Fonds/collection:
DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
General access conditions for collection
Reproduction access:
- No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Remarks:
- 1. Material was received from Dawson City in 2 shipments - 506 reels in 1978 and 26 reels in 1980. Of these 389 reels, primarily of American fiction, were transferred to Library of Congress for conversion. Reference copies of some of these reels were returned to NFTSA.
Accession number:
1979-0191
Title:
Bread upon the Waters : [incomplete]
Country of production:
us
Production Credit:
- director, Oscar Eagle; author, J. Edward Hungerford
Cast credit:
W.P. Foote, Vera Hamilton, M.M. Barnes, L.S. McKey, Lillian Leighton, Francis Asman, Lawrice Woodburn, Timby Sheehan, Julia Griffin, Julius Frankenburg, Walter Roberts
Description:
- The ex con, Tim Clancy, returns home from prison and is greeted by his mother and his sweetheart. He applies for a job in the want ads and gets it.His employer, Preston the baker, doesn't know about Tim's past. Quinn, a detective, tells Preston about Tim who is promptly fired. Preston's wife receives her mother's wedding ring from her sister and puts it on her finger. Tim, unable to find a job, is compelled to accept charity in the form of a cake given to him by Mrs. Preston. <14mn>
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Copyright Status:
Copyright expired.
Restrictions on Consultation:
~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Donor Restrictions:
Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.
Notes:
- 1. Reviewed MPW Sept 28, 1912, P.1302.
- 2. Source of description screening report and CDS research notes.
- 3. Oscar Eagle, the creator of this film, died in 1930 - copyright expired.
