NFB Collection
Trans-Canada Express
19449 min 44 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Stanley Hawes
Production: Sydney Newman
A survey of the 25 000 miles of territory linked by Canada's railroads in tribute to the railroad's contribution to the war effort. Included is a sequence from Buster Keaton's The General, as well as a re-enactment of Lord Strathcona driving the final spike into the Canadian Pacific Railway Line.
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Subject categories
- Canada - Images of a Country > Economic DevelopmentHistorical PerspectivesLandscapes
- Transportation > Historical PerspectivesRailways
- War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films > Home FrontIndustrial Development
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Transportation
- Civics/Citizenship > Citizen Responsibilities
- History and Citizenship Education > Culture and Currents of Thought (1500-present)
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Feminism
Credits
- director
- Stanley Hawes
- producer
- Sydney Newman
- camera
- Donald Fraser
- narrator
- Lorne Greene
- music
- Louis Applebaum