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[Winnipeg "If" Day]

Item number (ISN):

24517

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1942-02

Item number (ISN):

24517

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

Accession:

1978-0203

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1942-02

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

photography, Lucien Roy

Description:

Mock German invasion of Winnipeg, staged as part of the Victory Loan campaign. Canadians, dressed as German troops, arrest and search people getting off a bus. They arrest the Mayor, haul down the Union Jack and raise a swastika. Prisoners of war are interrogated and placed in concentration camps. Civilians read bulletins on billboards in front of "Das Winnipeger Lugenblat". Nazi troopers remove furniture from buildings. A priest is arrested and worship is forbidden. Nazis invade a classroom, displaying a swastika, and erase a lesson on democracy from the blackboard.

Language:

Silent

Original number:

45-900

Notes:

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1. Filmed by Lucien Roy, newsreel cameraman for Associated Screen News Ltd.~2. For longer version, see ISN 24519.~3. Roy's IF DAY footge was also used in newsreels by Paramount, News of the Day, and Universal.~4. Issued before 11 March 1942 when the story was reported in the Canadian Film Weekly.~5. A type-written note in the film can provides a subject description prefaced by, "If the Nazis win the war what will it be like? Associated Screen News of Montreal goes to great length to show what might happen if we come under the Nazi heel."

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Vault ISN:

346416

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-9003

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM
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Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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