Recherche dans la collection - [Aircraft in Northern Canada]

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: STOCK SHOTS

1977-0205

Film

1 of 1

1920/1929 ?

Unedited footage and sequences showing Ontario Government Forestry Branch flight operations using air force flying boats HS2Ls and Vedettes and DH 60X Moths on floats. Sequence on activities at sub bases, mechanics working on aircraft, launching same. Shots of various other aircraft, a Canadian Transcontinental Airways Fairchild 71 - G-CAIQ, pontoon equiped and taking off from ice surface. Aerials of northland. Sequnce on a large smokey fire at a base. Impossible to tell what is burning. slapstick comedy bit involving man covered with bear skin. Roughhousing. Sequence on barge transportation on northern river, passengers on docks. Views of an air force DH-9 taking off at a base, and of a Siskin fighter being rolled out of hanger and being started by means of truck mounted mechanical starter. Ground to air of the planes in flight. Sequence on buffaloes in stock pens.

Libre

V1 8212-0009

GAD 0FD579

~Available Onsite Only / Seulement disponible sur le site

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