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Royal Canadian Mounted Police (7)

  • Arrest, Search and Seizure
    Arrest, Search and Seizure
    T.R. Wagstaff  &  E.J. Tooke 1972 10 min
    A Royal Canadian Mounted Police training film on deploying personnel to make a successful arrest after receiving information on drug trafficking.
  • Cactus Swing
    Cactus Swing
    Beth Portman  &  Susan Crandall 1995 5 min
    Based on a song by the Great Western Orchestra, this animated short traces the adventures of Pete, the North West Mounted Police officer who is awakened in the badlands by a varmint band and witnesses a cactus line dance.
  • The Days of Whiskey Gap
    The Days of Whiskey Gap
    Colin Low 1961 28 min
    Rousing tales of the North-West Mounted Police are brought to life through photos and artists' sketches. In 1873, the North-West Mounted Police were established to maintain law and order in the North-West Territories. They undertook a trek from Fort Dufferin, south of Winnipeg, to Fort Whoop-up, near present-day Lethbridge, Alberta. The force raised the flag and proclaimed the Queen's law, ensuring that the Canadian West would not become a lawless American-style frontier.
  • Gun Killers
    Gun Killers
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    Jason Young 2019 10 min
    In an undisclosed location in rural Nova Scotia, retired blacksmiths John and Nancy Little live a peaceful life, tending to their beautiful vegetable garden and crafting ethereal musical sculptures out of scrap metal. Occasionally, their special skills are put to use by the local police in an effort to protect the daily lives of all Canadians. Steeped in the atmospherics of a taut spy thriller, Gun Killers portrays two ordinary citizens as gentle national heroes.
  • The Musical Ride
    The Musical Ride
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    1954 19 min
    This 1954 documentary short presents the famous Musical Ride of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In a display of brilliant horsemanship, scarlet-coated Mounties take their horses through the many intricate patterns of the Ride, performed to the accompaniment of band music.
  • Precision
    Precision
    Georges Dufaux 1966 9 min
    This short film showcases the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride. The Musical Ride features RCMP officers and their horses engaged in a sophisticated set of exercises and drills choreographed to music. The camera captures the magic of the event, following along at every angle and even offering an awe-inspiring bird’s eye view. Music, colour, movement, and horsemanship combine to produce a breathtaking spectacle.
  • R.C.M.P. File 1365 - The Connors Case
    R.C.M.P. File 1365 - The Connors Case
    1947 36 min
    Based on true facts, this short 1947 dramatization depicts the investigation led by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to catch the criminal who murdered a salesman from Regina, Saskatchewan.

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