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

Nova Scotia Archives Film Holdings Database

Fi Fie Fo Fum

Format: Film reels (00:29:25 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A documentary on Nova Scotia giants Anna SWAN & Angus MACASKILL. Includes footage of: Tatamagouche, stills of Anna & Angus, Anna's home; interviews with Seldon SWAN & Len SWAN, St. Anne College director A.W.R. MACKENZIE, historian William ROSS, author James B. GILLIS and MACASKILL's nephew John MACASKILL.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1123 1124 1125 1126 Supplemental information no.: Mf224-4

Canada Day Parade: Gagetown, Inspecting The Troops

Format: 3 film reels (00:27:54 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: The opening ceremony for Canada Day Parade at Gagetown. The chief of the Canadian general staff General GRAHAM inspects the troops.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1783- 1785 Supplemental information no.: Mf260-04

Salt In the Blood

Format: Film reels (00:29:25 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A look at the significance of ships and the sea to Nova Scotia culture. Includes footage of Halifax Harbour piers, fishing trawlers, schooners, unloading fish, freighters, oceanliner, surf and waves, coves and bays, fishing villages, lobster fishing, net repairing, general store, village church etc.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Producer: Bill Harper
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction. Fb 1134: CLOSED: conservation

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1131- 1134 Supplemental information no.: Mf224-6

Stars of The Festival

Format: 1 film reel (00:28:40 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: George RICH hosts this programme presenting the winners of the Canadian Music Festival held in Halifax, N.S. Heard performing are Gloria RICHARD of Moncton, N.B.; David MURRAY of Halifax; and Robert OSMOND of St. John's, Nfld. Interviewed are Lorna GRAYSON, Vice President of the Atlantic Region, and John CHURCHILL, adjucator of the festival.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1755 Supplemental information no.: Mf259-02

Camp Gagetown

Format: Film reels (00:29:25 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A documentary on Camp Gagetown, NB. Includes footage of the military camp, a map of NS & NB, aerial shots of expropriated land, Petersville town scenes, commander Colonel C.H. COOK, tanks, cafeteria, married quarters, battle exercises, nuclear warfare exercises, Canada Day parade.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1135 1136 1137 1138 Supplemental information no.: Mf224-7

Tomorrow's Metals

Format: Film reels (00:29:25 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A documentary on mining in New Brunswick. Includes footage of: prospecting, staking claims, aerial surveys, Bathurst NB Mining & Smelting Corp., miners going underground, tunnel drilling, ore loaders, lab work, Heath Steel Mines, Newcastle NB, pit mining, railway construction, Beechwood power dam.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Producer: Bill Harper
Writer: BARRY, Keith
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1139 1140 Supplemental information no.: Mf224-8

Barb and Bill

Format: Film reels (00:19:22 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A programme of music featuring songs sung by Bill LANGSTROTH and Barbara BYRNE.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1754 Supplemental information no.: Mf344-1

Brooms Abroad

Format: Film reels (00:29:21 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A documentary of the Maritime Flying Curlers tour of Europe. Includes footage of the flight, arrival in Scotland, a curling match, speech by Roy THOMSON [THOMPSON], birthplace of Alexander Graham BELL, Edinburgh Castle, other Scottish sites, British tourist sites, Paris & Switzerland tourist sites.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1127 1128 1129 1130 Supplemental information no.: Mf224-5

Jet Training

Format: 1 film reel (00:9:52 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Jet training film to brief pilots on procedures for take off and landings. Some aerial footage.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1782 Supplemental information no.: Mf260-03

The Continentals

Format: 1 film reel (00:19:25 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Footage of the group The Continentals performing in a French cafe with Gladys PARNELL singing songs of the continent. Bill LANGSTROTH hosts.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 2123 Supplemental information no.: Mf261-30

Legend

Format: 1 film reel (00:29:25 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A programme of music and dance around the theme of vampires, werewolves, hairy monsters and witches.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1157 Supplemental information no.: Mf225-03

Blind Reason

Format: 2 film reels (00:29:25 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Teleplay plotline centres around a woman who suspects her husband is plotting her murder.

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Producer: Robert Alban
Writer: WHATSLEY, Alwyne
Broadcaster: CBHT
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction.

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1369- 1370 Supplemental information no.: Mf236-1

The Vigil

Format: 2 film reels (00:59:25 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: The trial of a gardener accused of stealing the body of Jesus of Nazareth from the tomb and placing it in an unmarked grave to create the miracle of the rising of Christ on the 3rd day.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1855- 1856 Supplemental information no.: Mf262-06

Legend

Format: 1 film reel (00:28:08 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A programme of music and dance around the theme of Greek mythology featuring singers Carol Anne EGAN, David BROWN and Carl WEBBER.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1155 Supplemental information no.: Mf225-01

Just Passing Through

Format: 1 film reel (00:29:25 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A drama which takes place in a restaurant, the owner is frequently being held-up but doesn't report the hold-ups to the police because he only keeps $2.00 in the cash register. A stranger arrives and changes everything.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1857 Supplemental information no.: Mf262-07