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- Newsreel footage of Canadian headlines. Shots include: a spectacular fire in Hull, Quebec which destroyed the Interprovincial Bridge; Dionne Quintuplets in Grade Five; Operation Musk-Ox; spy ring uncovered by the RCMP; Barbara Ann Scott skating at championship; highlights of a Boston Bruins versus Montreal Canadiens hockey game as they battle for the Stanley Cup; Canada's New Governor General greeted by King; 67th running of the King's Plate horse race at Woodbine race track; Vancouver, British Columbia celebrates its Diamond Jubilee; hurricane strikes Windsor, Ontario; HMCS Warrior in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Boy Scouts and Girl Guides gathering; Hamilton, Oontario celebrates its Centennial; beauty pageant; boats racing at Canadian Speed Boat Championship; British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery laying a wreath at the War Memorial in Ottawa and meeting veterans there; Grey Cup Parade in Toronto; and highlights of the Grey Cup game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
- The fourth and final game in the 1933 playoffs for the Stanley Cup played at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. The match, between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers, is described by the well-known sports commentator Foster Hewitt. Hewitt also interviews the players and coaches of both teams in their respective dressing rooms. Scoreless at the end of regulation time, the game goes into overtime: now the first goal scored will decide the game. The Rangers score to take the Cup.
- 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.
- Shots of seals on breeding grounds off the Labrador Coast. Seals of all sizes and ages are shown.
- -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.
- 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.
- A sample look at discipline at the Royal Military College. The emphasis is on precision gymnastics displays, ceremonial battalion marches in full uniform, and the changing of the sentry demonstrated by gentlemen cadets of the College. Seen is the exterior of the RMC buildings (the Stone Cricket).
- Ski enthusiasts explore the various kinds of excitement.
- Comedian John Pratt demonstrating the "proper" way to ski.
- Old Dobbin talks about his flashy relatives, race horses, jumpers, fire horses, cavalry mounts.
- Film promoting the natural beauty of Banff National Park. Footage includes: tourists hiking in the Rocky Mountains; playing golf; canoeing; taking a chair lift to the top; shots of various animals such as the mountain goat, deer, beaver, moose, coyote, sheep, and black bear.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 documentary is about the training and duties of police dogs.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.