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[Doug Betts No. 5 : home movie]

Item number (ISN):

327741

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1933

Item number (ISN):

327741

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Accession:

1974-0155

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1933

Description:

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Work-related and off-duty activities filmed by RCMP Constable Doug Betts while posted in Whitehorse and Carcross, and visiting Dawson, Yukon, and Northern Manitoba. Workmen rolling logs onto carts; stern wheeler on river; barges being pushed; Views of abandoned boat; seaplane (identification CF-AXK) flying in and landing dropping off Government official; barge with ore sacks; abandoned paddle wheeler along shoreline; caterpillar tractor pulling seaplane into water (identification CF-ATJ); Constable Doug Betts and Verda Betts coming out of house in Carcross; aerial view of mountains and rivers; placer mining operations to find gold; miners breaking up ore, removing boulders from rock side, operating large drilling equipment and sluice box; boats at dockside; winter hunting party including pack dog; view of landscape with binoculars; Aboriginal man as special constable during trip; meat hanging to dry at the Betts' house in Carcross; Constable Doug Betts smoking pipe and working on report in his office; arctic dog sled in Northern Manitoba; refuelling local airplane; caterpillar tractor pulling supply wagon; Ford tri-motor aircraft; train arriving in town; Doug Betts snowshoeing. <29mn 25s>

Language:

Silent

Notes:

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1. Date identified by edge coding on film.~2. Constable Doug Betts became a corporal in the 1940s and then a Sergeant in the 1950s. He died in 1954.~3. Subject description information from screening notes taken by archivist during an oral history interview of Norm Betts, son of Doug Betts, on June 30, 2004.~4. Original title: Life in the Yukon and Northwest Territories - No. 5.

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Vault ISN:

360519

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-7385

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Max. shrinkage:

1.4%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

360523

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7301-7384

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ORIG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

362166

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8207-0248

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7301-7384

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

362168

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8207-0250

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8207-0248

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

362170

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8207-0252

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8207-0248

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

396191

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2004-05-0017

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

979172

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2004-05-0044

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8808-0145
8808-0146
8404-0493
8609-0090
7301-1928
8207-0248
8207-0255
7301-2130

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2004-05-0017

Copyright status:

Copyright expired

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictionsCopyright owner: National Archives of Canada.

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