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- The story of Ottawa, chosen from four sister cities by Queen Victoria to become the capital of Canada, and the proud possessor of the only Royal Court in North America, containing all the elements of a Cinderella romance. Film tells of Ottawa's growth from Bytown to government head for ten million people, tours the royal Mint, Canada's greatest money-making industry, and explores the stately city of today.
- The rural French Canadian way of life is observed on l'Ile-aux-Coudres, an island in the St. Lawrence River. The farmer grows food on his land. His family, from son to grandfather, gives him a helping hand. On Sunday, he rests and attends church with the other villagers. Many picturesque scenes of the countryside and of the harvest are shown. The monument on the site of Jacques Cartier's landing and worship on his second trip up the St. Lawrence is also shown.
- Film about the border between the United States and Canada, with emphasis on quirky aspects of the border such as communities that straddle the border. The film begins with a staged shot of women driving a car to the border and one talking about a cute customs officer, followed by a teacher pointing to the border on a globe. This is followed by images of the border from British Columbia to New Brunswick, showing boundary markers and geographic features that mark the boundary. There are visuals of: a golf club that is partly in the United States and partly in Canada; Oak Island, Minnesota; Windsor, Ontario; Detroit, Michigan; the neighboring communities of Rock Island, Quebec and Derbyline, Vermont, where the Opera House is partly in the United States and partly in Canada; Mrs. Corbeau, whose house is partly in each country and who had to obtain special permission from the Amercian government to move her pet parrot into the part of the house on American territory; Beebee Plain, Vermont, which has a post office right across the street form a post office on the Canadian side; hospitals in one country that treat people from the other country, such as Chipman Memorial Hospital in St. Stephen, New Brunswick; other things shared by St. Stephen and the neighboring community of Calais, Maine, including water being pumped at the waterworks in St. Stephen and then piped across the river, and the supply of gas used for cooking. The fire department serves both places. The legion band is sponsored by veterans' organizations of both countries and includes veterans carrying the Stars and Stripes and Union Jack as they march across a bridge from one country to the next.
- -This short documentary, considered the first French film at the NFB (National Film Board of Canada), tells the story of a young French Canadian who enlisted in the Royal 22nd. We follow him during the various phases of his training at the Valcartier camp (in Quebec), until he leaves for abroad.
- This documentary is about the training and duties of police dogs.
- Shots of seals on breeding grounds off the Labrador Coast. Seals of all sizes and ages are shown.
- A look at the events 1914, the year World War I started. Shots include: street scenes in Toronto at Bloor and Yonge streets; "daring women" paddling and bathing (resuscitation methods are shown); the construction of the first concrete highway in Canada (now called Queen Elizabeth Highway); cars using the highway for the first time along with horses and carriages; the interior of a department store; people coming out of church; a horse parade; the Orangemen parade of July 12; the construction of the Welland Canal; the announcement of war; soldiers parading and recruiting; female ambulance drivers; the Toronto Women's Patriotic League; Sam Hughes; soldiers at camp; and marching to embark.
- This documentary, narrated by Corey Thomson, is a compilation of unusual geographical facts about Canada: a Canadian desert, a river that cuts a tooth, a forest on an Ontario hillside that leads to a Scottish castle and the two Stanley Parks in Canada.
- Features current news items such as; a fire in Quebec which leaves 3000 homeless, major flooding in Manitoba, demonstrations by B.C. Doukhabors, the Navy and Airforce being dispatched to Korea, the University of New Brunswick's 150th anniversary, the Toronto vs. Winnipeg Grey Cup game and the first diesel engines used by the CNR.
- This documentary is a compilation of unusual facts about Canada. It includes trains which travel in air, eels which swim to the market, and a ship that keeps afloat with its bottom and sides full of holes. Narrator Corey Thomson gives explanations in this educational short.
- Action at the Canadian National Exhibition. Sequences include: statues and buildings; cars and other means of transportation; sporting events including the marathon swim and racing; the horse show; the Grand Stand Show; and a fireworks display.
- Comedian John Pratt demonstrating the "proper" way to ski.
- Spotlight on: the sound track; meals for the future; Gisèle McKenzie-Laflèche; and climbing up the Yoho Valley Switchback.
- The city of Toronto with monuments, the University, skyscrapers etc. Among the buildings shown are: government buildings; Queen's Park; and the residence of the lieutenant-governor. Also seen are downtown Toronto traffic scenes; the Toronto City Hall; pedestrians rushing past the camera; an empty street on Sunday; buildings of the University of Toronto; churches; the Princess Gate of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE); the other CNE buildings; crowds at the exhibition; Casa Loma; office towers; more aerial views of traffic and pedestrians; and an aerial view of the city skyline.
- Film about summertime leisure activities, including dinghy-racing, motorcycling, archery, fishing, swimming, and water skiing.
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police in training. The film shows: the RCMP training school in Regina, Saskatchewan; physical fitness training; training on horseback; marching; target practice; learning to track and to make plaster casts of tracks; the use of police dogs; classroom training in such subjects as criminal law; and learning more about evidence such as blood stains and bullets; marching band on graduation day; graduates marching; and flag-lowering ceremony.
- Documentary about skiing in the Rockies. It shows: skiers coming out of a lodge; attaching seal fur skins to skis to give traction for climbing; protecting eyes with sunglasses and skin with face cream; skiers with their guide; two skiers risking their safety by skiing without a guide; the guide racing to stop the two skiers from skiing over a precipice; the two skiers joining the group; and the skiers arriving at a cabin for a rest.
- A demonstration of ornamental swimming (now called synchronized swimming), by the Mermaid Swimming Club of Toronto. Groups of young women perform moves such as the "pinwheel" and the "clothespeg". Another group of swimmers then perform a well choreographed piece to the music of Swan Lake.
- Documentary about the Maoris of New Zealand, who are called distant cousins of the British Empire. It shows: men fishing; women wearing and making garments from a type of flax and trimming them with kiwi bird feathers; a young woman feeding an elder in observance with the Maori taboo that the food intended for chieftains and priests must never be touched by human hands; a man destroying the remnants of his meal by burning them; men performing a war dance with actuality of them chanting as they dance; women sitting on grass and watching the dance; special tools used to tattoo the men; priest tattooing a man's face and the man trying not to flinch from pain; women look on; Maori women doing a traditional dance that includes actuality of dancers singing and intricate movements with a small ball made from bull rushes; actuality of women talking as they make balls; a few people sit and watch the dance; women at hot springs and hot sands; women go swimming; one dives in as others talk and laugh; voiceover narration calls the women "carefree children of nature"; women swing on rope over water; one lets go and falls in; and shots of women swimming underwater.
- Stories on the following: the Reversing Falls at Saint John, New Brunswick; the Danish newspaper, the "Danish Herald", printed in a converted barn in Nova Scotia; a pet cemetery in Aurora, Ontario with a picture of the ghost of one of the dogs on a grave; migrating water fowl at Grant Lake, Manitoba with millions of birds arriving and departing; Montreal and the fact that it has a mountain in the city (Mount Royal), a city in a city (Westmount), and a two-block farm in the middle of the city; the switchback road in Yoho National Park with a road climbing a canyon wall allowing travel up and down; and the Gateway Golf Club in North Portal, Saskatchewan which is on the international boundary.
- Spotlight on: Collaiste Chaidhlig, the only Gaelic college in the world, which teaches Gaelic and bag pipes; the Leavy Twins, the 6-foot 10-inch identical twins Leo and Jack Leavy of Vancouver, the largest identical twins on record; two-fisted music as carillonneur Robert Donnell plays intricate music on the 53-bell Peace Tower carillon; and skiing cops with heavy ski traffic on Mount Royal is controlled by Montreal police on skis.
- An account of the various ways in which sixteen hockey stars spend their summers.
- A documentary film on fencing.
- Canadian headlines of 1951 including: census taking, showing a five-generation family in Oshawa; stock taking; Korean war footage; the 25th Brigade for Europe; civil defense; woman marching in civilian clothing; Dew Line operations with Vampire jets and Mustang fighters taking off; NATO meeting; session of Parliament; newspaper headlines proclaiming a rise in the cost of living; iron ore development in Quebec; oil tanker filling up at Lake Head; delegation from the US looking over the St. Lawrence Waterway in preparation for the planning of the Seaway; opening of the CBC building on Dorchester Avenue in Montreal with shots of the interior of the building and announcers at microphones; the Canadian Film Awards presentation with Mary Pickford and Ernest Ouimet appearing; sports with footage of Lionel Conacher, football, a hockey game between the Maple Leafs and the Canadiens, basketball, ski jumping, baseball, cricket, and a football game between the Ottawa Rough Riders and a western team; daredevils stunting with cars in a stadium; an ill-fated attempt by Red Hill Jr. at riding over Niagara Falls in a barrel showing the start of the stunt and ending with the barrel in ruins; and a visit by Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.
- Ski enthusiasts explore the various kinds of excitement.
- Old Dobbin talks about his flashy relatives, race horses, jumpers, fire horses, cavalry mounts.
- Associated Screen Studios' 'The Thousand Days' is a dramatic, impressionistic review of an historic one thousand days--since September 1939. You see Winston Churchill speaking to the Canadian Parliament, you see activities in the largest machine gun factory in the world (Canadian), factories producing shells, tanks, army vehicles.
- A rodeo in Macleod, Alberta. Shots include: cowboys rounding up wild horses and cattle on the prairies; street parade in Macleod featuring the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, native people in traditional dress on horseback; bucking bronco contest.
- Canal locks in Ontario. This film shows how a canal operates and its purposes. Five canals are used as examples: Canal Soulanges in the St. Lawrence system, the Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Fort Carling Canal in the Muskoka Lake District, the Trent Canal near Peterborough, and the Welland Canal in the Niagara area. Shots of boats going through.
- Duelling through the centuries forms a romantic background to this film about fencing.
- This documentary is about yachting and yacht competitions. The schooner Bluenose is shown being challenged by the American Gertrude L. Thebaud. The footage includes shots of the crew of the Bluenose at work and Captain Walters at the wheel.
- Footage of men and women fishing at an unidentified location. Shots include: fly fishing; casting from a canoe; shooting rapids in a canoe; catching, cooking, and eating fish; women posing for the camera with their catch; Indian guides taking fish out of the water and removing the hooks from their mouths; one shot of an unidentified train station.
- A young man (Robert John Pratt) joins a horse-riding academy to learn about riding a horse, but he finds it very different from the expectations he had before joining. He goes through incident after incident, one even more hilarious than the other.
- The word "bridge" brings visions to many people of a card game. To others, it may mean part of a violin, or even a set of false teeth. The picture then goes on to the kind of bridge one uses to get to the other side, and finds an amazing variety of ways to do it, from the simple cable bridge to the huge cantilever span of the Quebec Bridge.
- Growth in all aspects of Canadian life. Sequence on babies in maternity ward, immigrants arriving by ship, Newfoundland being welcomed into Canada. Governor General Alexander does the honors on Parliament Hill. Sequence on Birthday Celebrations: 200th in Halifax, 75th in Winnipeg, float parades and warships. Hotel Vancouver is shown being demolished. Ships are launched, the Avro jetliner takes to the air, the Toronto subway is begun and an atom smasher goes into operation in Montreal. In sports: largest crowd ever attends running of King's Plate in Toronto, Maple Leafs win Stanley Cup for third time, Allouettes defeat Calgary Stampeders. Sequence on Calgary Stampede. Shots of Miss Canada and Mr. Canada contests. Camera focuses on search for 6 year old boy; on the Noronic fire. Final sequence on election campaign and on Louis St-Laurent as Prime Minister.
- The Canadian Rockies in all their picturesque grandeur are featured in this travelogue narrated by Lamont Tilden. The spectacular alpine trails which parallel the "great divide" of Canada's Rocky range, are seen through the eyes of horse-back riders. They travel along the Yoho River, past the turbulent waters of the Kicking Horse River and on through Kicking Horse Pass itself. CPR steam train and automobiles follow the route up the "big hill" too, against the dramatic backdrop of mountain peaks and forests. Other noteworthy footage includes sequences of Lake Louise with Mount Victoria in the background; Bow River; and scenic glaciers, waterfalls and mountain steams.
- Film on prospectors and gold mines in the Northwest Territories. Shown are: new towns; the buildings and people of Yellowknife; farms and the vegetable harvest; automobiles on dirt roads; a DC-3 airliner landing at a small airport; and and lake freighter in port being unloaded. Sequences show: prospectors blasting for ore samples; the operation of a test rig; a red bush plane being loaded, taking off, arriving at a prospectors' camp, and being unloaded; and molten gold being poured out of a crucible and a gold ingot tumbling out of the mold.