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

Nova Scotia Archives Film Holdings Database

Sydney Regional Hospital

Format: 1 film reels (00:11:57 hrs.) : sound, colour
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: [Cape Bretoners want a new regional hospital, a centre for specialized services. Federal & provincial studies have unanimously recommended a new hosptial, but as of yet no provincial government has been willing to make the financial or political commitment to establish one.

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 3170 -3171 Supplemental information no.: Mf 411 -26

Emergency Measures Organization

Format: 2 film reels (00:27:29 hrs.) : sound, colour
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: [Film looks at how well prepared the Maritimes are in the event of a nuclear war. Includes footage of bomb shelters & Halifax explosion.]

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 3186 -3187 Supplemental information no.: Mf 411 -33

Pay T.V.

Format: 1 film reel (00:07:58 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: [Pay television. How much it costs and what you get for your money is investigated.]

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 3174 -3175 Supplemental information no.: Mf 411 -28

Venture Gas

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

Note: [Programme looks at Nova Scotia offshore gas exploration (Venture) that will go into production. Is their a market What price will it get How much will the province get out of 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 3200 -3201 Supplemental information no.: Mf 411 -36

Orders In Council

Format: 2 film reels (00:16:49 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: [Cabinet members secretly determine how to spend taxpayers money, make appointments and reach decisions that shape our lives all through something called an 'Order in Council'.

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 3172 -3173 Supplemental information no.: Mf 411 -27

Tidal Power

Format: 1 film reels (00:09:25 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: [Sometime this spring the tidal power commission will apply for a license to raise the water levels in the Annapolis River between 2- 4 feet. A lot of farmers in the affected area are concerned about wihat that is going to do to some of Nova Scotia's finest agricultural marshland.

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 3180 -3181 Supplemental information no.: Mf 411 -30

Paddy Fitzgerald Case

Format: 2 film reels (00:24:54 hrs.) : sound, colour
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: [Gordon Paddy FITZGERALD was convicted of raping a client & sentenced to 5 years in medium security prison at Springhill. After serving 9 months he was let out on parole. His lawyer Welsford MACARTHUR is trying to get FITZGERALD a new trial. The film deals with the facts of the original trial & why a new trial is needed.

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 3168 -3169 Supplemental information no.: Mf 411 -25

Elizabeth May - Spray Controversy

Format: 2 film reels (00:16:00 hrs.) : sound, colour
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: [Elizabeth MAY, a Dalhousie University law student has taken up the fight against 3 multinational pulp & paper companies that want to spray herbicides (2,4,D & 2,4,5,T- Agent Orange) on thousands of acres of Nova Scotia woodland.]

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 3184 -3185 Supplemental information no.: Mf 411 -32

atlantic Film Co-Op w Harbour tour

Date: 1983
Format: 1 film reel (00:20:00 hrs.) : silent, b&w
Filmmaker: Charles H. Clark

Note: This is one of two rolls of reversal film donated by Clark as one of the printing elements of '8 Frames per Second'. It shows Charles CLARK interviewing 'Sophie', the main character in '8 Frames per Second', and her friend [Ruby] during a boat tour of Halifax Harbour and the Northwest Arm. There is also footage showing the view from the boat, passing ships, other passengers on the boat, etc.

Access: Donor holds copyright. No access without written permission of the donor..

Reference: Charles H. Clark Nova Scotia Archives 1987-27 / Location no.: Fb 2822

Interview w Sophie Rube My Room

Date: 1983
Format: 1 film reel (00:20:00 hrs.) : silent, b&w
Filmmaker: Charles H. Clark

Note: This reversal film contains silent footage of [Charles H. Clark] interviewing 'Sophie' and her friend 'Ruby' at his apartment for '8 Frames per Second'.

Access: Donor holds copyright. No access without written permission of the donor..

Reference: Charles H. Clark Nova Scotia Archives 1987-27 / Location no.: Fb 2823

Urbal Land Use

Date: 1983-1984
Format: 1 videocassette (00:60:00 hrs.)
Filmmaker: Friends of the Public Gardens

Note: Host John MURCHIE interviews Leslie SHAW and Stephen MILLS, members of the Friends of the Public Gardens, about alternate development on the Summer St. site where United Equities Ltd. proposes to build a highrise apartment comples. Also two CBC First Edition reports by Paul BARR and Bette CAHILL about the protest by the Friends of the Public Gardens over the proposed Summer St. development.

Production Company: Halifax Cablevision/ Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcaster: Halifax Cablevision/ Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Access: Open for consultation; no duplication.

Reference: Friends of the Public Gardens Nova Scotia Archives 1986-59 / Location no.: Vb 249

atomic Dragons

Format: 1 videocassette (00:5:00 hrs.) : VHS, colour
Filmmaker: James MacSwain

Note: This video is a dub of a film that examines the disposal of nuclear reactive wastes in a story that seems both fantastic and yet, all too real. The filmmaker exploits the animation genre to its fullest, using cut-out, live and photographic techniques to illustrate his satiric fable. [catalogue][dub]

Production Company: Doomsday Studios
Director: MACSWAIN, James
Writer: MACSWAIN, James
Broadcaster: Canadian Filmmaker's Distribution Atlantic
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.: Vb 442

atomic Dragons

Format: 1 film reel (00:4:00 hrs.) : colour
Filmmaker: James MacSwain

Note: A film that examines the disposal of nuclear reactive wastes in a story that seems both fantastic and yet, all too real. The filmmaker exploits the animation genre to its fullest, using cut-out, live and photographic techniques to illustrate his satiric fable. [catalogue][release print]

Production Company: Doomsday Studios
Director: MACSWAIN, James
Writer: MACSWAIN, James
Broadcaster: Canadian Filmmaker's Distribution Atlantic
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 3355

Aerials

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

Note: Halifax/ Dartmouth

Production Company: Information Services Division - Film Unit
Broadcaster: NS Department of Government Services
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 2148; Fn 139 Supplemental information no.: mf115-576

Royal Visit '8 Ns

Date: 14-16 June 1983
Format: 94 film reels
Filmmaker: Nova Scotia Information Services

Note: [Original footage from visit of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. Production was postponed in 1983 and eventually cancelled.]

Production Company: Information Services Division - Film Unit
Producer: Ned Norwood
Broadcaster: NS Department of Government Services
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: Nova Scotia Information Services Nova Scotia Archives 1985-71 /