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The Annual Varsity Scrap

Accession number: 
1919.0020
Related Titles: 
Canadian National Pictorial
Series

Sponsors:

Producers:

Production Years: 
1919

Languages:

  • English
Film Properties: 
  • 28mm
  • Silent
  • Black and White
Length (feet): 
90 (35mm); 100 (28mm)
Length (minutes): 
1

Subjects:

Holding Institutions: 

Library and Archives Canada: 35mm, 28mm,
"Film shows University of Toronto undergraduates staging an initiation at Varsity Stadium; intertitle, 'Undergrads stage big initiation at Varsity Stadium, followed by general melee.' Followed by shots of a convocation procession of students dressed in gowns and mortar boards walking from University College to Convocation Hall."

Comments: 
"Canadian National Pictorial was a newsreel produced from 1919 to 1921 by the private company Pathéscope of Canada Ltd. The Canadian government funded the newsreel" (Library and Archives Canada).