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[Early News Items]

Item number (ISN):

273896

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1944 ?

Item number (ISN):

273896

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:

1 of 1

Production date:

1944 ?

Production company:

Associated Screen News Ltd.

Description:

Early news stories ordered by ASN for film on General Motors. Unveiling of service flag for employees of G.M. Canada. Parking lot occupied by horses and buggies. Two or three horses and buggies moving in the general direction of camera on dirt road. Busy, early 1920s city scenes, auto traffic, pedestrians scurrying about. Custom built auto for Duke of Windsor being completed. Shots of refinements. Cable from the Duke expressing appreciation for the car. Montage of futuristic G.M. cars; hundreds of insignias of defunct automobiles. Vintage news showing motorcade and old bearded gentlemen being greeted. Sequences selected from fictious films showing G.M. cars, forgotten actors etc. One shot shows motorcade moving as one along a country road.

Language:

Silent

Notes:

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1. Stock shots for General Motors.~2. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

306036

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-0894

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

306037

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-1059

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

RED PRT

Made from:

7301-0894

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

306038

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7712-0225

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7301-1059

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

306039

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

13-0026

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Made from:

7301-1059

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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