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

Nova Scotia Archives Film Holdings Database

Trains Stills of Trains

Format: 2 film reels (00:02:05 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Scenes of trains and still photographs of trains, set to music.

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 584 585 Supplemental information no.: Mf202-60

New Brunswick Farmers Meeting

Format: 6 film reels (00:11:00 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Two items: interviews by Bill SKERRETT with people involved in forest management in Sweden; and item on the control of Bovine Brucellosis in cattle in Canada.

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 1302 2587 2588 Supplemental information no.: Mf229-60

Man On the Street - Armdale Rotary

Format: 2 film reels (00:3:14 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Gerry BIRT interviews drivers who pass through the Armdale Rotary about an experiment by City Engineers to divert traffic in order to ease congestion at rush hour.

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 724- 725 Supplemental information no.: Mf211-40

Anil Water Pollution

Format: 1 film reel (00:2:43 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Dave ROWE interviews an unidentified resident near the [Anil Plant - Bowater Mersey] about the pollution caused by effluent from the plant.

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 664 Supplemental information no.: Mf211-1

Tancook Island

Format: 3 film reels (00:19:04 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A profile of life on Tancook Island, N.S.

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 953- 955 Supplemental information no.: Mf219-10

Malagash Grain Ltd.

Format: 15 film reels (00:22:00 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Numerous items: interviews by Bill SKERRETT with shareholders of Malagash Grain Ltd.; strawberry market in the Maritimes; explanation of a honey wagon (manure truck); silent footage of Nova Scotia College of Agriculture graduation; silent footage of demonstration of farm winch; potato planting in New Brunswick; grain seeding at Piell farm in Canning, N.S, and statement by Jack JOHNSON about future of grain growing.

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 1308 1309 2606 - 2619 Supplemental information no.: Mf229-63

Native Ferns

Format: 1 film reel (00:02:11 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Footage of 4 homes and the ferns growing there.

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.: Fc 382 Supplemental information no.: Mf216-30

Man On The Street - Fountain

Format: 2 film reels (00:2:18 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Various people remarking on the fence erected around the fountain on South Park Street.

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 706- 707 Supplemental information no.: Mf211-31

National Farmers Union Meeting etc..

Format: 4 film reels (00:24:00 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Three items: footage of a meeting of the National Farmers Union; silent footage demonstrating the care of diesel fuel; interview by Bill SKERRETT with Premier Walter SHAW of Prince Edward Island about the 4-H programs 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 1285 1286 Supplemental information no.: Mf229-53

New Zealand Dairy Farming

Format: 5 film reels (00:14:00 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Three items: Frank NICHOLSON interviews various people involved in the dairy industry in New Zealand; report on the damage to grain crops in Carleton Co., New Brunswick, by hurricane Gerda; and demonstration of orchard machinery.

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 1312 2650 2651 2652 Supplemental information no.: Mf299-65

New Zealand Lambs

Format: 4 film reels (00:15:20 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Report by Frank NICHOLSON on the sheep industry in New Zealand.

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 1291 - 1293 Supplemental information no.: Mf229-57

Man On The Street - Heavy Water

Format: 2 film reels (00:3:45 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Various people comment on the money spent by the Nova Scotia Government on the still non-operational heavy water plant in Canso, N.S.

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 708- 709 Supplemental information no.: Mf211-32

Man On The Street Interview - Aging

Format: 2 film reels (00:03:23 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Gerry BIRT question people on the street about aging.

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 591 592 Supplemental information no.: Mf202-64

Man On The Street - Interviews

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

Note: PEOPLE ON THE STREET ARE INTERVIEWED REGARDING BEEF PRICES.

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 117 Supplemental information no.: MF 196 - 11

Man On The Street- Maritime Union

Format: 2 film reels (00:3:20 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Gerry BIRT interviews several people about the idea of Maritime Union.

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 714- 715 Supplemental information no.: Mf211-35