performing artists

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300068931

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  • People who practice the performing arts, such as such as singers, actors, dancers, acrobats, magicians, circus performers, comedians, etc. For persons who make performance art, considered a fine art and often seen in a museum, see

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"Cancan"

Item is an albumen carte-de-visit copy of a drawing that two men in top hats; two girls in acrobatic costume, one getting a 'piggy back ride'. Recto caption: "CANCAN S".

Prelims and surround materials

File contains editing comments, and rough drafts for books written by Dean and Nancy Tudor. All of the published works this file has source material for are in the Archives collection:

F 80.2.4 Contemporary Popular Music
F 80.2.3 Black Music
F 80.2.10 Grass Roots Music

Tudor, Dean

Card index

File contains paper cards with information about various musical artists, albums etc. Was used in the writing of the "American Popular Music on Elpee" books by Dean and Nancy Tudoe. The series consisted of 4 books - "Contemporary Popular Music", "Black Music", "Jazz", and "Grass Roots Music". All of the published books are currently in the Archives collection.

Tudor, Dean

Big Band, and Stage and Screen

File contains editing comments, and rough drafts for book written by Dean and Nancy Tudor. Book titled "Contemporary Popular Music". The book can be found in the Archives collection F 80.2.4.

Tudor, Dean

Folk No. 2

File contains editing comments, and rough drafts for book written by Dean and Nancy Tudor. Book titled "Grass Roots Music". The book can be found in the Archives collection F 80.2.10.

Tudor, Dean

Pop

File contains editing comments, and rough drafts for book written by Dean and Nancy Tudor. Book titled "Contemporary Popular Music". The book can be found in the Archives collection F 80.2.4.

Tudor, Dean

Rock and Roll

File contains editing comments, and rough drafts for book written by Dean and Nancy Tudor. Book titled "Contemporary Popular Music". The book can be found in the Archives collection F 80.2.4.

Tudor, Dean

Blues

File contains editing comments, and rough drafts for book written by Dean and Nancy Tudor. Book titled "Black Music". The book can be found in the Archives collection F 80.2.3.

Tudor, Dean

Gospel, Soul, and Reggae

File contains editing comments, and rough drafts for book written by Dean and Nancy Tudor. Book titled "Black Music". The book can be found in the Archives collection F 80.2.3.

Tudor, Dean

Jazz - J1-J4

File contains editing comments, and rough drafts for book written by Dean and Nancy Tudor. Book titled "Jazz". The book can be found in the Archives collection F 80.2.5.

Tudor, Dean

Jazz - J1-J4

File contains editing comments, and rough drafts for book written by Dean and Nancy Tudor. Book titled "Jazz". The book can be found in the Archives collection F 80.2.5.

Tudor, Dean

Folk No. 1

File contains editing comments, and rough drafts for book written by Dean and Nancy Tudor. Book titled "Grass Roots Music". The book can be found in the Archives collection F 80.2.10.

Tudor, Dean

The Wolfman Jack Show [television series]

The U.S. disk jockey Wolfman Jack came to the greater public's attention in the 1973 film American Graffiti and as the announcer for the television rock concert series, The Midnight Special. His Howl Productions co-produced The Wolfman Jack Show with the CBC in Vancouver. The producers booked foreign performers as well as Canadian musical artists, such as the Stampeders and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, and was intended to give Canadian artists an avenue into an international market. The program also featured regular performances by the Famous People Players, and comedy with Danny Wells, Peter Cullen, and Sally Sales.

Original air dates: Tue 7:30-8:00 p.m., 5 Oct 1976-13 Sep 1977

Wolfman Jack

The Blues

Original broadcast on December 28, 1966 was 90 min. in length. This version is only 60 min. Guests featured in this six-part series included Muddy Waters, Brownie McGee, Sonny Terry, Otis Spahn and Willie Dixon.

A La Carte

File contains three audio reels with various recordings from the A La Carte program.

Miscellaneous album

Item consists of an album that is beige with a linear, green, geometric design and brown tape along the spine. It is held together with black string. Pages are green. Photographs are loose. Other loose accompanying material includes ink, pencil and colour sketches, various postcards.

Most photographs are from Toronto, Ontario. 1 photograph shows the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir at the Peace Festival in 1919. There is a publication with a Plan of York Minster Sh3wing the Architectural Styles from 1931. 1 photograph of Sir Geo Scott Roberston, M.P.

Locations include: Hamilton, Ontario; New York City, New York; Boston Massachusetts; Bradford, England; York, England; and Yorkshire, England.

Dates include: 1906, 1907, 1908, 1912, 1926, 1931.

Beniamino Gigli

Item is a publicity portrait of Beniamino Gigli, an Italian operatic singer who sang for many Italian opera companies and debuted for the Metropolitan Opera in 1920. He is shown in profile, with one foot resting upon a chair. Black ink inscription on surface of photograph reads, 'Bgigli Montreal 1925'

Mishkin

Points east, points west [television program]

Television series that aired from May-October 1976, featuring musical variety productions from CBC centres outside Toronto, two each from Vancouver, Montreal, Halifax, Edmonton, and St. John's. The programs were pilots for future CBC productions and featured local talents from each of the regions.

Black Hallelu-jah [television special]

Performance and broadcast of a song called "Black Hallelujah" composed by Russ Little and Norm Symonds; a 60 minute gospel music version of the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Tears are not enough [documentary]

"Tears Are Not Enough" was a song written and performed by a group of Canadian artists in 1985 to raise relief funds for the famine in Ethiopia. This documentary explored the song's creation and recording, and aired on CBC television on December 22, 1985.

Actress Dorothy Gish

Item is a copy print with the caption: A 1916 crew films actress Dorothy Gish. The director, center, is Elmer Clifton. The assistant cameraman, right is Karl Brown. Eight years later, Brown photographed "The Covered Wagon," the prototype of the "Hollywood western." I-88-1454

Kodak Canada Inc.

RTA 1973 Class Reunion videos

This file contains a DVD containing still photographic images, videos, and a music file for the 1973 RTA class reunion held in October, 2013. Also on the disc is a video of 1986 reunion party. Salvatore (Sal) Greco was responsible for the creation of the disk and much of its content.

Greco, Sal

The pocket rotoscope stereoscope

Item is a novelty compact collapsible tinplate stereoscope given as a premium from cigarette brands. The cover of the object is built in the shape of a small book. It is detailed with green, gold and yellow floral designs. Once item is unlocked, a viewer with small lenses pops out parallel to a small folding card holder. The lenses slide in and out horizontally and the built in round topped frame move back and forth. Object was built like this to allow the user to focus. Stereoviews are 40 mm. Viewing lenses are 60 mm in focal length. This object was used to view two nearly identical photographs, or stereographs, as one three dimensional image. The stereograph would be placed in the card holder and adjusted to fit the user's vision until the two images overlap to mimic a three-dimensional effect.This stereoscope comes with 12 black and white silver gelatin stereographs of Victorian Celebrities.

Written on object : The Pocket Rotoscope The Rotary Photographic Co. Lo. 12 New Union St. London, E.C. Works, West Drayton, Midd With 12 Real Photographic Stereograms Views, Staturary, Celebrities, Children, Comic Scenes, Etc. Patented Ro. No. 442.342.

Promotional film packages and stills

The series consists of promotional packages and film stills (press kits) put together by various Canadian, American and international film production companies and collected by the Toronto Film Society.

Toronto Film Society

Indigo [part 1]

Item is a tape on part one of a sales courtesy program by Indigo.

Insight Productions

China Trip - Report of the 3 week visit to the Beijing Film Academy by Sauro and Damude

This file contains the report "China Trip - report of the three week visit to the Beijing FIlm Academy by representatives of Ryerson Polytechnical Institute's Film and Photography Department, Elvino Sauro and Brian Damude', and related correspondence between Damude and Professor Zhou Chuang-ji - Editor of the Foreign Film Resource Center Beijing Film Academy.

Damude, Brian

Portrait of man with guitar

Item is a brown card with silver border and silver letterpress, showing Ontario crest and text "B. Frank Stewart/ ORILLIA, ONT." Image is of a man playing a guitar. He sits on an elaborate cushioned chair in front of a painted backdrop depicting plants. On verso, handwritten in pencil, "Toronto - Normal S. opened Nov 1. 1847/ Miss J. Dawson(?)"

B. Frank Stewart

Portrait of a woman with violin

Item is a bi-fold card with mottled green pattern and embossed floral decoration at upper left. Inside portrait of a woman holding a violin. In black letterpress, at bottom inside "Herbert E. Paige/ 259 1/2 YONGE ST./ TORONTO"

Herbert E. Paige

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