Collection 2021-103 - 'In They Dark Streets Shineth' Christmas Light Display documentary and materials

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CA ON00156 2021-103

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'In They Dark Streets Shineth' Christmas Light Display documentary and materials

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  • c.1960-2021 (Creation)

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4.39 TB of digital videos and photographs

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(fl. 2019)

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Sean Scally is a photographer and filmmaker based in Trenton, Ontario. Website: http://seanscally.ca/

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(fl. 2018)

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Doug Knutson is a videographer and resident of Belleville, Ontario.

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Donated by the Hastings County Historical Society and the Belleville Light Display and Gateway Signage Committee in December 2021.

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Video footage and still images gathered for a documentary on the Belleville Christmas light display initiated by the Foster family after the death of Billy Foster and Art 'Sonny' Culloden on 24 December 1958. Includes the final documentary: In Thy Dark Streets Shineth by Sean Scally.

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Documentary is embargoed until March 2022.

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