- Title: F-6608
- Summary: BORDER WITHOUT BAYONETTES: U.S. & CANADIAN BORDER
- Description:00:17:23 - MONTAGE UNFRIENDLY BORDERS. AERIAL OVER "DRAGON'S TEETH" BORDER. SOLDIERS, BAYONET RAISED 00:17:50 - SCHOOL CHILDREN PLAYING BALL IN FRONT OF GATES INSCRIPTION READS "MAY THESE GATES NEVER BE CLOSED". MONTAGE BOUNDARY BETWEEN US STATE OF WASHINGTON & CANADA. CU MONUMENT READING INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY UNITED STATES 00:18:12 - SCENIC NATURE BEAUTY SHOTS, CANADIAN US BORDER SMALL FERRY CARRYING CAR & PEOPLE. UNFORTIFIED BOUNDARIES BETWEEN COUNTRIES 00:18:20 - FORT NIAGARA, OLD FORTRESS. FORT ERIE. ARMED SENTRY KEEPING GUARD IN FRONT OF ENTRANCE. CANNONS 00:18:46 - INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION MEETING BETWEEN US & CANADA. CIRCA 1947. CU HANDSHAKE 00:19:06 - AERIAL OVER COAST BORDER BETWEEN CANADA & US 00:19:23 - WORKERS MAINTAINING BORDER, CLEARING TREES, BRUSH 00:19:40 - POV IN BOAT GOING UNDER FOOT BRIDGE, SUSPENSION BRIDGE 00:20:02 - INTERNATIONAL BORDER LINE, US CUSTOMS & IMMIGRATION. RAILROAD CROSSING IN BOTH FRENCH & ENGLISH. CROSSING IN CAR, TRUCK, RAILROAD. WELCOME TO CANADA SIGN 00:20:25 - SUSPENSION BRIDGE SPANNING US TO CANADA 00:20:32 - BORDER TOLL BOOTHS, CARS STOPED BY CUSTOMS, IMMIGRATION WORKERS. TRAVELER OPENS CAR TRUNK FOR INSPECTIONS. TOURISTS GETTING INTO BOATS 00:21:12 - INSPECTOR IN CANADA GIVES SIGNAL TO INSPECTOR IN US THAT TOURISTS ARE ON THE WAY, ROLLS DOWN SHADE ON OUTSIDE OF WINDOW, NON VERBAL COMMUNICATION. US INSPECTOR LOOKING THRU BINOCULARS. CROSSING BORDER BY BOAT 00:21:37 - RADIO TOWER. ROYAL MOUNTED CANADIAN POLICE RADIO TO UNITED STATES BORDER PATROL ALERTING FUGITIVE ON THE RUN 00:22:05 - CANADIAN FARMER APPROACHED BY STRANGERS, BRINGS IN HIS KITCHEN, WIFE ALERTS BORDER PATROL OF FUGITIVES, ARRESTED & TAKEN BACK TO THE BORDER OF CANADA. BORDER COOPERATION 00:23:40 - MONTAGE MONTREAL AIRPORT. US & CANADIAN AIR MAIL PLANE 00:24:05 - HELICOPTER POV OVER TRADE SHIPS COMING & GOING ALONG BORDER CANAL 00:24:25 - NIAGARA RIVER HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT 00:24:52 - QUEBEC FARMING VILLAGE, OLD WORLD FARMING, COW PULLING CART, LARGE DOG PULLING COUPLE IN SMALL TWO WHEELED CART. FARMERS GATHERING HAY WITH PITCHFORKS 00:25:25 - MODERN MACHINERY COMBINES HARVESTING GRAIN 00:25:42 - LS PAN TORONTO CITY MONTAGE TORONTO CITY, BUILDINGS, PEDESTRIANS, SHOPS, RESTAURANTS MAGAZINE SHOPS, FRENCH & ENGLISH 00:26:45 - MONTAGE BASEBALL GAME, CANADA, ROYALS 00:27:11 - CU CANADIAN FAN EATING HOT DOG, DRESSED IN TARTAN 00:27:15 - ICE HOCKEY GAME, FIGHT BREAKS OUT ON ICE 00:27:42 - CU PLAQUE BETWEEN AMERICAN & CANADIAN BORDERS 00:27:50 - MAINE / NEW BRUNSWICK BORDER TOWNS, CALAIS & ST. STEPHEN. 00:28:18 - PEDESTRIANS GOING BACK & FORTH BETWEEN CANADA & UNITED STATES ON FOOT BRIDGE. DOG CROSSING BORDER 00:28:36 - CHILDREN JUMPING FROM BRIDGE INTO WATER AT INTERNATIONAL BORDER 00:28:47 - HOSPITAL AT ST. STEPHAN NEWBORN BABIES MATERNITY WARD. AMERICAN BABIES BORN IN CANADA 00:29:09 - MAINE FIREFIGHTERS CROSSING INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE INTO CANADA. EMERGENCY WORKERS 00:29:30 - CANADIAN & AMERICAN SOLDIERS MARCHING TOGETHER ACROSS INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE 00:29:50 - BORDER TOWN IN DERBY LINE, VERMONT. MAN IN BARBER SHOP RIGHT ON BORDER, HAIR CUT & SHOE SHINE 00:30:09 - SHOP RIGHT ON BORDER WITH SIGN IN MIDDLE OF STORE, UNITED STATES & CANADA. NORTON, VERMONT & STANHOPE, QUEBEC 00:30:36 - HIGHWAY SPLIT IN MIDDLE BY CANADA & US TWO CARS STOP & WAVE 00:30:47 - HOUSE ON CANADIAN & AMERICAN BORDERS, SPLIT DOWN THE MIDDLE. ROCK ISLAND & DERBY LINE 00:31:05 - MAIL MEN DELIVERING MAIL ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER 00:31:19 - MAN'S HOUSE ON BORDER, ANSWERS TELEPHONE IN CANADA. HALF OF HOUSE IN CANADA, HALF IN U. S. 00:31:52 - HONEYMOONERS, NEWLYWEDS HAVING PORTRAIT TAKEN WITH MURAL OF NIAGARA FALLS IN B/G 00:32:02 - MONTAGE NIAGARA FALLS, TOURISTS, RIVERBOAT, HORSESHOE FALLS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1947
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: F-6608