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:
- A Review of Events in England: London: Tom Mann, veteran socialist, is elected Secretary of the Almagamated Society of Engineers. There is a close-up of Mann as he addresses a large gathering on the occasion of his election to the presidency of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. Mann stops speaking, glances at the camera, removes his hat, and smiles.
- Southampton, England: The last of Britain's delegates for the World Labor Congress leave for Washington. There is a low angle longshot of a very large passenger ship. Seen is the ship's bow. One group of delegates poses beside the gangplank. A second group poses in front of a smaller boat on the ship's deck.
- Hounslow: Harry Hawker bids Godspeed to Captain Matthews and Sergeant Kay on the start of their 13,000-mile flight to Australia. Footage of: the flyers being wished godspeed by Harry Hawker; one pilot on the ground, both men in the cockpit of their aircraft; a Sopwith Wallaby; and the aircraft on the take-off run. Matthews and Kay took off in October 1919 and six months later, on 17 April 1920, they crash landed on the island of Bali and abandoned the project.
- Westminster Abbey: The Lord High Chancellor and Judges attend Divine Service prior to the opening of the Law Courts. Footage shows: various shots of the robed High Chancellor and judges moving past the camera in a procession as a crowd looks on. They are shown entering the church.
- Santa Claus Parade in Montreal. Footage shows the Santa Claus parade for Christmas 1919 with Indians in war bonnets and on horseback, a marching band, Santa Claus on a float pulled by four white horses, Santa waving from a chimney and crowds of children. Crowds line the sidewalk.
- New York City: An intertitle introduces this story: "War on 'Reds' on! Tons of propaganda literature are seized by government agents in raids on radical centers." Footage shows three men, one a police officer, examining literature. There is a close-up of one publication entitled "The Revolutionary Age/Devoted to the International Communist Struggle/Saturday, July 19, 1919/Price 5ç." A cartoon shows a robot holding an ax, representing the League of Nations. The victim lies on the ground, apparently about to be decapitated. The next intertitle reads: "Arrested on a charge of criminal anarchy -- Benjamin Gitlow (left), former Socialist assemblyman, "Jim" Larkin, Irish labor agitator" and this is followed by footage of two men posing for the camera. Next is a medium shot of Chief Magistrate McAdoo, who is directing the round-up of "Reds" in New York City, speaking to the camera.
- Washington, D.C. Prince of Wales in the United States for the First Time. The Prince of Wales is welcomed by Vice- President Marshall. Footage shows: medium shot of the Prince in uniform and his retinue leaving the White House after an informal visit to the President at his bedside; a group of cars moving down the driveway at the White House; ; visiting the unfinished Lincoln Monument; awarding decorations to American soldiers; visiting wounded soldiers and shaking hands with his left hand; and the Prince delivering a speech from a dais.
- Launching the Shamrock IV. Footage of: the boat yard; the hull of the racing sloop; and the flooding of dry dock. Sir Thomans Lipton hopes to win the America Cup with this boat.
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- AERONAUTICAL FLIGHTS
- AMERICA'S CUP RACES
- COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA
- ELECTIONS
- ENGLAND
- GREAT BRITAIN
- GREAT BRITAIN
- JUDGES
- LABOUR CONGRESSES
- MONTRÉAL
- MONUMENTS
- RELIGIOUS SERVICES
- SANTA CLAUS PARADE
- SOCIALISM
- SOPWITH WALLABY
- TRADE UNIONS
- TRANSPORT PLANES
- UNITED STATES
- UNITED STATES
- VISITS OF STATE
- WASHINGTON
- YACHT RACING
- CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES, 1948-
- GITLOW, BENJAMIN
- HAWKER, HARRY
- KAY
- LARKIN, JIM
- MANN, TOM
- MARSHALL, THOMAS R.
- MATHEWS, GEORGE C.
- MCADOO, WILLIAM G.
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: viewing report and CDS research notes.
- 2. Re-edited newsreel for Canadian theatres made from British and American Pathé news items, with Canadian stories added by Pathé cameramen employed by Specialty Film Import Ltd.
- 3. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 4. The start of this film also has this message: "Autorisé par le Bureau de censure de la Province de Québec/Authorized by the Board of Censors of the Province of Quebec. L.J. Lemieux, President."
Consultation copy:
- V1 9003-0002
- V1 2010-01-0003
