAN ROCKIES

Accession:

1983-0336

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Description:

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The intertitles and footage shown in this scenic film are as follows: "Seeping slow from gray-green glacier, leaping down from crag to valley, rushing on through lake to ocean -- hear the three-way waters flow!"; footage of glacier river; "From a lone Canadian ice-field northward to the frozen Arctic, eastward to the gray Atlantic, westward to the warm Pacific."; shot of a waterfall; "Towering each beside the other, facing each its proper ocean three great peaks allot the waters"; footage of mountain peak, river, mountain and peak; "Cradled in the arms of glaciers, there the infant rivers sleep."; shots of mountain slopes; "Down the slopes of Mount Saskatchewan"; shot of mountain slope; "Creeps its age-old glacier."; footage of slope and ice; "From beneath its giant fissures springs the Alexandra River."; shot of river flow; "Falling sheer in unnamed torrents joins the North Saskatchewan."; shot of river; "Stretching Eastward to the wheat-lands, merges in the gray Atlantic."; shot of mountain and lake; "Mount Columbia rises sixteen miles from Mount Saskatchewan."; mountain shots; "With the Broad Columbia Glacier, crawling down its western ranges."; shot of glacier; "There to form Columbia River, roling to the warm Pacific."; lake; "Ten miles east of Mount Columbia looms the peak of Athabasca."; peaks; "From its heights the frozen waters move in terraced glaciers northward."; glacier; "At the glacier's foot emerges silver Athabasca River."; mountains; "Flowing past the Black Friar Mountain."; river; "past the flinty Chisel Peak."; peak; "Far to northward Athabasca wends the gray Mackenzie River, monarch of the ice-locked Arctic."; shot of the water; "Thus the vast Columbia Ice-Field sends three ways its sparkling waters."; shots of glacier and river; ".Tripping down the mountain stair-ways."; shots of waterfall; "Some to wear away the ledges of the lost Sunwapta Canyon," shot of canyon; "Some to rest in calm maligne."; shot of lake; "-- Dreaming of their journey seaward."; shots of lake; " -- From the continental crest."; shots of mountains. <6mn>

Language:

Silent

Original number:

NF3-13

Notes:

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1. Made in Saskatchewan.~2. Footage interspliced with descriptive narration.~3. "Massachusetts Department of Public Safety" is printed at the head.~4. There are no head or tail credits.

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Vault ISN:

32514

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8411-0091

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

277461

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8312-0053

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

.2%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8411-0091

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions : with credit to Peter and Catherine Whyte Foundation

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