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

Nova Scotia Archives Film Holdings Database

Omar Blondell

Format: 1 film reel (00:29:24 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Omar Blondell sings sea songs.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1765 Supplemental information no.: Mf259-10

Folk Songs With Ed McCurdy

Format: 3 film reels (00:40:00 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Ed MCCURDY sings folk songs. Title may be for a series.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1762- 1764 Supplemental information no.: Mf259-09

Atlantic Cable Ceremony

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

Note: The convention hall in the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa where officials and guests gather for the official opening of the first link in the transatlantic cable by her Majesty, the Queen. The Prime Minister John DIEFENBAKER receives the official telephone call from the queen from her home in London before official opening.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 2122 Supplemental information no.: Mf261-29

John Rankin

Format: 16 mm : b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: John RANKIN, PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER WITH AIR CANADA, DISCUSSES THE REORGANIZATION OF IT'S OPERATIONS AT HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: FB 245 Supplemental information no.: MF 196 - 84

Folk Songs With Ed MacCurdy

Format: Film reels (00:13:27 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Ed MCCURDY introduces and sings folk songs to his own guitar accompaniment. (Also includes promo for 'BRINGING UP BUDDY'.)

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1764 Supplemental information no.: Mf259-9

Cholera Scare of 1866

Format: 2 film reels (00:2:04 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A brief account of the cholera scare in Nova Scotia in 1866.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1819- 1820 Supplemental information no.: Mf261-15

Festival of The Arts - Tatamagouche

Format: 16 mm : b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A visit to Nova Scotia's Tatamagouche Festival of the Arts.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 154 Supplemental information no.: Mf196-37

Visit to McNab's Island Lighthouse

Format: 1 film reel (00:06:20 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Don CROWDIS visits McNab's Island lighthouse and aerial footage of Sambro lighthouse and lightship.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1036 Supplemental information no.: Mf221-44

Folk Songs With Ed MacCurdy

Format: Film reels (00:13:28 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Ed MCCURDY introduces and sings folk songs to his own guitar accompaniment. (Also includes promo for 'WORLD OF SPORT'.)

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1763 Supplemental information no.: Mf259-9

Bounty In Tahiti

Format: 1 film reel (00:29:25 hrs.)
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A documentary about the ship Bounty in Tahiti where the MGM motion picture remake of the classic 'Munity on the Bounty' was filmed. This programme looks at the life aboard the Bounty for those who sail her. Captain Ellsworth COGGINS talks about the journey of the ship which was built in Lunenburg, N.S.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives 1989-57 / Location no.: Fb 2400 Supplemental information no.: Mf262-55

Five Dollar Tour

Format: 16 mm : b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: A YOUNG MAN AND WOMAN TOUR DARTMOUTH AND HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA INCLUDING THE HALIFAX PUBLIC GARDENS, THE CITADEL (HALIFAX) AND THE NORTHWEST ARM (HALIFAX).

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: FB 155 Supplemental information no.: MF 196 - 38

Ten Mile House

Format: 1 film reel : b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Interior and exterior shots of Ten Mile House at Bedford, Nova Scotia.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 277 Supplemental information no.: Mf 196 - 105

Captain Goode

Format: 16 mm : b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: ITEM ON CAPTAIN ROBERT Goode ABOUT HIS MILITARY CAREER. (SEE ALSO FILM 'CAPTAIN GOODE PART TWO').

Production Company: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Access: Open for consultation; written permission required from donor for use or reproduction. Fb 165: CLOSED: conservation

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 161- 172 Supplemental information no.: MF 196 - 40

Folk Songs With Ed MacCurdy

Format: Film reels (00:13:29 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Ed MCCURDY introduces and sings folk songs to his own guitar accompaniment. (Also includes promo for series 'DANGER MAN'.

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1762 Supplemental information no.: Mf259-9

Singalong Jubilee

Format: 1 film reel (00:28:03 hrs.) : sound, b&w
Filmmaker: CBC Television

Note: Host Bill LANGSTROTH and the Jubilee Singers sing folk songs. [Guest may have been Bud SPENCER.]

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

Reference: CBC Television Nova Scotia Archives Location no.: Fb 1658 Supplemental information no.: Mf255-1