Film Record: Toronto’s Royal Day

Identifier:

• F 4582-1-0-4 (Source: http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/ARCH_LISTINGS/LISTINGS_DET_REP/SISN%201361858?SESSIONSEARCH)
• 1983-0342 (Source: Library and Archives Canada)

Date produced: 1939

Production credits:

• Narcisse Pelletier, Photographer
• Dr. A. I. Willinsky, Photographer

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:12:00

Length:

420 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Archives of Ontario list of titled amateur films

Description:

"Film documents the Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Toronto May 22, 1939. Film shows the royal party traveling through the city and at various locations including Union Station, City Hall, Queen's Park, and Exhibition Place. The Toronto Movie Club presents the film, which was shot by over 25 club members staged at different locations. "The Toronto Movie Club : Its first fifty years, 1934-1984" pp. 14, 15, provides additional details about this film including the fact that many copies of the film were sold and one copy was presented to the King and Queen." Archives of Ontario.

Resources:

Tepperman, Charles. Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960. University of California Press, 2014, pp.178, 284.
The Library and Archives Canada listing of the film contains detailed production credits. It is located in their Charles Percy Roberts fonds.

Locations:

• Toronto, Ontario (Filming)

Club Affiliation:

Toronto Amateur Movie Club

Subjects:

• North America
•      Canada

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Toronto Film and Video Club fonds, Archives of Ontario

Screenings:

• Screened by the Winnipeg Cine Club at "an amateur movie show ... in aid of the Lord Mayor's fund for [London] bomb victims," December 12, 1940. (Winnipeg Tribune, Dececember 10 1940, p. 7): Winnipeg, Manitoba

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