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
Series title:
British Canadian Pathé News
Production company:
- Re-edited newsreel made for Canadian consumption from British and American Pathe News items
- Specialty Film Import Ltd
Country of production:
cn
Name of distributor:
Specialty Film Import Ltd
Description:
- Montreal. [Church Service for Soccer Players]. Players of the P.Q.F.A. gather for a special service at the Point St. Charles Baptist Church in Montreal. Pan of crowd on snow-covered street. Some members of the crowd enter the church. Rev. J. Linton, "The Soccer Parson" who conducted the service, poses for his picture, along with several other men at the door of the church. Titles state that the proceeds from the service went to the Tom Watson Memorial Fund in Toronto.
- [Military Wedding in Dublin, Ireland]. The intertitle reads "Taking no chances!" Auxiliaries (soldiers) attend the wedding of their chief fully armed. They enter the church. After the wedding, they form an arch with their rifles. The bride and groom walk between the raised rifles. The soldiers pelt the happy couple with confetti. The whole wedding party leaves in open cars.
- Montreal: [Skiing in Montreal]. Various views of amateur skiers in Mount Royal park. There are several shots of skiers at the top of the hill and going downhill. A skier falls. Others go down the hill. There is a longshot of skiers on the hill. Several young skiers pose for the camera. Skiers go over a small mogul. A final shot shows the gathered crowd watching the skiers.
- Newburg, New York: Runners on narrow steel blades vie for speed supremacy. Ice-skaters compete in the national outdoor championship. Footage shows: longshot of the ice surface; skaters racing (second shot has been inserted in such a way that the skaters race backwards); a skater falling as the skaters take a corner, and another falls over him; various views of races in progress; and Charles Jewtraw, Eastern champion, winner of the 220- yard race. Jewtraw's sweater reads "Lake Placid".Footage shows the start of the race and another part of the race. As the camera pans to follow the race, a newsreel cameraman is visible.
- Newsreel story about the Mummer's Parade, an annual pageant in Philadelphia. Footage shows: small floats and people in costume posing, dancing and clowning, as they move through city streets. Among others, there is a shot of a 224-foot long cloak called The Sunburst Cloak. It is the largest in the procession. Costumed men carry a large piece of material, intricately worked. There is also a close-up of a small, spinning float. Four people dressed as women, dancing with each other on the street. Another costumed person, dressed as a woman, poses for the camera. The next intertitle reads: "If there are any more like these, deport them too!" This is followed by a shot of a float with a sign that reads "Immigration Stockade -- Ellis Island". People on stilts, covered by long, white sheets, wear signs reading "Holland", "England", "Poland" and "Cuba", etc. Men in padded costumes, wearing masks with black hair, parade. One carries a sign reading "The Irish Home Rulers of Gloucester". Men dresses as turtles scurry on the ground. A float shows Ben-Hur in a horse-drawn chariot. The sign on the horse reads "Excuse Our Dust". There is also a shot of a "snowman". A young girl wears a fancy costume.
- New York City: [New Year's Festivities in New York City]. A crowd celebrates at night on Broadway. Festivities are illuminated by lamps. There are several nighttime shots of the crowds waving hats and cheering. A second shot is too dark to identify. An intertitle reads: "The 'Gay White Way' -- gayer than ever, and eager to shout its greeting to Pathe News cameramen." There is a shot of a Pathé cameraman positioned on top of a Pathé News truck, amidst the crowd. A freeze-frame shows the crowd waving. Another freeze-frame shows the Pathé News vehicle. A closing intertitle, with no footage, says "The huge lamps are flashed on the crowds of turbulent merrymakers" <7mn 56s>
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- DOWNHILL SKIING
- DUBLIN
- IRELAND
- MILITARY WEDDINGS
- PARADES
- PHILADELPHIA
- SOCCER
- SPEED SKATING
- JEWTRAW, CHARLES
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. Source of description: Screening report and CDS research notes
- 2. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
