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Astelpaju

1991 | Promotion, Advertising | Director:
Baltic Evening 3/8

1991 | Newsreel, Amateur film | Director:

Festive dinner in Toronto held in honor of the restoration of independence of the Baltic states.

In September 1991 Baltic Federation in Canada held a festive dinner in Westin Harbor Castle Hotel in Toronto in order to celebrate the restoration of independence of the Baltic states. More than 800 participants were present, including Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, members of Canadian government and parliament, city advisers of Toronto. Dinner guests are talking to each other and look happy. Bob Rae, head of Ontario province, is also in the crowd. Michael Wilson, Minister of Industry, Science, Technology and Foreign Trade and Ilmar Heinsoo, the honorary consul general of the Republic of Estonia, are talking in the dinner table. ...
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Baltic Evening 4/8

1991 | Newsreel, Amateur film | Director:

Festive dinner in Toronto held in honor of the restoration of independence of the Baltic states.

In September 1991 Baltic Federation in Canada held a festive dinner in Westin Harbor Castle Hotel in Toronto in order to celebrate the restoration of independence of the Baltic states. More than 800 participants were present, including Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, members of Canadian government and parliament, city advisers of Toronto. Bob Rae holds his speech in full length.
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Baltic meeting. Representatives of national organisations of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia meet in Canada

Title in Estonian: Balti pagulasorganisatsioonide esindajate kohtumine Torontos

1991 | Newsreel, Amateur film | Director:

Representatives of Baltic refugee organizations together with the representative of Canadian Parliament discuss the political situation in the Baltic States after the coup d'état in Moscow on August 20, 1991.

Representatives of Baltic refugee organizations together with the representative of Canadian Parliament discuss the political situation in the Baltic States after the coup d'état in Moscow on August 20, 1991. TV interviews with Laas Leivat, Al Pačevicius and John Eichmanis (simultaneous translation) where the support from Canada is being asked in order to restore the independence of the Baltic States and establish new legal governments in these countries.
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Coup Attempt in Moscow in August 1991 (CBS News)

Title in Estonian: CBC News: olukord pärast Moskva riigipöördekatset 1991

1991 | Film footage, Other categories | Director:

Overview by Canadian TV programme CBC News about the political situation after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt. At the press conference of the Canadian Baltic Federation the government's support is being asked for recognizing the independence of the Baltic States.

Video recording about the CBC News programme. After the failure of the coup attempt in Moscow in August 1991, there are still alarming mood in the Baltic communities in Canada. Expatriate Latvians in Toronto have gathered to the church service at St. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Church in order to express support towards the state independence of Latvia. Viesturs Zarins and Valdis Liepins, representatives of Latvian community, are holding speeches. Press conference of the Canadian Baltic Federation is held in Toronto where the Canadian government is asked for diplomatic recognition of the Baltic States that have regained their independence. Laas Leivat, ...
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Demonstration in Toronto to support Macedonia

Title in Estonian: Meeleavaldus Torontos Makedoonia toetuseks

1991 | Newsreel, Amateur film | Director:

The film depicts a demonstration by Macedonian community in Queens Park, Toronto, in order to recognize the state's independence.

The film depicts street views in front of the Hotel Filmores, the demonstration, flaring Macedonian flags; folk music is playing and the crowd is dancing. The interviews held with Macedonians are about the nationality and the history of Macedonia, also about the yearning for peaceful independence for the country that is also supported in Canada. Also the representatives of other countries of former Yugoslavian Federation participating in the demonstration express their support. The crowd applauds the speeches. There is also an Estonian poster among the other ones supporting Macedonian independence.
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Eesti Filmikroonika

1991 | Newsreels 1940 II half-1991, Newsreels | Director: Heli Speek
Endel Lippmaa interview on CBC News

Title in Estonian: Endel Lippmaa intervjuu Toronto telekanalile

1991 | Newsreel, Amateur film | Director:

Endel Lippmaa gives CBC TV channel an interview about the political events that took place in Vilnius, Lithuania in January 1991.

Endel Lippmaa gives Toronto CBC TV channel's new programme an interview from Washington. Lippmaa comments on the events that took place in Vilnius 1991 when fourteen people died when defending Vilnius TV Tower and Lithuanian TV and Radio House attacked by the Soviet forces. More than a thousand people got injuries during the attack. Lippmaa assumes that Estonia and Latvia are also not protected from similar attacks by the Soviet army. He thanks Canadian press for their attention and believes that world-wide press has a great responsibility for reflecting international events.
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Food aid to Latvia

Title in Estonian: Toiduabi Läti elanikele

1991 | Newsreel, Amateur film | Director:

Expatriate Latvians in Canada load the food aid packages to the shipping containers in order to send the aid to the Republic of Latvia that has recently regained its independence.

Expatriate Latvian men in Canada are busy loading humanitarian aid packages into the shipping containers in Toronto in order to send these to homeland. Organizer of the humanitarian aid for Latvians gives an interview where he comments that everything has succeeded. In three weeks, thousands of packages of humanitarian aid, including food, clothes etc., were collected that are now being sent to the relatives and acquaintances in Latvia.
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Igas talus peab olema aed

1991 | Promotion, Advertising | Director: