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Mining Ontario Graphite = Graphite Mining

Item number (ISN):

440784

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1925 ?

Item number (ISN):

440784

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:

1972-0105

Media:

Film

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1925 ?

Production company:

Ontario Motion Picture Bureau

Description:

"Graphite is an important Canadian export. It is used as a lubricant for machinery and also in iron foundries. The principal deposits occur near Calabogie, Ontario." The film includes footage of White Fish Lake, near Calabogie, and the village of Black-Donald which is named after the mine. Shot of a projectionist lubricating a film projector with graphite lubricant. Various shots inside the mine shoring up the mine with heavy timber, air drills at work, and preparing to blast. Various shots of of loaded rail cars dumping, and emptying loads into the crusher. Shots of the refining plant, washing screen, wet separation tables, and settling tanks. Shots of the flake graphite being polished by large French Buhr Stone machines. Shots of the graphite being bagged and loaded for transfer to the shipping point. INTER-TITLE: "Graphite is an important export. About 90 percent of the ore shipped from Calabogie finds a foreign market."

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

2263~2264~2265

Notes:

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1. Subject description and production date taken from The Films of THE ONTARIO MOTION PICTURE BUREAU - A Preliminary Catalogue - Mick Mitchell, July, 1993.~2. See also IDC 188764, MINING ONTARIO'S GRAPHITE, which is a shorter version than this 28mm three-reeler. The 28mm version is slightly longer and uses a different font style in the inter-titles.~3. Listed in the 1927, 1929, 1931, and 1933 Ontario Motion Picture Bureau catalogues as GRAPHITE MINING.~4. Head title indicates, A Province of Ontario Picture.~5. Crown material over 50 years - copyright expired.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

588771

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2263/A
GC-2264/F
GC-2265/J

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

588773

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2263/B
GC-2264/G
GC-2265/K

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

588774

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2263/C
GC-2264/H
GC-2265/L

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

615158

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2012-11-0008

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

GC-2263/B
GC-2264/H
GC-2265/K

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

621717

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2013-01-0006

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

100:00

Made from:

2010-10-0015
2010-10-0008
2012-11-0008
2010-12-0058
7706-1206
7706-1211
7301-6027
8222-1584
8222-1585

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

621734

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2013-01-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

100:00

Made from:

V4 2013-01-0006

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

914263

Format:

FILM

Location number:

GC-2263/D
GC-2264/I
GC-3289/E

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2013-01-0005

Restrictions on consultation:

The permission of Library and Archives Canada is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Library and Archives Canada

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