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From the Old Home to the New

Accession number: 
1908.0001
Production Years: 
1908

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"Early Films Prompted Canada Colonization," Film News (February 1950): 19.
"It was way back in 1908 when the Canadian Pacific Railway produced its first motion picture film - FROM THE OLD HOME TO THE NEW - the odyssey of an English farmer and his family leaving their small English farm and tradition-bound land to settle and begin life anew on the vast trackless plains of western Canada. A silent black and white 35mm film, this picture was widely circulated in England by Canadian Pacific to promote colonization in Canada, an activity in which the company was intensively engaged at the turn of the century. Its success in attracting thousands of emigrants to Canada prompted the production of further films and launched the company high up among the leaders of industrial and travel film producers."