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The Holdin' Ground

Item number (ISN):

41849

Series title:

The Way We Are

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1986

Item number (ISN):

41849

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: WAY WE ARE, THE

Accession:

1987-0034

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1986

Release date:

1987-02-12

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

director, Robert Petrie; producer, Tom Cahill; executive producer, Robert Allen

Cast credit:

Paul O'Neill, Kevin Noble, Otto Tucker, Grace Sparkes, Judy Furlong

Description:

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Drama from Newfoundland, based on a story by Ted Russell. This tells the story of a stranger who returns to Pigeon Inlet for a last look at his roots. WalcottThe residents there, unaware of his personal tragedy, welcome him with open arms and give him the strength to face his ordeal. He asks to be taken to visit Muldoon's Cove, six miles down the coast. Muldoon's Cove has been abandoned for 60 years. Its families of Muldoons, Shannahans and Cassidys were forced to immigrate to the United States to find employment. Grandpa Walcott, age 80, the sage of Pigeon Inlet, and Eli Whitten, head of the fishermen's union local, take the stranger to the cove and are amazed when he takes the tiller of the skiff and pilots the boat expertly through the treacherous harbour entrance. In the cove he knows about Paddy Muldoon's old house and the abandoned graveyard behind it. When he tells Grandpa Walcott the exact date of the departure of the last family from the forgotten settlement, Grandpa recognizes the visitor as Michael Fergus Shannahan, the son of one of his closest boyhood friends. With the revelation of his identity, Michael is treated by Grandpa and Eli to one of the treats he came home to enjoy, fresh mussels boiled in their own seawater. Back in Pigeon Inlet, Grandpa takes Michael to visit Grandma. The old lady is almost stricken by the sight, recognizing him immediately as the son of her best childhood acquaintance, Maggie O'Rourke. She shows him a begonia plant she has kept alive for 60 years, since it was given to her by his mother before she left Newfoundland. Soon, Michael has to leave and catch the coastal boat, despite Grandma's pleas that he stay longer. A few months pass before a letter arrives to provide a surprise ending to the story. This the final program in the series THE WAY WE ARE. <30mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Description from CBC Television Advance Program Information No. 17, Week of 7-14 February 1987, p. 13 and CBC Television Program Release No. 19, 20 January 1987.~2. Shot on location at the abandoned southern shore community of LaManche in August 1986 as well as at Brigus South on the Avalon Peninsula, which is the regular Pigeon Inlet site.~3. Interior shooting was completed in the CBC St. John's studios.

Genre:

DRAMA

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

326505

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9903-0051

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

740277

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

41849.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9903-0086

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

740278

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

41849.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9903-0086

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1185907

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_9903-0086.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9903-0086

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1185908

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4_9903-0086.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 9903-0086

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9903-0051

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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