- NFB Archives (National Film Board of Canada)
- A Is for Architecture
A Is for Architecture
collection1954
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21 videos
Various shots of demolition of ancient stone and brick buildings with architectural elements in progress, of bricks falling in clouds of…STK-ID 30841 · 1954 · 11 min 44 s, 16mm original kodachrome, 16mm neg b&wOpen video file ↗
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21 images · displayed from NFB Archives (National Film Board of Canada)'s own server
- Various shots of demolition of ancient stone and brick buildings with architectural elements in progress, of bricks falling in clouds of…
Various CUs and MSs of heavy construction machinery at work, of pile driver frames, heads and machinery, mechanical shovels, buckets and…
Various shots of onlookers including men in business suits watching construction machinery at work
CU of facade of modern skyscraper, TILT DOWN to decorative arches framing some of the windows
MS of worker at the top of concrete elevator scaffolding scraping concrete from elevator into hopper
Interior LASs of large ragged hole in roof of building being demolished
Various shots of machinery in operation in excavation, man greasing boom pulley of mechanical shovel
Various MSs and LASs of workmen tearing down buildings, prying blocks of concrete off top of walls, arches
MS of crane boom, dangling hook moving across background of buildings
ESTABLISHING SHOT of construction crew at work on building
Montreal buildings: MSs of building facades, of roofs of low buildings
Montreal buildings: LAS of statue of Queen Victoria in Victoria Square, TILT DOWN and PAN to buildings bordering square and TILT UP.…
Montreal buildings: various shots of buildings in vicinity of Place d'Armes Square
Montreal: HAMLS of buildings and skyscrapers in downtown Montreal
Montreal: several ESTABLISHING SHOTs of buildings in Montreal, tall apartment building in background, of section around Saint James…
Montreal: HAS towards Jacques Cartier Bridge showing church steeples, roofs of buildings, construction in foreground
Montreal traffic: shots of motor traffic, Sun Life Building in background, jaywalkers visible
MS of construction at top of building, PAN to statue of Queen Victoria in Victoria Square
Building construction: various shots of construction in an excavation, of cranes, workmen and buildings in background
LAS of statue of Queen Victoria
LA PAN of a hat manufacturing building and adjoining buildings
Where
- Held by
- NFB Archives (National Film Board of Canada) via NFB Archives — stock shots
- Dates
- 1954 (indexed as 1954)
- Level
- collection (source: Film)
- Extent
- 21 stock shots
- Scope & content
- Stock shots from the NFB film A Is for Architecture, in the NFB Archives stock-footage library.
- Places
- Montreal; Old Montreal
- Location
- Montréal, QC · city · confidence 90% · city:geonames · found as “Montreal”
- Harvested
- 2026-10-21T05:51:35Z · source datestamp n/a · nfb