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Where Firemen Grow Wings : Fire Fighting With Aeroplanes

Item number (ISN):

376579

Series title:

Cameraring in Canada

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1922/1923 ?

Item number (ISN):

376579

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAPHIC CONSULTANTS LTD.

Accession:

1970-0046

Media:

Film

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1922/1923 ?

Production company:

Filmcraft Industries

Production credit:

edited and titled, Katherine Hilliker; supervised, G.W. Brownridge

Sponsor:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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Being the further adventures of John the Cameraman. "Up north where the great forests of Ontario rear their plumes against the sky, we heard of a fierce race of fighters...eagle-eyed men, dauntless in danger and relentless against the enemy that summer after summer swoops down in their midst." Film about experiments by the Ontario Forestry Department to use aircraft to fight forest fires. It shows: long view air to air shot of early 1920s sea planes flying in formation; long shot aerial view of large lake with bays and inlets; pan to dock area showing lake freighters in foreground; long shot of sea plane taxing for takeoff on lake; medium air to air shot showing cloudy sky; pan to lake below; medium air to air shot looking down at a flying seaplane, practising a side slipping manoeuvre; pan to buildings and factories in background; medium aerial shots of forested terrain and lakes, shot by forest patrol planes at altitudes of between 4,000 and 5,000 feet; long view aerials of Lake Nipigon country; pan to column of smoke in the distance, as a forest fire starts; extreme close-up ground shot of a forest fire, showing trees and bushes engulfed in flames; medium air to air shot of seaplane gliding gracefully, with lakes and forest in background; close-up of two early model cars arriving in a forest, carrying fire fighters; unloading fire fighting equipment such as a gasoline driven water pump and hoses; water pump being put into operation; hose leading to water hole; forest fire in the background; extreme close-up of trees burning; close-up of man hosing a tree; and extreme close-up of trees and brush burning.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. The Ontario Motion Picture Bureau catalogues first listed this title in 1923, as a 2-reel film, catalogue numbers 2176 and 2177 (the 35mm version was 714 feet), so this footage appears to be incomplete.~2. The Films of the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau - A Preliminary Catalogue, p. 92, states that a neg and test for this film title was ordered in September 1922 and it first appears in the OMPB catalogue in 1923.~3. At the Whitney Base on Cache Lake.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

338809

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8501-0054

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

383022

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2177
GC-2177/A

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

429494

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2177/B

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

510542

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2177/C

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

530535

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2011-04-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-2177
GC-2177/A

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

608736

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2012-10-0049

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

2011-04-0005

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8501-0054

Reproduction access:

closed : to be used for reference purposes only within NA and not to be duplicated for commercial use

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