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[Mackenzie Park]

Item number (ISN):

327811

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1923/1924

Item number (ISN):

327811

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: NON NFB FILMS

Accession:

1982-0217

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1923/1924

Production company:

Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau

Production credit:

photography, Harlan I. Smith

Sponsor:

National Museum of Canada
Parks Branch

Description:

Silent footage about the inhabitants of Mackenzie Park, Northwest Territories. It shows: the Mackenzie River; mountains and forested areas; views of Indian settlements; Indians working in and around the park; men and women on horseback; houses; two Indians in a very long canoe; an Indian and a white man with camera and gun; close-up totem poles with carved faces and figures; four Indians working in bush along the road; women working in fields and basket-weaving; local carrier transports goods in a horse-drawn cart; Indian man and women leaving a store with supplies; children diving from plank into river; three children on a raft with woman guiding with a long pole; the river taken from steamer with part of deck shown, the Petroglyph Falls; a sign on the road; and a group sitting on ground having a picnic. <4mn>

Language:

Silent

Notes:

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1. Crown copyright over 50 years : copyright expired.~2. Harlan Ingersoll Smith (1872-1940) joined the Geological Survey of Canada as head of the Archaeology Division (now part of the Canadian Museum of Civilization) in 1911.~3. Smith was also a pioneering ethnographic filmmaker documenting Plains, Plateau and Northwest Coast Aboriginal people. ~4. Films photographed by Harlan I. Smith which are in the LAC film collection include:~[Flood at Bella Coola] (ISN 320980).~Tsimshian Indians of Skeena River British Columbia (ISN 77858).~Shuswap Indians of British Columbia (ISN 283954).~Shuswap Indians of British Columbia (ISN 100955).~Nootka Indians of British Columbia (ISN 100976).~Coast Salish Indians of British Columbia (ISN 182473).~Bella Coola Indians of British Columbia (ISN 183081).~Kootenay Indians of British Columbia (ISN 194562).~Carrier Indians of British Columbia (ISN 284401).~Cheenama the Trailmaker: An Indian Idyll of Old Ontario (ISN 219308).~Blackfoot of Alberta (ISN 270799).~Stoney Indians of Alberta (ISN 290759).~Bella Coola Valley and Mackenzie Park (ISN 318885).~[Mackenzie Park] (ISN 327811).~In Canadian Fjords (ISN 346964).

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Vault ISN:

174828

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8210-0046

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

360730

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8210-0024

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Max. shrinkage:

0.5%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8210-0046

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD579

Copyright status:

Copyright expired

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of responsible departments : no donor restrictions

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