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:
- London, England. Charity Soccer Match. A match between actors and boxers held for the benefit of St. Dunstan's Hospital. Shown in a panning shot are the players, first one team, then the other. Two women stand with the second team. Noted actress, Mlle Alice Delyesia, kicks the ball off. High angle shot of the game in progress from over one of the goal-post is seen.
- Bedford, England. Britain sells hugh airship to U.S. -- the R.38, costing when completed $2,500,000 will be delivered to American Government by air. Footage, from the ground, shows the huge framework for the airship, which is inside a hangar. There is a shot from inside the framework of the airship. A British officer and an American officer pose on the ground, with two civilians with the dirigible framework in the background.
- Montreal: Snowshoers hold 10-mile walk -- 65 contestants in full showshoe costume compete in annual National A.A.A. race. Snowshoers are seen moving past in droves, taking off at the start of the race. A. Lefebvre and H. Herbert, the first and second to finish, pull away from the rest. Other contestants are shown being encouraged by onlookers. Lefebvre wins the 10-mile race in 1 hour , 35 minutes\
- and 20 seconds, breaking the record by 4 minutes and 19 seconds. There are various shots of Lefebvre as he approaches the finish line. The crowd closes in behind him. In a high angle shot, a band can be seen playing. Also seen in a medium shot is 70-year-old Fred Cushing who also took part in the race and finished well up with the leaders. He wears Number 44
- Washington, D.C: Get first-hand knowledge of U.S. Government. Original copies of the Constitution are shown school girls in study of country's history. High angle shot of girls lining up and moving past the display, examining the glass-covered document, as guards look on. Two girls examine the document.
- New York City. Test new way of regulating the traffic on busiest city's busiest street -- police can now safely direct traffic from towers erected on 5th Avenue. High angle shot, straight down to the roof of a tower. Street-level shot of the tower. Orders to drivers are given by means of different colored lights flashed from the towers. Low angle shot, showing the three lights atop the tower. They are horizontal, not vertical. Shot from the tower of the busy street and traffic.
- Grand Rapids, Michigan: Government starts trial of Senator Newberry and 135 others indicted for illegal expenditures in recent Senate election contest against Henry Ford. Indicted men are shown leaving the Federal Building, coming down the steps and moving past the camera. A panning shot shows a row of approximately 10 men, the government investigators who gathered the evidence and of Senator Newberry. Next is a medium shot of Senator Newberry standing on the right, and another man. They walk away.
- Port Henry, New York. Send it by the Dog Mail -- the only route possible through snowed-in region of upper New York, and the U.S. Post Office is using it to good advantage. Shot of the dog sled and two men starting out. Shot of the sled being pushed through deep snow. The driver leads the dogs through heavy snow. They are eventually unable to continue. Shot of the driver leaving a bag of mail at a building. An intertitle reads: "A serious delay n the afternoon delivery -- and government investigation discloses the cause." This is followed by a shot of the driver feeding the dogs. This ends with a close-up of one of the dogs.
- The Adriatic Problem. This is an intertitle, with no corresponding footage. The rest of it is as follows: "Italian-Jugo-Slav controversy is brought to the fore as President Wilson opposes the latest Allied agrement in which America was not consulted."
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- ACTORS & ACTRESSES
- AIRSHIPS
- CITY TRAFFIC
- CONSTITUTIONS
- CORRUPTION
- ENGLAND
- FUND RAISING
- NEW YORK
- QUEBEC
- SNOWSHOES & SNOWSHOEING
- SOCCER
- TRAFFIC SIGNS & SIGNALS
- UNITED STATES
- UNITED STATES
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.
- 3. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 4. Includes note at start: 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, Président.
- 5. Stories 7 and 8 are not listed in the catalogue card description but are in the shotlist in the Dawson finding aid.
