Summary

The importance of mining and exploration in World War II Canada

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Pathe
Negative # 18332
Clip SR002117_01_01.mov
Date 09/01/1941
Title The importance of mining and exploration in World War II Canada
Description Title cards: "The national film board presents for the director if information; (turning globe animation) Canada carries on; the strategy of metals"; [credits]; "today the destiny of nations depends on their possession of the metals vital in war" / VS POV unid skyline and smokestacks; white smoke rises into sky; industrial complex with much smoke: locomotives belching smoke and steam / AERIALS: military base with barracks; road (with marching troops?); large houses with snow in their yards; snow-topped trees; vast areas with snow / VS high angle view of Eskimo dog-sledder; the dogs running through deep snow; sledder struggling to make way though chest-high drift; man (in barroom) walking up to another as he examines rock / aerial view countryside / VS shadow of strut and snow plane; view of land from inside cabin; airplane landing; children on swings; airplane landing and slowly taxiing with houses beyond; items being unloaded from plane; pilot speaks into microphone; operator with candlestick telephone; airplane coming in for landing; passing terrain; taxiing; futuristic streamlined vehicle being pushed by propeller / Note: exact day not known
Country Canada

Keywords

archival
newsreel
snow
skylines
smoke
steam
pollution
smokestacks
industry
locomotives
forests
fields
houses
pilots
World War II
Eskimos
Inuit people
snowdrifts
airplanes
swing sets
swings
landings
taxiing
microphones
telephones
unloading
propellers
aerials
bars
stores
equipment
mining
minerals
rocks
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