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City of Playgrounds = Un million pour les jeux = [One Million Dollars for Recreation]

Item number (ISN):

85597

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1949

Item number (ISN):

85597

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CRAWLEY FILMS LIMITED

Accession:

1983-0373

Media:

Film

Original title:

City of Playgrounds

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1949

Release date:

1949-05

Production company:

English version
Crawley Films Limited

Production credit:

director, Henri Gibeau; producer/editing, Wanda Nowakowski; scenario, Claude Robillard; photography, J.A. Lavery; sound, [Rod Sparks]

Country of production:

cn

Sponsor:

Montreal Department of Public Works

Description:

The film illustrates the results of a city program, started in 1942, to create playgrounds in Montreal. Starting with only 9 playgrounds, the city boasts 100 by 1948, including 15 open-air pools and 17 indoor pools for year-round use. Cost of the program was one million dollars a year. Footage shows a summer of playground activities, including Registration Day, a parade, races, baseball, tug-of-war, other team games, swimming, crafts, slides, swings, story-telling and the gymnastics competition which closes off the summer. Winter footage shows children at the indoor pool, figure skating on an outdoor rink, a boys' hockey game and a toboggan run. <12mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Additional information on this film may be available in the production file (Manuscript Division MG 28 III 99, Volume 1).~2. [One Million Dollars for Recreation] was a working title which appears in some Crawley documentation.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

76042

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8330-0175/001

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ORIG

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

0.8%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

76043

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8330-0175/002

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

OPT TRK

Technical description:

POS

Max. shrinkage:

0.8%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

317089

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9812-0033

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

997559

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9812-0043

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

7301-7091
7301-7092
7301-8167
7301-8168
8330-0211/100
8330-0175/001
8330-0175/002
7301-7454A
7301-7349
7301-7351
8221-3574
8221-3575

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9812-0033

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Bill Stevens.~Contact for Bill Stevens is Bill O'Farrell Sr.

Reproduction access:

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

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