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Introducing Canada Pt. 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221568-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1956

Country: Canada,France

Location: British Columbia,Caen,Canadian Arctic,Chalk Rive|,Kitimat,Montreal

TC Begins: 07:04:03

TC Ends: 07:14:05

Duration: 00:10:02

Introducing Canada Pt. 2 of 2 Man repairing or fixing bicycle. Portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh in studio (GOOD). Little girls ballet class. Village or small town, pan over rooftops. Military review parade. Street scene w/ soldiers on bicycles & traffic warden / police in booth. Mayor of Caen welcomes two Canadian soldiers & shows them ruins & newly named “Place du Canada” 07:05:22 Air show - Fighter jet planes fly overhead over airfield. NATO airmen in MCU. 07:05:43 Canadian Arctic - Aerials of clouds above mountain; isolated settlement in snowy landscape. Eskimos aka Inuits w/ husky sled dogs. Aerial NATO military base in Canadian Arctic - sleds & huskies at base. Troop train & lines of men into barracks. Aerial defense line w/ domes - interior domes & radar apparatus. Wind blowing ice & snow. Woman collecting data on weather. Men in store. Sending telegram? Inuit buying fur at shop. Buying food supplies. Native Canadians wearing animal skin coats. Dog sled race w/ huskies pulling sleds in snow. 07:07:55 Ice hockey game in large sports hall. Farmer chasing loose pig in snow (GAG). Industry: Bulldozer pulling large load on sled & helicopter airlifting supplies for aluminum plant in Kitimat, British Columbia. Ext. aluminum smelter. Model of St Lawrence River to guide builders of ocean vessel route, St. Lawrence Seaway. Oil pipeline wrapped & built. Interior of Chalk River atomic plant - beam therapy unit to treat patient (medicine). Students at neurologist Wilder Penfield lecture class. Surgeons operating - brain surgery. 07:10:25 Art & sculpture class. Kids painting. Children in class talking animatedly. Kids on slide. Ore carrier ship on calm sea or Great Lakes. Threshing machines. Top shot night city street (Montreal??). 07:11:25 Classical orchestra w/ harp solo. Salvation Army band & singers. Teenage girls putting on costume & makeup for theater production. Ballet w/ couple in cowboy costumes. Wrestling match. 07:12:09 Boxes & crates loaded into ships hold at night. Monks singing plain-chant. Calm sea at night; clouds at night. 4 motor commercial airliner landing at dawn. Man wipes his face w/ towel looking out of window. Ship leaves harbor. 07:13:07 Sheep & shepherd in mountains. Aerial four-leaf clover-shaped highway interchange. Railway yard. LS big city (Montreal) harbor with large ship underway. Globe. End credits. Ethnic Roots; Immigrants; Geography; North American Cultures; History; NATO; Daily Life 1950s; Economics; Geography; North American Defense; Medicine; Doctors; Scientists; Surgeons;

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