Queen is Not Coming

Mostly silent. Various footage: Laying of cornerstone at St. John's Ambulance building, Victoria BC; student displays a letter from the Astronomical Council of the USSR and enclosed picture of the moon; laying asphalt at Cook and Quadra Streets; printer and inventor Leonard Lawrence Marraffino in Mt. Vernon NY, and his invention of striped toothpaste; welcome ceremony of U.C.T. delegates; Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse, where a woman in period dress displays home arrangements of the 19th century; Chibougamau, QC, landscapes and town scenes, including local businesses and gravel manufacturing; military inspection; British American Dealer gas station; man receives award in Empress Hotel, Victoria, B.C.

In Collection:

• Karl Spreitz Collection

Creator

• Spreitz, Karl, 1927-2016

Subject

• Service stations
• Infantry drill and tactics
• Nineteenth century
• Astronomy
• Pavements, Asphalt
• Toothpaste
• Marraffino, Leonard Lawrence
• Sand and gravel industry

Language

• eng

Identifier

• U998.41.15/04

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 00:11:50

Geographic Coverage

• New York (State)--Mount Vernon (Westchester County)
• British Columbia--Victoria
• Québec--Chibougamau

Coordinates

• 40.9126,-73.83708
• 48.4359,-123.35155
• 49.91684,-74.36586

Additional physical characteristics

• 16 mm

Physical Repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Karl Spreitz Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitized through the support of the BC History Digitization Program, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia.

Genre

• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• black-and-white films (visual works)
• short subjects
• silent films

Archival item identifier

• U998.41.154

Fonds title

• Karl Spreitz fonds

Fonds identifier

• SC570

Is referenced by

• https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/karl-spreitz-fonds

Date digitized

• November 13, 2020

Technical note

• Metadata by KH.

Rights

• Contact Special Collections and University Archives for access to textual records and photographs [or archival fonds] and reproduction requests; due to preservation concerns, access to original motion picture film and other audio visual formats is not permitted. This material is made available on this site for research and private study only.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/1mme-0y18