Associated Screen News Ltd.^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

• Name	Associated Screen News Ltd.
  Gender	Unknown
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1920-1958?	Montreal, PQ
  	Acquired in 1958 by Du-Art
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1931-1951	Victoria, BC
  	Address: 701 Government Street Empress Hotel Victoria, BC Canada
  Association	Pollard, Arthur Vivian (Relationship: Photographer; Manager)
  Association	Pollard, Harry (Relationship: Photographer; Cinematographer)
  Person ID	I616	Camera Workers | A, vol. 2, 1901-1950
  Last Modified	10 Jan 2020

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Cinematographer (commercial); Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Established in affiliation with the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. Photograph Dept., ASN produced still photographs, newsreels and travelogues featuring the railway and navigation company. In Apr 1935 the company purchased the world-famous Notman photographic business in Montreal along with 400,000 negatives. The Notman photographs were eventually acquired as the core records of the Notman Photographic Archives, McCord Museum of Canadian History. A.V. Pollard was the chief Victoria photographer and manager of the company's studio in the Empress Hotel from the early 1930s to past 1950. REFERENCES: D.M. Stewart, 1996.12.15.

  
  

• Sources

  [S222] Browne, Colin, Browne (1979), (Victoria: British Columbia Provincial Museum, 1979). [S415] E.J. Hart, Hart (1983), (Banff, Alta.: Altitude Publishing, 1983). [S272] Dennis J. Duffy, Duffy (1986), (Victoria: Sound and Moving Image Division, Provincial Archives of British Columbia, 1986). [S982] Cinema in Quebec (Web site). "Associated Screen News" URL (accessed 26 Mar 2017): http://www.cinemaparlantquebec.ca/Cinema1930-52/pages/textbio/Textbio.jsp?textBioId=13