I am presenting three films that I came across during my research in one of my videos;
D-Day Discoveries: : D-Day Camera at the Ingenium Museum in Ottawa
Having had the privilege of working at Library & Archives Canada as a Senior Film Conservator, I was able to view many of the films regarding Canada’s history during WWII and Korea. In my effort to locate films that could possibly have been used by a 16mm Bell & Howell camera, I came across these three films;
I present them here as they were stored on the shelves. With little to go on as to who deposited the films, and very little to assign a camera type, other than they were all on 16mm. Enjoy.
CREDIT: Library & Archives Canada
IDCISN: 23988
MEDIA : F
TITLE : Invasion of Europe 1944
PRTSCT: 1 of 1
PRDDTE: 1944
DNRORG: 070 RCN-501-KODA
SBJDSC: Landing ships and craft of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division marshalling area about the Isle of Wight. The crossing with troops of the Highland Light Infantry of Canada. Barrage Balloons. The 9th Brigade (consisting of HLI, the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders and the north Nova Scotia Highlanders) in reserve, landing at BerniËres at approximately 11:45 am 6 June 1944. In the assault the 7th and 8th Brigade landed at approx 9 am on 9 June 1944 and fought through to 4 miles north of Caen. Landing craft 163-270, 262-306, 281, 276 are seen.
IDCISN: 23989
MEDIA : F
TITLE : With the 25th Brigade in Korea 1952
SBJDSC: Shots of: the Australian infantry with a Centurion tank; a US army Brigadier General, a British tank major, an Australian officer, and a Royal Canadian Horse Artillery major meeting; 2Bn R22eR line laying party setting out with Korean porters; and the 2bn Royal Vingt-deuxième Régiment moves forward into position.
LANG : Silent
COPSTA: Copyright expired.
RESREP: No donor restrictions. / COLLNA: UNIDENTIFIED / ACINUM: 1973-0141 / RSTCOD: restricted by creator/donor.
IDCISN: 219462
MEDIA : F
TITLE : [D-Day]
PRTSCT: 1 of 1
PRDRSP: Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit
PRDCTY: cn
SBJDSC: <15mn>
LANG : Silent
NOTES : 1. Crown material over 50 years – copyright expired. CLEAR : A
COPSTA: Copyright expired.
RESREP: No donor restrictions.
A_AREA: Film and Broadcasting Archives
T990 : 189408
COLLNA: MCQUAID, Peter ACINUM: 1969-0055 RSTCOD: open
© Dale Gervais 2024
Hi Dale. You’re doing great work. Thanks for posting all this footage. I’m sure people have already told you that the colour footage of the 262nd LCI’s is not D Day but Exercise Fabius in May of 1944. When I was in Archives in October and looking at the Milne negatives I saw that he has quite a few photos of this exercise. I’m pretty sure it isn’t him doing the film because he was on 135 which had NNSH on it. Perhaps Beddoe?
As for the black and white film, I can see LCI 121 in drydock in Portsmouth. According to “The Royal Candian Navy’s Part in the Invasion” Directorate of History DND, she was badly damaged and was “under repair” as of June 14.
Keep doing what you’re doing. I’m loving it.
BTW. Got to thank you for turning me (by way of Glenn Warner) on to the LCI 135 colour film held at NFB. Since I last emailed you I got hold of some of the children of the crew members of 135 and told them that their fathers are in the film. One of them, Sharon McGowan, a film instructor in Vancouver had already been making a film about her father-in-law’s time on 135. She had filmed interviews with him before he died and the NFB film was an excellent complement to the film.
Hi Mark – thank you very much! Yes, I was told by my colleague, Ben Moogk, that the Invasion of Europe material might have been an exercise. Still, after all these years, it’s great to see faces of the men that would eventually make their way to Normandy. It really warms me to hear when others can connect themselves with relatives in the films. The b&w footage still intrigues me – German prisoners on the beach – I need to do more search but the RCN code on the film leader obviously ties it to the Canadian Navy – there are so many men & women of the photo units that go without credit. Thanks again Mark for taking the time to send me the comment. Means a lot to me. Dale.