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Canadian History Test 1967

Item number (ISN):

9502

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

9502

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: KINES FROM PARC, TORONTO

Accession:

1982-0194

Media:

Video

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1967-01-01

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

director/producer, Bill Bolt; executive producer, Thom Benson; technical producer, Peter Taylor; script, Lister Sinclair; narrator, Rex Loring; photographer, Chris Slagter

Description:

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Television Centennial program in celebration of Canadian confederation. Hosts Donald Gordon and June Callwood present multiple choice questions and answers on Canadian history before a studio audience consisting of University of Toronto history students and various public figures, including Elwy Yost. Audience members press buttons on consoles at their seats to record their answers on an electronic display and results are compared at the end of the program. Clips and commentary accompany the various questions.~Footage includes: Sir Frederick Banting receiving the Nobel prize for medicine in 1923; the Halifax Citadel and aerial shots of the harbour and nearby Fort Louisbourg; King George VI's 1939 visit to Winnipeg and Queen Elizabeth II's 1959 visit with shots of both receiving fur pelts from Indian tribes; aerial shots of Niagara Falls and Niagara River; shots of Fort Niagara and Fort George; Callwood explains the battle of Queenston Heights at the monument of Sir Isaac Brock; W.L. Mackenzie King with Sir Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt at the 1943 Quebec Conference; aerial shots of the Canadian Rockies, Vancouver, and the Lyon's Gate Bridge; the gravesite of Louis Riel in Winnipeg's St. Boniface Cathedral cemetery; World War I Commander Sir Arthur Currie and shots of Canadian armed forces in France; World War II sea battles and bombers; and stills of the the Halifax explosion with comment from author Hugh MacLennan. Additional clips and comments from: Prime Minister Lester Pearson on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize; a cartoon of Loyalist settlements by Duncan Macpherson; Conservative leader John Diefenbaker explaining the 1960 Bill of Rights at the Parliamentary library; Viscount Amory, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, from Beaver House in London, explaining the charter of the Hudson's Bay Company; the Right Honourable Vincent Massey talking about the North Atlantic Halibut Treaty; Ian Sinclair, president of Canadian Pacific, on the building of the railway; a scale model representation of the battle on the Plains of Abraham; Tommy Douglas, New Democratic Party leader, at Confederation Hall in Canada's Parliament Buildings, talking about Canada's entry into the Second World War and J.S. Woodsworth's speech in the House of Commons on that occasion, and writer Hugh MacLennan giving his recollections of the 1917 Halifax explosion. Also shown are stills of French seigneurs and former Canadian prime ministers.

Subjects:

CANADA~EXPLOSIONS~HALIFAX ~HISTORIC SITES~LOUISBOURG ~NIAGARA FALLS ~PRIME MINISTERS~QUIZ SHOWS~VISITS OF STATE~WINNIPEG ~WORLD WAR, 1914-1918 ~BANTING, FREDERICK~CALLWOOD, JUNE~CHURCHILL, WINSTON~CURRIE, ARTHUR~DIEFENBAKER, JOHN G.~DOUGLAS, THOMAS C.~ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN, 1926-~GEORGE VI, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN~GORDON, DONALD~KING, WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE~MASSEY, CHARLES VINCENT~MCLELLAN, HUGH~PEARSON, LESTER B.~ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.~SINCLAIR, IAN~YOST, ELWY

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Credit given to Royal Ontario Museum; Imperial Oil of Canada; National Gallery; Confederation Life Collection; National Archives of Canada, and sponsor, American Iron and Steel Institute (including its Canadian members).~2. Listed in the kinescope inventory record under the heading Canada, which represented a way of organizing the kinescopes and not a broadcast series.~3. Questions 17 to 20 are not included.~4. The CBC Times of July 1-7, 1967, p. 11, gives a score sheet for viewers to record their answers.~5. Includes commercial for Steel and Iron Institute of America.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

16986

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8210-0026

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

376389

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2002-09-0022

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

668538

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

9502.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2002-09-0066

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

668540

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

9502.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V4 2002-09-0066

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

977965

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 2002-09-0066

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

V4 8210-0011

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8210-0026
V1 2002-09-0022

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

To be Determined / À déterminer

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, the CBC, is required to reproduce this material.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: CBC.

Reproduction access:

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

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