Series A - Cinefilm

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CA ON00349 2015.002-A

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Cinefilm

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  • 1904-1970 (Creation)

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(1926-)

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This series contains the following cinefilms:
Detective and Hypnotist – 16 mm., b&w silent, 150 ft. (n.d.)

Newsreel – “Lest We Forget” (Selected World War I footage) – 35 mm b&w positive, silent, 950 ft. (1914-1918)

Newsreel – Selected Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry footage – 35 mm b&w negative, silent, 175 ft.(1914-1919)

  • Memorial structure
  • Woman’s profile
  • Troop ships in a harbour

Newsreel – Depression-Era footage – 35 mm., b&w negative silent, 150 ft. (1930-1939)

  • Red Cross Relief
  • Flop-House
  • Parcels, Clothes, and Shoes

Newsreel Mute #1 – 16 mm., b&w silent, 400 ft. (1919-1924)

  • Prince of Wales visiting Canada, 1919
  • Car Painting, 1924
  • Police Van
  • Seaplane
  • Strike at Toronto
  • Chinese Market
  • McKenzie King at Mont Tremblant
  • Buffalo herds
  • Destroying Lathes
  • Log-sleigh road grading
  • Lumberjacks dancing
  • Car and tire manufacturing, 1924
  • Curtis Jenny seaplane

Newsreel Mute #2 – 16 mm., b&w silent, 400 ft. (1904-1921)

  • Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara Falls
  • Fire Brigade (1904 Toronto fire?)
  • Ice Boat
  • Governor General Lord Byng, 1921
  • Soldiers Marching (WWI)
  • Lady Cyclists
  • Racing cars
  • Royal Parade, London
  • Royal Durbar, Delhi (King George V), 1910
  • Plowing Match [Brantford, 1917]

Newsreel #7 – “Farewell to Yesterday” – 35 mm. b&w positive, opt. sound, 850 ft. (n.d.)

Newsreel #8 – 35 mm., b&w positive, opt. sound, 650 ft. (1930s)

  • Opening of Trans-Canada Highway
  • Point Racing
  • Kurusuku in Berlin
  • Hitler & Mussolini in Brenner
  • Gian Ciano (Italian Foreign Minister) & King Victor Emmanuel in Rome
  • General Motors Oshawa Strike, April 1937
  • Chinese Crowd Running from Japanese Soldiers

Newsreel “Fox #9” – 35 mm. b&w duplicate negative, 509 ft. (1930s)

  • Winston Churchill and Gen. Montgomery
  • Mussolini & Hitler
  • Matsuoka Visits Berlin
  • Formation of Home Guard
  • Mussolini & Hitler Brenner Pass
  • Hitler/Mussolini/King & King Victor Emmanuel in Rome

Newsreel #10 – “Farewell to Yesterday” – 35 mm. b&w positive, opt. sound, 1200 ft. (n.d.)

Newsreel Footage “15 Selected Takes” - 35 mm. b&w positive, opt. sound, 450 ft. (1933-1945)

  • Kurusuku Visits Berlin
  • Mussolini Reviews Troops
  • Hitler Meets Mussolini at Armoured Train
  • ? giving a Speech
  • Nazi Riots
  • Hitler and Mussolini Inspect Guard
  • Mussolini Inspects African Guard
  • “Burning of the Books” - Goebbels Giving Speech at Night Rally, 10 May 1933
  • Japanese Infantry Charge
  • Mussolini Inspects Guard
  • Women Read V-E Day Newspapers, 8 May 1945
  • “Burning of the Books” – Close-up of Goebbels, 10 May 1933
  • Antisemitic Campaign 1933
  • Hitler giving Speech
  • Hitler Dancing

Newsreel Footage – 35 mm. b&w workprint, 450 ft. (1930s-1940s)

  • Building Lancaster bombers in Malton
  • Dutch settlers at Arsnoveld
  • Grey Cup Hi-jinks, Toronto
  • Hitler/Kurusu, Ciano, Ribbentrop
  • Wasaga air strip

Newsreel Footage – 35 mm. b&w workprint, 200 ft. (1930s)

  • German troops, WW2

Newsreel Clip - “Bleriot’s Channel Flight” - 35 mm. b&w negative, silent, 50 ft. (25 July 1909)

“Explosions – Historical Footage” - 35 mm. b&w workprint, 450 ft. (n.d.)

Newsreel Clips – “Hitler-Mussolini-Hirohito – Rallies/Manoeuvres/Reviews Sherman Grindberg/Pathe, 35 mm, b&w workprint, 500 ft. (1920-1940)

“The Construction of a Concrete Highway” (Government of Ontario – Department of Public Highways) – 16 mm., b&w silent, 242 ft. (1917)

  • shows the building of a portion of the Toronto to Hamilton Highway where it passes through Oakville, official opening of highway

Fox Newsreel - “Canada News” – 16 mm. b&w positive, silent, 700ft. (n.d.)

  • Two way conversation from a speeding train

Newsreel Items – 35 mm. b&w silent, 1500 ft. (1917-1968)

  • 1917 Royal Navy Seaplane Trials
  • 1919 Royal Navy Seaplane Trials
  • 1968 Historic Air Review

“Riots in Hungary and Paris” – 35 mm. b&w positive, silent, 450 ft. (n.d.)

“Operating a 28 mm. Printer” – 16 mm. b&w silent, approx. 100 ft. (ca. 1970)

Recorded Sound Effects – 35 mm. magnetic soundtrack, 600 ft. (1930s)

  • Heil Hitler
  • Bells – Street Cars
  • Automobile horns
  • Crowds

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