Archive Record

Metadata

Item ID#

A2011.018.025

Title

Stars of the town : Lucknow, Ontario, May 29, 1948

Object Name

Recording, Video

Dates of Creation

Originally created May 29, 1948
[Reproduced to videodisc ca. 2010]

Creator

Massecar, LeRoy

Description

From the DVD dustjacket" "'Stars of the Town' are films taken mostly in Southwestern Ontario communities between 1946 and 1949 by the Rev. Leroy (Roy) Massecar (1918-1986)."

A film of the Lucknow community made on May 29, 1948, showing the day-to-day pattern of life, people and businesses in Lucknow.

Activities shown include:
- students and cadets standing at attention and walking/marching,
- people walking along the street,
- workmen demolishing building,
- Bud Thompson measuring/weighing items inside general store,
- Willard Thompson at cash register,
- men playing pool,
- Harvey Hall taking cigarette packages off shelf;
- Eileen Hall working with malt/milkshake machine,
- people performing a play on stage,
- ladies playing cards,
- woman assisting customers inside clothing store,
- Joe Agnew flipping through a book,
- Watt Hamilton loading eggs onto conveyor belt / grading eggs [possibly at Stuart Robinson's Eggs?],
- Clark Finlayson assisting customers inside general store,
- Roy Finlayson weighing dry goods, measuring inside clothing store,
- man getting hair cut inside barber shop,
- slicing meat inside butcher shop, hand-sawing beef,
- woman on telephone,
- customer service and weighing and wrapping meet inside butcher shop,
- sweeping street,
- cars driving down street,
- people / bank tellers working inside a bank,
- man mopping floor inside bank,
- Marion Donais filling paper bag with fruit,
- Toby Greer looking at electric fixture,
- men outside jewellery store,
- Roy Cullyer,
- operating Linotype machine inside Lucknow Sentinel newspaper office,
- Campbell Thompson running printing press.

Finding Aids

A finding aid listing the names of individuals and the time at which they appear in the video is available.

Provenance

The films were donated to The University of Western Ontario's J.J. Talman Regional Collection by Marion Massecar in 2005. The University converted the films to DVD format for sale.

Level of Description

Item

Physical Description

1 videodisc : silent, black and white ; 12 cm (DVD)

Restrictions on Use

The University of Western Ontario acquired copyright in the original films, and claims it in the case of the DVD reproductions.

Places

Lucknow

People

Agnew, Don
Agnew, Donald
Agnew, Evan
Agnew, Joseph
Allan, Alex
Alton, Harvey
Anderson, George
Anderson, Mary
Andrew, Bob
Ashton, Beverley
Ashton, Fraser
Baker, Alvin
Baker, Art
Baker, Victor
Barr, Russel
Black, Wilfred
Brewer, Brenda
Bushell, Jean
Button, Bob
Button, Jack
Button, Russ
Cameron, Don
Campbell, Joan
Campbell, Joyce
Carnegie, Steve
Carnegie, Valerie
Carruthers, Kathleen
Carruthers, Lillian
Chaddick, Bernice
Chinn, Allan
Chinn, Charlie
Chinn, George
Chinn, Gladys
Chinn, Jack
Chinn, Mary
Chinn, Morley
Clark, Clarence
Collins, Lloyd
Collyer, Ted
Connley, Agnes
Cook, Grace
Cook, Harold
Cook, Harold
Cullyer, Roy
Decker, Conn
Donais, Henry
Donais, Marian
Durnin, Betty
Durnin, Sam
Emberlain, Dennis
Emberlain, Roy
Emberlain, Ruth
Finlayson, Clark
Finlayson, Roy
Fischer, Bill
Fischer, Maude
Fisher, Gordon
Gammie, John
Gardener, Bob
Gardener, Eugene
Gardner, Bob
Gibson, Carolyn
Gibson, Ernie
Gibson, Shirley
Gollan, Phyllis
Graham, Margaret
Graham, Marian
Greer, Toby
Habkirk, Betty
Habkirk, Bob
Habkirk, George
Hacket, Tom
Haldenby, Donald
Hall, Eileen
Hall, Hap
Hall, Harvey
Hamilton, Betty
Hamilton, Bruce
Hamilton, Gladys
Hamilton, Joan
Hamilton, Watt
Havens, Roy
Havens, Sandy
Hedley, Kent
Henderson, Bill
Henderson, Ena
Henderson, Morgan
Henderson, Wellington
Hoag, Percy
Hodgins, Alvin
Hodgins, Clayton
Hodgins, Jim
Hodgins, Melvin
Hodgkinson, Ken
Hornell, Dave
Howald, Joe
Hughes, Allister
Huston, Grace
Irwin, Donna
Irwin, Joan
Irwin, Maxine
Irwin, Shirley
Jardine, Ken
Johnston, Ardonna
Johnston, Jane
Johnston, Ruth
Johnstone, Betty
Johnstone, Joy
Joynt, Jessie
Kennedy, Bill
Kirkpatrick, Noreen
Lockart, Trixy
Lyons, Jim
MacDonald, Coral
MacDonald, Leonard Chester
MacDonald, Lorraine
MacDonald, William
MacKenzie, Bob
MacKenzie, Marguerite
MacKenzie, Ray
MacLennan, Marlene
MacLeod, Dan
MacMillan, Gail
MacMillan, George
MacMillan, Joe
MacNay, Don
MacPherson, Bill
MacPherson, Margaret
Marshall, Betty
Marshall, Bill
Marshall, Edith
Marshall, Ian
Marshall, Jessie
Marshall, Shirley
Mason, Charlie
Mathers, Bill
McCharles, Donald
McConnell, Red
McCoy, Joe
McDonagh, Jack
McIntyre, Alex
McKim, Jack
McLeod, Dan
McNain, Bob
McQuillan, Jack
McQuillan, Ron
Milne, Dave
Mowbray, Bob
Mowbray, Jerry
Mowbray, John
Mowbray, Joyce
Murdie, Dick
Murray, Veronica
Nixon, Harry
Osborne, Jean
Pederson, Jim
Pritchard, Tom
Raith, Rod
Raynard, Milt
Reid, Don
Reid, Edna
Ritchie, Bill
Ritchie, Harold
Ritchie, Len
Roach, Hattie
Robinson, Bill
Robinson, Charlie
Robinson, Lena
Robinson, Shirley M.
Ross, June
Ross, Marian
Salked, Larry
Schmidt, Bill
Schmidt, Dough
Scurrah, Mel
Scurral, Wanda
Sherwood, Shirley
Sherwood, Sam
Sproule, Bill
Stanley, Clark
Stanley, Mabel
Stanley, Mel
Stanley, Roy
Stewart, Margaret
Stewart, Mel
Stewart, Reg
Stillman, Sgt.
Struthers, Bob
Taylor, Arnold
Thompson, Bob
Thompson, Willard
Thompson, Bud
Thompson, Campbell
Trelevan, Gwen
Trelevan, Jane
Trevelan, Robin
Wagner, Jerry
Ward, Bert
Webster, Elizabeth
Webster, George
Webster, Nancy
Whitby, George
Whitby, Joe
Wilson, Jim

Search Terms & Subjects

Automobiles
Banks
Barbershops
Butchers
Clothing stores
General stores
Grocery stores
Printing & publishing
Social life
Storefronts
Students