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Visit to the Archives
It makes the most sense to think
of CBC Archives as one big library. But if you go looking,
don't expect to find it all in one place.
For starters, the CBC Broadcast
Centre in Toronto is a massive building - 10 storeys high
and another four storeys below ground. It stretches across
a city block and has a footprint the size of three football
fields. Within that, there are at least a dozen different
archive vaults, libraries and staff offices on a half-dozen
floors. And that's just the network's national English-language
holdings.
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| The preferred method of storing films in the Film
Library is horizontal. Their plastic 'cans' are colour-coded:
red for negatives, green for air print and yellow for mag (magnetic)
soundtrack. [Click photo to enlarge.] |
The Société
Radio-Canada's French-language archives consist of four vaults
in the basement of Radio-Canada headquarters in Montreal. CBC also has archives
in offices across the country, where most local and regional programming
are stored. For good measure, more CBC material is stored in several
provincial archives and at the National
Archives in Ottawa.
CBC's Toronto headquarters, which opened in
1994, is the English-language archives' main hub. Here, the vast
holdings are divided among video archives, film archives, Radio
Archives, paper records and photographs. You'll need a map to find
them all. Visitors should also bring a sweater - the video, film
and radio vaults in the basement are specially climate-controlled,
to keep their treasures in the best possible condition.
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