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

Nova Scotia Archives Film Holdings Database

Waste Not Want Not Agricultural Waste

Format: 2 film reels (00:27:50 hrs.) : sound, colour
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: No information presently available.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1987-03 / Location no.: Fc 953- 954 Duplication no.: Vb 77 Supplemental information no.: Mf288-91

No Fish a Down East Embarressment

Format: 2 film reels (00:27:50 hrs.) : sound, colour
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: [Footage includes- the trawler 'Cape Argus' at sea in a storm, fish and meat in the stores.]

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1987-03 / Location no.: Fc 963- 964 Supplemental information no.: Mf288-96

Blueberry Industry

Format: 2 film reels (00:26:22 hrs.) : sound, colour
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: [ Footage of: high bush blueberry picking, and low bush blueberry raking/ processing and shipping blueberries/ interviews in Quebec and the Maritimes regarding the berry industry.]

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1987-03 / Location no.: Fc 975- 976 Supplemental information no.: Mf288-102

Sarah Jackson

Date: ca. 1976
Format: 1 film reel (00:10:00 hrs.) : 16 mm, sound, colour
Filmmaker: Sarah Jackson.

Note: Film shows artist Sarah JACKSON at work. She explains some of her thoughts and the processes that go into her work, including xerography and sculpture.

Production Company: Doomsday Studios Ltd.
Producer: Ramuna MacDonald
Director: MACDONALD, Ramuna
Broadcaster: National Film Board of Canada
Access: Open for consultation. Copyright restrictions apply for use or duplication.

Reference: Sarah Jackson. Nova Scotia Archives 1997-10 / Location no.: Fc 3407

Fireball Sailing Championships

Date: 1976
Format: 1 film reel (00:8:00 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Sport Heritage Centre

Note: Scenes from the Fireball Sailing Championship on St. Margaret's Bay in 1976. Shows two person crews with close-ups of each competing team - alternating with distant shots of all boats. Does not show race in its entirety.

Access: Open for consultation. Permission required from copyright holder for use or duplication.

Reference: Nova Scotia Sport Heritage Centre Nova Scotia Archives 1997-13 / Location no.: Fc 3410

Highlights of Sports For The Disabled

Format: 1 film reel (00:9:00 hrs.) : sound, colour
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Sport Heritage Centre

Note: Documentary about various sports that include wheelchair, blind and amputee athletes as competitors. Sports include: archery, weightlifting, swimming, high jump, running and lawn bowling

Production Company: Organizing Committee of the 1976 Olympics for the Physically Disabled
Access: Open for consultation. Permission required from copyright holder for use or duplication.

Reference: Nova Scotia Sport Heritage Centre Nova Scotia Archives 1997-13 / Location no.: Fc 3416

Mime Workshop

Format: 2 videoreels (00:60:00 hrs.) : b&w
Filmmaker: Video Theatre Association

Note: [Video Theatre Catalogue #: 12BW0376001m]

Access: Open reel videotape: CLOSED for conservation.

Reference: Video Theatre Association Nova Scotia Archives 1984-23 / Location no.: Va 92 , Va 93

Video Theatre

Format: 1 videoreel (00:17:00 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: Video Theatre Association

Note: A composite tape showing segments from tapes in the Video Theatre Catalogue. This tape also explains the Video Theatre's operating methodology.[Video Theatre Catalogue #: 12BW0176001]

Access: Open reel videotape: CLOSED for conservation.

Reference: Video Theatre Association Nova Scotia Archives 1984-23 / Location no.: Va 160

Room For a Coop

Format: 1 videoreel (00:60:00 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: Video Theatre Association

Note: [Video Theatre Catalogue #: 34BW0176006]

Producer: B. Burley And R. Holt
Access: Open reel videotape: CLOSED for conservation.

Reference: Video Theatre Association Nova Scotia Archives 1984-23 / Location no.: Va 124

Canadian Association of The Mentally Retarded

Format: 2 videoreels (00:34:00 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: Video Theatre Association

Note: Video tape shot at the Cornwallis Inn in Kentville, N.S., of C.A.M.R. annual meeting 1975.[Va 25: master; Va 26: dub][Video Theatre Catalogue #: 12BW0176002d/m]

Producer: Challenge For Change
Access: Open reel videotape: CLOSED for conservation.

Reference: Video Theatre Association Nova Scotia Archives 1984-23 / Location no.: Va 25, Va 26

Canadian Association of The Mentally Retarded

Format: 1 videoreel (00:30:00 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: Video Theatre Association

Note: This video tape examines several aspects of integrated recreation as it relates to the normalization principle[Video Theatre Catalogue #: 12BW0176003m]

Producer: Challenge For Change Video Theatre Secretary Of State
Director: VAUGHN, Kenneth
Access: Open reel videotape: CLOSED for conservation.

Reference: Video Theatre Association Nova Scotia Archives 1984-23 / Location no.: Va 27

Essential Golda Schwartz

Format: 1 videoreel (00:60:00 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: Video Theatre Association

Note: A comedy production by a Dartmouth, N.S. Opportunities For Youth group. This was their first attempt at video production and writing.[Video Theatre Catalogue #: 12BW0176009m]

Producer: Dartmouth Opportunities For Youth
Access: Open reel videotape: CLOSED for conservation.

Reference: Video Theatre Association Nova Scotia Archives 1984-23 / Location no.: Va 59

Lighting

Format: 3 videoreels (00:30:00 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: Video Theatre Association

Note: Demonstration of practical video and film lighting techniques by NFB cameraman Kent Nason.[Va 87: master; Va 88, Va 121: dubs][Video Theatre Catalogue #: 12BW0176008d/m]

Producer: Kent Nason
Access: Open reel videotape: CLOSED for conservation.

Reference: Video Theatre Association Nova Scotia Archives 1984-23 / Location no.: Va 87, Va 88, Va 121

Le Groupe De La Place Royale

Format: 2 videoreels (00:36:00 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: Video Theatre Association

Note: A tape of several dance pieces by this internationally acclaimed dance troup. Shot for le Groupe while in Halifax on a nationwide tour.[Video Theatre Catalogue #: 12BW0376004]

Producer: Le Groupe De La Place Royale N.S. Dance Co-Op
Director: DOIRON, Roland; HEBERT, Robbie
Access: Open reel videotape: CLOSED for conservation.

Reference: Video Theatre Association Nova Scotia Archives 1984-23 / Location no.: Va 67, Va 68

Question of Survival

Format: 4 videoreels (04:00:00 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: Video Theatre Association

Note: Tignish Fisheries Co-operative started as an attempt by fishermen to break the control that fish companies had on the fishing industry and the fisherman's lives. The co-op succeeded and, in its 50 years history, has become the economic mainstay of the village of Tignish. This tape documents the history of the co-operative and presents some of the contemporary problems it faces.[Video Theatre Catalogue # 12BW0176007]

Producer: Prince Edward Island Video Project
Access: Open reel videotape: CLOSED for conservation.

Reference: Video Theatre Association Nova Scotia Archives 1984-23 / Location no.: Va 111, Va 112, Va 113, Va 114