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  1. Champlain (196 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An impression of the life of one of the founders of French Canada. There is no re-enacting in the film, only a mixture of recent photography of scenery and people.

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  2. Four Families (1959 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Dr Margaret Mead discusses how the upbringing of children contributes to a distinctive national character. Bathing a baby in four continents. An on-the-spot comparison of family life in India, France, Japan...

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  3. Refining Copper from the Sudbury Nickel Ores (1959 Film)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Detailed description of the refining of copper from the relatively crude 97% pure blister copper to the electrolytically refined copper of 99.97% purity.

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  4. Refining Nickel from the Sudbury Ores (1957 Film)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Explains the purpose of refining and shows some of the principles involved. Surveys electrolytic and Mond Carbonyl methods of nickel refining on the large scale necessary to obtain the great quantities of...

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  5. Settler, The (1953 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The development of the Abitibi region of northern Quebec by settlers, who, in the 1930s fled the depression-stricken St Lawrence lowlands to carve homesteads out of the wilderness. Recounts their hardships...

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  6. Clouded Dawn, The (195 Film)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    August 1945-46: Japan surrenders. World War II is over, and Canadian prisoners are released from Japanese war camps. In Canada, as elsewhere, the task of rehabilitation begins. In Ottawa the Gouzenko case...

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  7. Loon’s Necklace, The (1948 Film)

    Director
    Budge Crawley
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A North American Indian legend, retold through the dramatic use of ancient carved masks.

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  8. Nanook of the North (1922 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A study of the Eskimos of Ungava in the Cape Dufferin area of the Hudson Bay Territory of northern Canada. A detailed description of the constant battle with a hostile environment; accounts of walrus and...

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  9. Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow (Television)

    aka: Behind the Blow

    Director
    Trey Parker
    Producer
    Frank C. II Agnone
    Subject
    Drama

    Television animated satirical comedy series. The kids from South Park travel to see Philip (who is Canadian) perform Hamlet (V ii) at ‘The Canadian Shakespeare Festival’ (a reference to the Stratford...

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  10. Royal Canadian Air Farce (Multimedia, Radio)

    A selection of audio clips performed by Canadian Air Farce and presented on the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare website (CASP). They offer comedic representations of Shakespeare in relation to Canadian...

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