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- "The Canadian Pacific's limited mail train running at high speed."
- "Taken at the terminal of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, showing a large number of Chinamen who have made their fortunes in America, starting on the return trip across the Pacific. They carry their possessions in large bundles, and together form a very odd company."
- "The Canadian Pacific Railroad's Trans-Pacific liner, leaving Vancouver at sunset. This picture is notable for its magnificent cloud effects."
- A procession of marching members of Labor Societies in uniform characteristic of their trades, headed by bands and banners, while many floats of elaborate design, bearing machinery in motion, manufacturing processes in operation, and others representing various trades, are drawn past the camera by teams of four, six and eight horses each.
- A lively scene among the fishing fleet on the Fraser River during the salmon season, showing hundreds of salmon struggling in the nets as these are drawn to the surface and finally emptied of their contents.
- The Pride of the Pacific Fleet of the Canadian Pacific Railway is seen approaching the camera at full speed, the progress of this liner being followed by means of our rotary tripod, thus giving a splendid view of the steamship plowing through the waters until it passes out of the picture.
- Mrs. Knox loves her husband. James Knox, and Clara Jones dearly loves her husband, Henry Jones, and it might be well to add that both husbands loved their dear little wives. But the "Charmer," ah! there's where the trouble lies! Who is the "Charmer"? Mrs. Knox discovers a strange hair upon Mr. Knox's coat, where it had conveniently been placed by a practical joker, also a telegram to the effect that her husband is to sail with the "Charmer" at ten, and that he need not meet her husband, Jones. The green-eyed monster at once proceeds to grow larger and larger, and she rushes down to the boat, but it is far out to sea. She immediately proceeds to inform Mr. Jones that his wife has eloped with her husband. This sets Jones in a whirl and he at once hires a tug, and with Mrs. Knox sails away to capture the villain Knox and his supposed unfaithful wife, Mrs. Jones. But ere this has all transpired, Mrs. Jones, who has all the time been safely on shore, discovers her husband, Jones, running away on a tug with Mrs. Knox. She at once sends Mr. Knox a wireless to the effect that Mr. Jones has run away with his wife, Mrs. Knox, and mistakes pile upon mistakes until the four curious people arrive at the ship's husband's office, where the mystery is all cleared up. "The Charmer" is the name of the boat that Knox sailed away on, and the "husband" is none other than Mr. Jones, himself.
- The "Cowpuncher's Glove" is only another chapter in his life that is well worth reading. We are first introduced to the western home of a father and daughter. The cowpuncher enters, and we can easily see that his heart is set upon winning the girl's affection in any way that is possible; but the girl evidently has other views upon the subject, as she does not seem particularly overjoyed at his behavior, although her father practically promises her hand in marriage upon the cowpuncher's return from the roundup. Here we are shown a glimpse of the roundup, and in the next scene we are acquainted with the fact that Jim, the cowpuncher, has not been entirely honest in his dealings and now stands in a fair way of having his neck stretched from the branch of a cedar tree by a lynching gang before morning. This information is communicated to another cowboy by his finding of a glove outside of the county jail window, in which glove is a note from the prisoner imploring the finder, in the name of mercy, to give him a chance to start life over again and be honest. The stranger does not know the culprit, nor has he an opportunity of seeing him, but moved by the appeal for help he takes the chance, and succeeds in securing the keys of the jail and throwing them in through the barred window to Jim without either man seeing the other. The only reward he has for his service is the pair of gloves, which are initialed, in which he found the note. Slipping them into his pocket he passes on into the night while Jim, a few moments later, makes his escape without knowing whom or what his benefactor was like. The cowboy who assisted in Jim's escape afterwards meets the girl of the first scene and wins her love. He does not know that her father has promised her in marriage to Jim until he sees a letter from the latter in which he threatens to come and take her away for his wife that very night. The young lover decides to head off his plan, and the two men meet on a swinging bridge over a dangerous chasm. Here ensues another Edison thriller in the way of a desperate fight, which only terminates when Jim discovers his glove in the possession of his antagonist and the truth is revealed to him that this is the man who saved his life from the lynching gang. The lovers are united, and the audience will be found laughing at the quaint situation at the close.
- A love triangle set against the turn-of-the-century gold rush.
- Private detective Donegal Dawn, is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown, and scoffs at the official ruling on tong-killings. His friend, Robert Rand, has has fallen for Zenobia, a clerk at Chan Tow Ling;s curio shop. Dawn tells Robert that their live would be in peril if he tries to take Zenobia away from Chinatown. That night, Robert breaks into the shop's cellar where he hears strange music and voices, and sees a weird ceremony in which (the mesmerized) Zenobia officiates as a priestess. Robert is captured by the worshipers. Dawn tracks the sinister "Order of the Black Rober" but can not find a trace of Robert, Zenobia or the cultists.
- An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive brother.
- A visit to the capital of British Columbia (Victoria) and to its largest city (Vancouver).
- One of the two dozen or more Canadian-produced (usually by Kenneth J. Bishop) films distributed by Columbia circa 1935-39 in order to comply with (and circumvent) the British-Quota Law that basically required a large percentage of the cast and crew of a small percentage of the total films distributed by American film companies to the UK had to be comprised of British subjects and shot on British or Dominion soil.Distributing the Bishop-Canadian made films was cheaper for Columbia than building and maintaining a studio in London.Since Charles Starrett and stunt man Ted Mapes were about the only people connected to this film that currently or in the past weren't subjects of HRM, this film more than qualified.In this one, RCMP Alan Barclay (Charles Starrett)) is sent to investigate the presumed murder of his friend and fellow RCMPoliceman Gene (Henry Mollison)) when Gene's horse is found riderless or, in the words of French-born western director George Archainbaud, "empty." Gene had been sent to St.John's to investigate a series of accidents which threatened to close down the lumber mill.Undercover, Alan asks for a job at the mill and hears of an accident which has killed four men. He suspects Barstow (J.P. McGowan), the camp blacksmith, who welded the chain that broke and sent the men to their death. Alan convinces Barstow that he is a fugitive from justice, and would do anything for a job. Barstow gives Alan a Mountie's uniform and tells him he is to pose as a Mountie (good plan) sent to investigate the accident. Ordinarily, at this point, the jig would be up but Ann (Finis Barton)), who knows both Alan and Gene shows up and complications arise.
- Tenderfoot Bruce Corrigan goes to a lumber camp employment office and signs on with thirty other men to work at the Hamilton outfit, despite its reputation as a dangerous place. When they leave the office, James Lester, the supervisor of the rival camp owned by Daniel Carson, offers the men more pay to work for Carson. Only Bruce refuses and punches Lester for his underhanded maneuvering. While walking through the woods to the camp, Bruce meets and flirts with June, the daughter of McRae, who was the deceased John Hamilton's partner. Bruce then goes to the camp, where he overhears a telephone conversation between McRae and Lang, the operation's money man, during which it becomes clear that the outfit is going bankrupt. McRae hires Bruce, despite his inexperience, and introduces him to Anderson, who is the foreman. Bruce then meets some of the other men, including Englishman "Kinky" Kincaid, Bart and Red. The next day, Anderson sets Bruce to work without properly training him, and Bruce suffers some cracked ribs when he falls from a tree. When Bruce and Kinky go to the local saloon later that night, Bruce becomes suspicious when he sees Anderson talking with Lester. He is distracted, however, by the men's uproar when the bartender tells them that he cannot accept Hamilton brass in place of money anymore. The men quit, but Bruce challenges them to stick by McRae, and Kinky talks McRae into re-hiring the men Anderson had fired previously out of spite. Soon Bruce and Kinky have the men organized and working hard. Anderson orders Bart and Red, who along with him, Lester and Carson are sabotaging the the Hamilton camp to drive it out of business, to create more accidents. They arrange a costly accident, and Anderson insinuates to McRae that it was Bruce's doing. Anderson succeeds in poisoning McRae against Bruce, even though Bruce is at that moment defending McRae to a grumbling co-worker. McRae orders Bruce to leave, and after Bruce leaves, he finagles his way into Lester's confidence with a phony telegram from Carson. He orders the Carson men to cut a huge amount of Hamilton lumber far from the main camp, but his plans are halted when he learns that Lester has arranged for a fire at a Hamilton camp that afternoon. Bruce rushes to June and finds out that McRae is at the site of the fire, which has already started. Bruce then goes to the site, rescues McRae and reveals Anderson's treachery. McRae is still despondent, however, for the fire destroyed the trees he needed to fill an important order. Bruce takes the men to the Carson camp, and after a huge brawl, the men take possession of the cut lumber. The logs are floated downstream to their destination, and Bruce admits that he is Hamilton's estranged son. Later that night, Bruce also makes up with June, and the couple kiss to seal their reconciliation.
- A cowboy out to find out who murdered his brother discovers that the killers may not be who he thought they were.
- Jack Wycoff is a successful young author whose double is the notorious gangster Cy King. Mistakenly arrested, Wyckoff finds himself handcuffed to an attractive lady. Wycoff escapes custody and flees across the country with the law in hot pursuit, refusing to establish either his true identity or his innocence until the lady unwillingly trapped at his side agrees to marry him.
- A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
- Much activity is happening in naval yards on the western shores of the Pacific as tensions rise across the ocean with Nazi Germany's support of the Japanese government and military. As such, westerners in Pacific outposts have headed home in case of war in the Pacific. These tensions make it difficult for Japanese-Canadians who have adopted their new homeland as their own. The Japanese learned modern technologies through global trade, and now may use that technology against their western trading partners. There is also much internal tension with Japan itself as it tries to reconcile its feudal history with its new modern self as a potential global power. But one things that may prevent a Pacific base war is the current Sino-Japanese War with which the Japanese must first contend. Regardless, the western powers, including Canada, are militarily prepared.
- A gentle widower, enraged at German atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.
- Nicole Larsen is detested by her countrymen because they suspect she is collaborating with the occupying Germans. In reality she is working for the Norwegian underground, risking her life passing secrets to the resistance fighters.
- An American and a Canadian are driving into western Canada for a fishing-trip vacation, and the Canadian is telling about Canada and her special position as a neighbor of the United States of America. The camera takes the audience on a tour of Canada, showing her tourist attractions, her great industries and agriculture, and her scenery. He points out that both the United States and Canada are interdependent on each other for the common progress. A Paramount Pacemaker short, production number K7-6.
- US Treasury agent George Morton persuades convicted criminal Johnny Evans to help him destroy a drug smuggling ring in exchange for early parole.
- A quartet of feature stories about Canada and its people. The first segment highlights "Famous Faces", that is, clocks seen by thousands of Canadians every day. The other segments include a story on gold mining in the town of Yellowknife; a profile of Canadian humorist John Pratt; and a look at the Tip Toppers Club, an organization for tall people.
- The premiere Canadian prime time NHL ice hockey telecast program.
- The family and friends of two children lost in the wilderness mount a desperate search to find them.
- Vignettes covering various aspects of Canadian life include: "Ball Stars Start Young", "An Auto in Minutes" and "A Railroad Goes to Sea".
- Junior forest rangers learn skills for fighting forest fires, and a volunteer team on Vancouver Island demonstrates search procedures for people lost in the forest.
- "...acomplete and totally satisfying portrait of a timeless world... Bit of it rank with Chaplin: the mimed party in the flop-house, the pan-handler at work in the street, the alley brawl of a sodden drunk and his even more unfortunate rival use. These wordless but eloquent illustrations... use techniques [as if] Allan King was beginning at the beginning."
- Mike Nelson is a scuba diver in the days when it was still very new. He works alone, it was mostly carried through his voice-over narrations. These gave the show a flavor of a radio program.
- Documentary presenting panoramic sweep of local customs, natural landscapes, and urban centres along the route of the Trans-Canada Highway, then under construction.
- The show was about a young boy who lived on a boat with a motley collection of charming curmudgeons.
- A bored insurance salesman quits his job to go into politics. He first starts preaching about how man is greater than he thinks and that man can live forever. He ends up forming his own political party, "The Eternal Man" party. He begins to be referred to as "God." Then he starts having doubts about the eternalness of man.
- M-G-M built a full-sized replica of H.M.S. Bounty for its production of Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). This promotional short shows the ship stopping at several cities on North America's west coast during a world tour.
- Gerard, a young man from a "good family," dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
- A German Shepherd dog wanders endlessly, only stopping to do a good deed or help a person in need, before returning to his road without end.
- When a young dreamer and would-be skipper accepts a lucrative fishing charter to Mexico, he gets more than he bargained for. London saves the day and also helps the young man to realize what's most important in life.
- After a rebellious teenager runs away from a juvenile corrections center, London leads the boy to the farmhouse of a lonely, aging spinster. Now caught between the love and acceptance of an old woman and a faithful dog, the troubled youth doesn't stand a chance!
- London helps a grouchy old gold prospector to learn the value of friendship.