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

Nova Scotia Archives Film Holdings Database

Nigeria - Work Print K

Format: 1 film reel (00:9:30 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Various shots taken in Nigeria including Dr. Leighton and his colleagues in planning sessions and conducting interviews; and of Nigerian village life.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2112 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 79

Nigeria - Work Print

Format: 1 film reel (00:11:20 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Various African scenes including: grasslands on fire; oceans and beach; jungle; a beachside village; and roads.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2109 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 76

Nigeria - Original Roll C

Format: 1 film reel (00:7:00 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: A village market in Nigeria; a large gathering of tribespeople; and a researcher travelling by bicycle visits the headman of a village.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2068 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 44

Nigeria - Original -Roll 1

Format: 1 film reel (00:5:20 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: A variety of shots including: village scenes in Africa; New Yorkers emerging from a subway; and Digby fishing boats and fish flakes.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2101 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 68

Nigeria - Original Actually All Digby

Format: 1 film reel (00:6:30 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Many brief shots of fishing and fish plants, logging, boat-building activities; street scenes and churches and cemeteries in Digby County, N.S.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2099 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 66

Nigeria - A & B Original

Format: 1 film reel (00:5:30 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Variety of African scenes showing villages, Leighton's research team and recreational activities.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2066 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 42

Connor Bros. Footage

Format: 1 film reel (00:14:00 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Footage shot aboard a small fishing vessel while at sea. Also includes the exterior of the Connor Bros. Sardine Packing plant in Black's Harbour, New Brunswick; and various processes in canning sardines such as filleting and canning.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2076 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 52

Nigeria - Work Print Grey Washed

Format: 1 film reel (00:3:30 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Shots of villagers and researchers in Nigeria and of data being processed by computer.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2107 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 74

Stirling County - Introduction-J (African Footage)

Format: 1 film reel (00:12:10 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Footage shot in Africa mainly of village scenes and countryside.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2102 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 69

Stirling County - Seacoast Picnic and Boat Trip

Format: 1 film reel (00:8:30 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Shots of ferry boat, 'Princess Helene', during a crossing and at dockside; shots ofthe coastline of Digby Co. as viewed from a moving boat; and fishing by handline.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2048 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 36

Trip to Cornell University By Four Marshalltown Teenagers

Format: 1 film reel (00:15:30 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: A document of a visit of four teenagers [Kempton DEXTER, Wayne DOUCETTE, Brenda ROBICHEAU and Mona RYAN] from Digby, N.S., to Cornell University, Ithica, New York. Includes various shots of them touring the research lab and agricultural college.

Director: DEXTER, Kempton/ DOUCETTE, Wayne/ ROBICHEAU, Brenda/ RYAN,Mona
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2075 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 51

Airplane - Marshalltown

Format: 1 film reel (00:9:30 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Aerial shots of rural countryside, river, coastline, boats, farm, roads, churches [near Digby, N.S.].

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2040 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 28

Ocean Beach Huts Fish Nets Roll D

Format: 1 film reel (00:8:40 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Various shots of Dr. Leighton and his colleagues in Nigeria and scenes depicting aspects of village life (such as food preparation and fishing equipment).

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2067 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 43

Yoruba Country -Original Roll H

Format: 1 film reel (00:3:45 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Various brief segments including researchers doing paperwork; data being processed in a computer; small boat on a river (Nigeria); and Nigerian men playing a backgammon-like game.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2071 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 47

Yoruba Country - Original Trim G

Format: 1 film reel (00:2:45 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Various shots of Nigerian village life.

Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction until 2000.

Reference: Alexander Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1987-14 / Location no.: Fc 2070 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 46