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Andrij Baziuk collection
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- Source of title proper: Title based on the provenance of the fonds.
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65 film reels: 16mm. -- 1 print: poster.
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Custodial history
Baziuk purchased the films from a Ukrainian-Canadian man in Regina in either 1973 or 1974. The man was a farmer and ran an itinerant picture show though various Ukrainian communities in rural Saskatchewan during the 1930s-50s. This man originally bought the films separately for the purpose of showing them as part of his picture show and sold them to Baziuk because he was concerned that the films would be lost or destroyed and Baziuk was interested in saving the films for posterity. The transaction also included the original projector used in the picture show, but Baziuk discarded the equipment. When Baziuk purchased the films, he organized showings for the Ukrainian communities in Regina and Edmonton but ceased due to the fragile nature of the films.
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<p>The collection consists of films used in an itinerant picture show that toured through rural Saskatchewan, particularly through Ukrainian communities around Regina, during the 1930s-50s. The films include episodes of popular series such as Tarzan of the Apes, Dick Tracy, Krazy Kat, and Hopalong Cassidy; full-length genre films including Westerns and melodramas; comedy shorts; compilations of trailers for Hollywood features; episodes of Canadian Movietone News for 1950-51; a documentary about Inuit life in the 1940s; and two feature-length Ukrainian films that were made in North America. Both of these films were produced by Ukrainian-Canadian Vasile Avramenko. The first is entitled Cossacks in Exile (Zaporozhets za dunaem) (Edgar L. Ulmer, 1938), while the second is entitled Marusia (Leo Bulgakov, 1938). These films are in the Ukrainian language with English subtitles, were specifically made for the expatriate Ukrainian community in North America, and are rare examples of Ukrainian commercial filmmaking in North America.</p>;<p>Many of the films are fragments of larger works, but it is unclear if the complete films were ever shown as part of the travelling picture show.</p>;<p>The collection also contains a poster for Cossacks in Exile and an original cardboard box used to house one of the film reels.</p>
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Immediate source of acquisition
Andrij Baziuk donated the films to the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1997.
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- The material is in English and Ukrainian.
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Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act. The films cannot be viewed until access copies have been created.
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The Vasile Avramenko fonds is held at Library and Archives Canada (MG 31, D 87).
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Further accruals are not expected
General note
<p>The name of the original owner of the films is currently unknown but further research is being conducted to complete the custodial history.</p>;<p>Many of the films exhibit symptoms of acetate decay and other forms of damage. Specifically, some of the diacetate films emit a noxious odour, the film has excessive amounts of shrinkage, and the films exhibit a great amount of mechanical damage.</p>;<p>When Baziuk purchased the films, he spliced several of the film reels in order to project them. Some minor repairs such as splicing may have been performed by the original owner, also.</p><br><br>Record No. PR3625;PR1997.0246<br><br>
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- Baziuk, Andrij (Subject)