Canadian Carnival

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1762A

Date Released

14 Mar 1963

Date submitted

9 Mar 1963

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Rugby - Historic Victory for Ireland
2. 2Canadian Carnival
3. 3Snapping the Satellites
4. 4With the Queen in Australia (Colour)

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Canadian Carnival. DESCRIPTION: The historic city of Quebec recently held it’s Winter carnival. The famous canoe race across the frozen St. Lawrence and back, a distance of some two miles. A carnival isn’t a carnival without floats and fancy-dress parades. More than 300,000 people lined the streets as the three weeks of festivity reached their climax. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV model covered in snow. People in horse-drawn sleighs (2 shots). GV pan start of canoe race across ice. Race in progress (3 shots). MS crowd. Men pushing canoes across ice (2 shots). GV men in canoes across water and ice, women parading (2 shots). MS crowd. MS float with fireworks. MS float with dragon, float with snowmen (2 shots). GV float past camera.

Keywords

Sport; Entertainment and leisure; Competitions; Celebrations and festivals

Locations

Quebec; Canada

Footage sources

National Film Board of Canada

Card file number

86208

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

116

Story extras:

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