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Motoring in Cloud-Land

Item number (ISN):

377642

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1925

Item number (ISN):

377642

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

JOLY, Jean-Jacques

Accession:

2006-0135

Media:

Film

Original title:

Motoring in Cloud-Land

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1925

Production company:

Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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Intertitle: "The new Banff-Windermere motor highway across the Central Canadian Rockies provides a magnificent open-air and open-sky route to the National Parks, famous resorts and scenic treasures of Western Canada." Shot of a car traveling along a highway. Intertitle: "It is the last link in the wonderful 4,200 mile system of highways through Canada and the United States known as the 'Grand Circle Tour' and completes what is probably the most spectacular motor route in the world." Shot of an animated map of the Grand Circle Tour through Canada and the U.S.A. Intertitle: "Nature has carved her own majestic gate-way to the new highway - Sinclair Canyon." Panoramic shot of Sinclair Canyon as automobiles drive through it. Intertitle: "A mile farther along are the Radium Hot Springs." A car pulls up and people traverse a small bridge with towels in hand. Shot of people enjoying the spring waters, swimming and bathing. Intertitle: "Winding up by easy gradients the road climbs to the summit of Sinclair Pass where lies Lake Olive - A pool of amber sheen, set like a jewel in the forest green." Cars pass each other along a roadway. Intertitle: "From the summit of Sinclair Pass the road drop down in great sweeps to the picturesque valley of the Kootenay with every mile an enchantment and a surprise." Various shots of cars passing and traveling along the highway. Intertitle: "Leaving the river, the new highway cuts through the forest between tall lines of slender pines that stand so straight at either side that the road becomes a canyon of living green." A motorist stops along a tree lined highway to talk to a man on horseback. Intertitle: "Away with schedules! A mountain stream reminds that 'living, not getting a living' is the chief aim of life." A man casts a fly-rod into a stream and lands a trout.~Intertitle: "Along the whole route the wild things peer at passing cars, curious but unafraid." Various shots of animals; bears, moose, deer and mountain goats. Intertitle: "Mountain air produces an ever-sharp appetite that makes the simplest fare taste like food for the Olympian gods." Long shot of a family parked at the side of a roadway picnicking. Intertitle: "Marble Canyon - chiselled by rushing water in the course of a few hundred thousand years, is but one of the countless interesting features to be viewed on the trip." A family crosses a stream by bridge as the camera pans across a waterfall. Intertitle: "Crossing the Vermillion Summit into Banff National Park, glorious old Castle Mountains looms ahead." Shot of an automobile with Castle Mountain in the background.~Intertitle: "The bighorn sheep realize that man - the ancient enemy - is here no longer wild." A car stops along a road side to view bighorn sheep. Intertitle: "Nestling among giant peaks lies Banff, Alberta, a world-famous resort that offers many kinds of hospitality and recreation." Long shot of Banff main street. A golf course, and lady golfer with the mountains in the background. Long shot of a man hiking. Shots of a herd of buffalo. Intertitle: "Deposed monarchs of an ancient day." Intertitle: "A short run from Banff through fine scenery brings us to the eastern gateway of the highway." A car passes along a highway and exits a gate that reads 'Gateway Rocky Mountains Park." <8mn 31s.>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

432468

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2006-11-0028

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

433995

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2006-12-0201

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

2006-11-0028

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

437177

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2007-04-0084

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

2006-12-0201

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

438885

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2007-05-0188

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

2006-12-0201

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

579907

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2012-04-0010

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

50:00

Made from:

2009-03-0030
2007-04-0084
2007-09-0053
8221-7818
7709-1622

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

579908

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2012-04-0012

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

105:00

Made from:

V4 2012-04-0010
V4 2012-04-0011

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2012-04-0012

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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