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

Nova Scotia Archives Film Holdings Database

Steel Live And Let Die

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

Note: No information presently available.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1988-47 / Location no.: Fc 3100- 3101 Supplemental information no.: Mf 387 -51

Boxing

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

Note: [A look at the amateur boxing scene in Nova Scotia.]

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1988-47 / Location no.: Fc 3098- 3099 Supplemental information no.: Mf 387 -49

Update

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

Note: [An updated look at the spraying programme in New Brunswick and the Acadian situation in NB. A brief look at PEI since the recent change in government.]

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1988-47 / Location no.: Fc 3104- 3105 Supplemental information no.: Mf 387 -53

Fish

Format: 2 film reels (00:28:10 hrs.) : sound, colour
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: No information presently available.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1988-47 / Location no.: Fc 3096- 3097 Supplemental information no.: Mf 387 -48

...You Might As Well Be Dead

Format: 2 film reels (00:28:50 hrs.) : sound, colour
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: The welfare system in Canada was set up to fill a definite need- 41% of welfare recipients are permanently disabled. Although many of us are critical of welfare, any of a number of changes in our lives could force personal dependence on this system. Show looks at a particular instance in Richmond County, Cape Breton.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1988-47 / Location no.: Fc 3080- 3081 Supplemental information no.: Mf 387 -27, 28

Politics of Disaster The Coal Special

Format: 2 film reels (00:28:50 hrs.) : sound, colour
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: No information presently available.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1988-47 / Location no.: Fc 3082- 3083 Supplemental information no.: Mf 387 -29, 30, 31

Police Stress

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

Note: A look at some cases involving police brutality in the Atlantic Provinces and what can be done about it.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1988-47 / Location no.: Fc 3106- 3107 Supplemental information no.: Mf 387 -54

Coal Great Black Hope

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

Note: [The Cape Breton coal situation is looked at- the future, the environmental problems from using coal, the cost etc. are all looked at.]

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1988-47 / Location no.: Fc 3102- 3103 Supplemental information no.: Mf 387 -50, 52

Maritimes Fisheries Union Teargassed By Rcmp

Date: 23 September 1979
Format: 1 videocassette : sound, colour
Filmmaker: Fish or Cut Bait Collective

Note: Footage of teargassing by RCMP of striking fisheries worker in Caraquet, NB

Production Company: Fish or Cut Bait Collective
Producer: Bill McKiggan And Tom Burger
Access: Open for consultation; written permission must be obtained from copyright owner for use or reproduction.

Reference: Fish or Cut Bait Collective Nova Scotia Archives 1989-34 / Location no.: Vc 1273

Fish Or Cut Bait Negatives

Date: 1979-1980
Format: 21 film reels : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Fish or Cut Bait Collective

Note: Negative film of Maritime Fishermen's Union meeting in New Brunswick, of Cape Breton, Canso, Little Harbour (NS), Glace Bay, Newfoundland and Caraquet and of National Sea Products trawlers and plants in Lunenburg. Used for the production of FISH OR CUT BAIT. See Mf 325 for details.

Production Company: Fish or Cut Bait Collective
Producer: Bill McKiggan And Tom Burger
Broadcaster: Fish or Cut Bait Collective
Access: Open for consultation; written permission must be obtained from copyright owner for use or reproduction.

Reference: Fish or Cut Bait Collective Nova Scotia Archives 1989-34 / Location no.: Fn 39, 44 -63 Supplemental information no.: Mf325 /96-116

Jonah Drama

Date: 12 April 1979
Format: 1 videocassette (00:9:55 hrs.)
Filmmaker: Norma Joy

Note: Taping of a performance of the musical play 'Jonah and the Great Director' written and directed by Norma JOY and performed by the students of the Bloomfield School, Halifax, N.S. This performance was taped by and broadcast on the CBC Newsday programme.

Director: JOY, Norma
Writer: JOY, Norma

Reference: Norma Joy Nova Scotia Archives 1989-19 / Location no.: Vc 1224

Kiss

Date: 1979
Format: 1 film reel : S8mm, silent, colour
Filmmaker: James MacSwain

Note: This is Jim MACSWAIN's first film. It was made during a workshop at the Atlantic Filmmakers' Co-operative and shows members of a co-operative household kissing each other. Among those appearing in the film are: MacSwain, Karen SHLICK, Linda MOORE, Sandy MOORE, Lorca MOORE, Sandy GREENBURG, David ROEBACK, and Peter LAVAL.

Production Company: Atlantic Filmmakers' Cooperative
Director: MACSWAIN, James
Writer: MACSWAIN, James
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2016

Reference: James MacSwain Nova Scotia Archives 1996-12 / Location no.: Fc 3373

Evangeline Country Ns

Date: April 1974
Format: 1 film reel : sound, colour
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Information Services

Note: [Production of this film was postponed 07 June 1979 for lack of funds. It was released in 1979 for the NS Department of Tourism. Working title was EVANGELINE TRAIL]

Production Company: [Nova Scotia Information Services Film Unit for] the NS Department of Tourism
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives 1990-23 / Location no.: Fc 2135 Supplemental information no.: mf115-605

Royal Visit

Format: 1 film reel : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Information Services

Note: Queen Mother's arrival at Shearwater and her arrival at Government House

Production Company: Photographic Division (Film Photography)
Broadcaster: NS Communications and Information Centre
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives 1991-27 / Location no.: Fc 2314

Royal Visit

Format: 2 film reels : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Information Services

Note: Queen Mother at Metro Centre Tattoo

Production Company: Photographic Division (Film Photography)
Broadcaster: NS Communications and Information Centre
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives 1991-27 / Location no.: Fc 2318- 2319