Caption
Wood -- principal raw material used in paper-making -- is harvested in Canada's rich northern forests and floated to the mills in the colourful spring log drive. Converted to pulp, it is used to satisfy the demand of the giant newsprint industry and the more modest but important needs of Canada's fine paper industry.
Release Date
August 28, 1956
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Photographers
MalakCollection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
Chemical pulp is made by cooking wood chips in an acid or alkaline liquor until only the cellulose fibres remain. Later this "furnish" moves to a huge paper machine where it is felted to form a web. When pressed and dried it emerges as paper.
Date
June 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB76976
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176255
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Quality control is the essence of fine paper making. From pulping stage to finishing process, the paper is subjected to a rigid series of tests and the results charted graphically for ready reference.
Date
June 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB76977
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176256
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Fine paper has been produced in Canada for 150 years. The production of quality paper (unlike that of newsprint) is a custom job, often tailored to the needs of individual buyers, who place orders for some 500 varieties.
Date
June 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB76978
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176257
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
The 20th century would be inconceivable without a product known to the trade as "fine paper". Modern education, commerce, finance, all scientific and cultural achievement could not exist without it. But in Canada where the production of newsprint holds the stage as star of the industrial show, the role of fine paper has tended to be dwarfed by the performance of its big brother.
Date
June 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB76979
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176258
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
New ways are constantly being sought to make fine paper even better. The demands of the market run the gamut from bank notes and wedding invitations to tea bags and cigarette paper, each with its exacting specifications. Cotton and linen rag, once the basis of top grade bond, is now giving way to chemical pulpwoods.
Date
June 1, 1956
Accession Number
LAC-NFB76980
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176259
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory # 69: Research makes Finer "Fine Paper"
Photographers
Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
August 28, 1956
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Wood -- principal raw material used in paper-making -- is harvested in Canada's rich northern forests and floated to the mills in the colourful spring log drive. Converted to pulp, it is used to satisfy the demand of the giant newsprint industry and the more modest but important needs of Canada's fine paper industry.
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