'The Way We Were': Nova Scotia in Film, 1917-1950

Nova Scotia Archives Film Holdings Database

Hairdressers Contest

Format: 1 film reel (00:05:55 hrs.) : silent, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Footage of an actual hairdressing contest.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 622 Supplemental information no.: Mf205-1

Science Around Us

Format: 1 film reel (00:1:01 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Scenic shots of brook and snow banks.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 812 Supplemental information no.: Mf212-22

Seascapes

Format: 3 film reels (00:26:05 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Profiles of three Nova Scotia artists who focus on painting the sea: William DEGARTHE of Peggy's Cove, [Joseph PRUCELL] of Lunenburg, and Jack GRAY of Halifax Harbour.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 484 - 486 Supplemental information no.: Mf195-21

Isaac Walton Killam Children's Hospital Kermesse

Format: 1 film reel (00:07:47 hrs.) : silent, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Scenes of the ribbon opening, rides, tents, booths, tea room, music, and amusements at the Isaac Walton Killam Children's Hospital Kermesse (held outdoors on a sunny day).

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1167 Supplemental information no.: Mf226-10

Apple Blossom Festival

Format: 1 film reel (00:39:08 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A film on the Apple Blossom Festival, beginning with interviews with each of 13 princesses, going on to crowning of queen at a ball. Much parade footage, Libby interviews children in costumes.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1158 Supplemental information no.: Mf226-01

Neptune Theatre

Format: 1 film reel (00:28:25 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A special programme marking the opening of the new Neptune Theatre in Halifax, N.S., in 1963. The first artistic director, Leon MAJOR, describes in detail the history of the theatre and its goals and plans.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1989-57 / Location no.: Fb 2399 Supplemental information no.: Mf262-54

The Words In My Mouth

Format: 4 film reels (00:29:25 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Ken HOMER looks at the Roman Catholic religion and the use of the Gaelic language in Cape Breton. A history of the faith and the language and its current status in C.B. is given. HOMER interviews two priests a Father ROSS and Rev. A.D. MACKINNON. They discuss the gradual loss of the gaelic on the island.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1415 - 1418 Supplemental information no.: Mf245- 05

Auto Graveyard and Garbage

Format: Film reels (00:05:05 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Outtakes of garbage in containers, along sidewalks, in backyards, being dumped on streets, tires, old car wrecks in lots etc.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 638 Supplemental information no.: Mf209-2

Carol Lane Awards

Format: 1 film reel (00:01:15 hrs.) : silent, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Shots of people receiving statues or plaques at an awards presentation (the Carol LANE Awards).

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1164 Supplemental information no.: Mf226-07

Bluenose Gold

Date: 1963
Format: 16 mm : b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: INTERVIEWS WITH PROSPECTORS ON GOLD MINING IN HANTS COUNTY, NOVA SCOTIA.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: FB 135 Supplemental information no.: MF 196 - 23

Schools

Format: 1 film reel (00:05:47 hrs.) : silent, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Establishing shot of school buildings, scenes in school classrooms, teachers and students. Shots of St. Andrews School, Graham Creighton School/ County schools etc.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1193 Supplemental information no.: Mf228-2

Jack MacAndrew - Cyrus Eaton

Format: 16 mm : b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Cyrus EATON is interviewed at the EATON estate in Pugwash, Nova Scotia.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: FB 210 Supplemental information no.: MF 196 - 62

Bounty Premiere

Format: 1 film reel (00:08:15 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Libbie goes to the premiere showing of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' at the Paramount Theatre in Halifax, and talks to people going in and out of the cinema.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1175 Supplemental information no.: Mf226-17

Halifax Jolly Tar

Format: 1 film reel (00:03:00 hrs.) : silent, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: The Jolly Tars meet (probably the Mayor) outside City Hall, then parade up to Citadel Hill, where they take part in noon- gun firing ceremony.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1180 Supplemental information no.: Mf226-20

Spanish Barque

Format: 1 film reel (00:00:20 hrs.) : silent, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Footage of a spanish barque under sail.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1094 Supplemental information no.: Mf222-3