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:
- Canadian version
- Specialty Film Import Ltd.
Country of production:
cn
Name of distributor:
Specialty Film Import Ltd.
Description:
- Sailboat Regatta. Footage of several two-masters sailing by.
- Westmoreland's Famous Sports. Footage of a packed stadium in Grasmere, England with men wrestling, judges pondering, and a man pole-vaulting.
- The Honourable Flemming B. McCurdy Returns Home from Victorious Political Campaign. Nova Scotia Minister of Public Works, F.B McCurdy, returns home to Halifax after being elected to the Cabinet of the Right Honourable Arthur Meighen. Seen are: the coupe driving; Mr. and Mrs. McCurdy stepping out and being welcomed by their family; McCurdy posing; and McCurdy forking hay in a field and accepting a drink from a boy.
- Preparations for the 1920 Trans-Canada Flight. The Fairey Transatlantic seaplane G-CYCF is lowered to the water near Montreal in preparation for its flight to Halifax where the Canadian Air Board-sponsored flight will start. Colonel Robert Leckie, director of flying operations of the Air Board, and the pilot, Major Basil D. Hobbs, pose in civies before departing. NB: G-CYCF, beset with troubles from the start of the Trans-Canada flight, crash-landed in the Saint John River, not far from Saint John, New Brunswick, and the two pilots had to change to an HS2L flying boat to continue their flight.
- Annual Fair in Picton, Ontario. The RCHA, RMC and Picton Collegiate Cadets head a parade on the Picton main street. Shown is the crowd at the fair grounds.
- Rulers of Britain Visit Scotland. King George and Queen Mary arrive by state carriage followed by a retinue. Kilted soldiers march in review for the King and four lassies do the Highland Fling. The final shot is that of an old man in Highland dress.
- Coney Island Mardi Gras. Seen are: a parade; floats; clowns; and a parade of babies in flower-bedecked carriages.
- Violent Explosion on Wall Street. Footage of the aftermath, 16 September 1920. Shown is Nassau Street packed with people; damage to the J.P. Morgan building; debris littering the street; detectives guarding the entrance to the site of the explosion; and a close-up of a circular reading "Remember we will not tolerate any longer. Free the political prisoners or it will be the deaths all of you", signed American Anarchist Fighters. Edwin P. Fischer arrives from Canada to testify regarding his advanced warnings of the explosion.
- Thirty-Six Killed and Two-Hundred Injured in Wall Street Bomb Explosion. Footage of: crowded street; automobiles; rubble; the damaged J.P. Morgan building; government troops guarding the US subtreasury partly wrecked by the bomb; the covered bodies of casualities; and fragments of clothing collected from the street.
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- AERONAUTICAL FLIGHTS
- ANARCHISM
- ATHLETICS
- BOMBINGS
- CARNIVALS
- CONEY ISLAND
- ENGLAND
- FAIREY TRANSATLANTIC
- FAIRS
- HIGHLAND FLING
- NEW YORK
- NEW YORK
- NOVA SCOTIA
- ONTARIO
- PARADES
- PICTON
- POLITICIANS
- SAILING
- SCOTLAND
- SEAPLANES
- VISITS OF STATE
- GEORGE V, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN
- HOBBS, BASIL D.
- LECKIE, ROBERT
- MARY, QUEEN
- MCCURDY, FLEMMING B.
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: first five items - viewing report and CDS research notes; last four stories - CDS research notes.
- 2. Re-edited newsreel for Canadian Theatres made from British and American Pathe news items.
- 3. The first two stories show evidence of damage on nitrate printing source.
- 4. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
