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Cold Facts = Cold Facts from the Northland

Item number (ISN):

7729

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1937

Item number (ISN):

7729

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE

Accession:

1967-0010

Media:

Film

Original title:

Cold Facts

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1937

Production company:

Associated Screen News Ltd.

Production credit:

director, Gordon Sparling; scenario, Margot Blaisdell; photography, Alfred Jacquemin; Ross Beesley; Angelo Accetti; editing, A.R. Thom; sound, Maurice Metzger

Cast credit:

Whitfield Aston, Cecil Nichol

Sponsor:

International Harvester Company of Canada Ltd.

Description:

A commercial for International Harvester's tractors. A father and son argue the merits of using heavy machinery to open up the North. Shots include: a bulldozer clearing land in north woods; tractor trains hauling supplies and logs across frozen lakes and through the woods. An early snowmobile half-track is shown. Sequence on a Fairchild ski plane CF-AXO taxiing, and on a Travelair ski plane CF-AEJ taking off. <9mn 47s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Deposited with the Canadian Film Institute by the National Film Archive, London (December 11, 1967); transferred from CFI to PAC in 1975.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

5875

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8510-0085

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

15924

Format:

FILM

Location number:

CFI-V1-30

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

15925

Format:

FILM

Location number:

CFI-7025/A

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

48827

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8705-0065

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

66959

Format:

FILM

Location number:

CFI-7108/A

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

507276

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2010-04-0015

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

507278

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2010-04-0014

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

120:00

Made from:

9003-0194
9207-0188
9207-0189
9207-0190
CFI-7025/A
2007-03-0149

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8510-0085
V1 8705-0065
V1 2010-04-0015

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: International Harvester Company of Canada Ltd.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of BFI

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