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

Nova Scotia Archives Film Holdings Database

Marshalltown Church/Card Playing

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

Note: Shots of people involved in leisure activities in Digby, N.S. including dancing and at a church card party. Also includes footage of factory workers outside the Shaw and Gidney Ltd. Fresh Fish Plant; a roadside canteen; short-order cook, customers, etc in small restaurant; and a house party.

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 2042 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 30

Lumber -Dupe S-V no. 1

Format: 1 film reel (00:16:30 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Primarily footage of the lumbering industry in Digby County including trees being felled; horses hauling logs; a lumber mill; and processing logs at a sawmill. Also includes shots of fish processing at Casey Fisheries; the exterior of Digby High School; and a print shop.

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 2092 Duplication no.: Fc 2091 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 59

Lund - All Cornell Dupe no. 2

Format: 1 film reel (00:5:40 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Shots of Dr Leighton and various colleagues involved in office and paper work. Close-ups on work in progress including maps charting geographical areas of study.

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 2024 Duplication no.: Fc 2023 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 12

Lund - Duplicate Work Print

Format: 1 film reel (00:11:30 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: A record of a trip to [Holland] by Dr Leighton and some colleagues. Various shots of town and city streets, buildings and rural countryside. Several segments show a researcher conducting interviews.

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 2022 Duplication no.: Fc 2021 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 10

Introduction to Stirling County - Original Not Used In Final Version

Format: 1 film reel (00:17:20 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: A wide variety of fairly brief segments taken in and around Digby, NS including: the ferry, Princess of Acadia; street scenes; oxen plowing; woodlot in winter; fishing boats; architectural details of buildings; fish plant; lumber mill; and print shop operations.

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 2087 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 54

Lund - Rand-Cornell Original no. 2

Format: 1 film reel (00:5:45 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Shots of Dr Leighton and various colleagues involved in office and paper work. Close-ups on work in progress including maps charting geographical areas of study.

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 2023 Duplication no.: Fc 2024 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 11

Digby S-L 1

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

Note: Various shots related to logging in Digby County including stacked cordwood and chopping trees. Cargo ship 'Werretal' is shown at sea.

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 2033 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 21

Digby Spastic Cattle

Format: 1 film reel (00:6:20 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Various shots of community activities [near Digby, N.S.] including a 'guides' meet; a parade of decorated floats; a country fair with an ox pull, baseball game and barbeque; and a nurses graduation ceremony.

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 2035 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 23

Digby S-E no. 4 Nurses Grad / Logging

Format: 1 film reel (00:6:50 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Various shots of rural scenes, a class of nurses, lumbering activity (chopping and stacking cordwood) and large boat 'Werretal' at sea and dockside.

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 2030 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 18

Digby County S-E no. 3 & 4 & 5

Format: 1 film reel (00:8:15 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Various shots of agriculture in Digby County including plowing with oxen; children involved in recreational activities including swimming lessons; Maud and Evertt Lewis outside their house and close-ups of her paintings; and strawberry pickers in a field.

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 2031 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 19

Digby County Original Curw

Format: 1 film reel (00:26:40 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Mostly street scenes of Digby's commercial district shot during the summer. Includes children involved in directed play activity; dredging in Digby Harbour; farming; construction; wooden boat-building; mink farming and three-masted schooner, Flying Cloud.

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 2089 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 56

Digby Co. Orig. S-R-4

Format: 1 film reel (00:7:15 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Various shots including: a small car ferry; a fish processing plant (showing filleting and packing); and various aspects of the logging industry including horses hauling lumber.

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 2044 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 32

Digby Co. S-R no. 3 - Original

Format: 1 film reel (00:5:15 hrs.) : silent, colour
Filmmaker: Alexander Leighton

Note: Shot of photograph of 1964 grade 12 graduates. Various shots of 'Princess of Acadia' arriving at dock and later departing. Brief shots of oxen plowing field and men splitting firewood.

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 2028 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 16

Digby - Aerial General S-A no. 1

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

Note: Close-ups of a detailed map of Digby County, the community of Bear River is circled. Various aerial views of rural areas, coastline and the Town of Digby. Shots of a small airplane on a runway.

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 2032 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 20

Marshalltown - Social Activities

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

Note: A variety of shots of people Digby, N.S. involved in a number of activities such as: a short-order cook in a roadside restaurant; a house party; a card social; and a nurses [graduation ceremony]. Also includes building exteriors and Maud LEWIS and her paintings.

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 2043 Supplemental information no.: Mf360- 31