Film Record: Fox Hunting in Canada

Identifier:

• 115005 (Source: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/film-video-sound-database/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=115005)

Date produced: 1949

Filmmaker(s):

A. D. Kean

Country of Production:

Canada

Languages:

English inter-titles

Duration:

00:15:10

Length:

408 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

The opening inter-title displays the old logo for Kean’s Canada Films (Kean's Vancouver production company and film exchange, 1914-1924) with the added text "The Oldest Trade Name in Canadian Movies, West 1912-1949 East."

Description:

In the final film completed by pioneer BC filmmaker A.D. "Cowboy" Kean, the Toronto-North York Hunt club is seen on a fox hunt in Ontario's Humber Valley.

Resources:

Information from researcher Dennis J. Duffy.

Locations:

• Humber Valley, Ontario (Filming)

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Library and Archives Canada (original); BC Archives/Royal BC Museum (video copies)

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