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The Robson Trail

Item number (ISN):

385102

Series title:

Seeing Canada

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1928

Item number (ISN):

385102

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

JOLY, Jean-Jacques

Accession:

2006-0135

Media:

Film

Original title:

The Robson Trail

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1928

Production company:

Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

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A short travelogue depicting a trip from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Film begins with extreme long shots of Winnipeg's urban-industrial areas of Notre Dame Avenue West and Main Street (North and South). A day's journey away from "the busy middle-west metropolis" is wooded grassland where a collection of buffalo, elk, and moose are all protected by the Dominion Government at Wainwright, Alberta. The first stop is Jasper National Park, where the Raven Totem Pole greets tourists at the train station nestled in the Rocky Mountains overlooking the Athabasca Valley. Inter-title: "Crossing the Athabaska, we reach lac Beauvert in time for the 'Buffalo Barbeque' in honor of the Imperial Press party. Lord Burnham makes an admirable chef, while lady Burnham greatly assists." Activities of members of the Imperial Press Conference at Jasper National Park. Inter-title: "And How the British newspapermen did enjoy those generous slices of delicious roast buffalo meat!" Ponies are procured and the journey begins with a first stop at Pyramid Lake and Mountain. Twenty miles down the old Athabasca Trail is Mount Hardisty, which overlooks the Athabasca River and its Falls. Shot of a cameraman cranking his camera as he films a jasper guide standing along a river. A slow panoramic shot of another mountain reveals itself as Mount Edith Cavell, named in honour of the heroism of a British nurse. Across the interprovincial boundary is Lucerne, British Columbia, which is set on the marge of a lake at the base of Yellowhead Mountain. Boarding a train at Lucerne takes the traveler to Mount Robson, "the Monarch of the Rockies" with its great tumbling glacier hanging above Berg Lake. Beyond Mount Robson is a river that snakes through Bulkley Canyon past Bulkley Gate. The railway passes close to the shores of Skeena River, "one of the world's greatest salmon streams". The train finally docks at Prince Rupert, "the city carved out of the mountain-side". Having reached the Pacific, the tourist can now decide whether to take the "great oil-burning vessels of the Grand Trunk Pacific" southward to Vancouver, Victoria, and Seattle, or northward to Alaska. <8mn 19s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.~2. The roll is missing the head title and production credit.~3. See also IDC 336740 for the version of The Robson trail produced by the Exhibits and Publicity Bureau.~4. The end credit identifies this film as part of the Seeing Canada series, produced by the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau.~5. This version of the film does not include the sequence involving the salmon canneries.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

446793

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2007-11-0203

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

461487

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2009-01-0011

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

2007-11-0203

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

489842

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2009-03-0030

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

2009-01-0011

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

493687

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2009-03-0061

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

2009-01-0011

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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