Associated Screen News

Swimmers demonstrate synchronized swimming in a lake. The film tells the story of a sprite playing along the lake shore, who comes across the swimmers, who she thinks are mermaids. The sprite watches the swimmers and joins them in the water.

Old Dobbin talks about his flashy relatives, race horses, jumpers, fire horses, cavalry mounts.

Documentary on making locomotives.

A compilation of Canadian news stories from 1947 including: long skirts, a new look in women's fashion; scenes of a record snow storm; a representative group of Canadians receive the first Canadian citizenship certificates at the Supreme Court of Canada; 18-year-old Barbara Ann Scott in Ottawa after winning the amateur European and World figure skating championships and being presented the trophy by Governor General Viscount Alexander for defending her North American title; postage stamps that commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell including shots of his home in Brantford, Ontario; the Dominion Ski Championships at Mont Ste-Anne, Quebec with twins Rhoda and Rhona Wurtele of Montreal and Tom Mobraaten of Vancouver.

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.

A look at the Kwakiutl Indians of north Vancouver Island, prolific totem carvers. At Fort Rupert, George Hunt, in headress, carves a totem pole with an adze. He and his wife, in headband and blanket and an authority on traditional medicine and religion, perform a ritualistic dance. They are joined by other Indians in the dance which includes the use of ceremonial masks, drums, and rattles. Concert soprano and student of Indian lore, Juliette Gaultier de la Vérendrye, observes and practices the drums and chants. Mrs. Hunt is also seen making baskets, digging for clams, and gathering wild rice and carrots. Lucy Moor and her husband John Monkey arrive in a dugout canoe. Exceptional footage: commemorative totems at Fort Rupert, and a profile shot of Lucy Moon whose head is unnaturally elongated as a result of childhood binding

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.

What Hockey player do on their time off.

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.

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; etc.