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:
- Municipal Market. Crowds buying at an Ilford Municipal Market staff in London, England.
- Seaside Resort. Groups of adults and children play along the beach and in the water at a seaside resort in Yarmouth, England.
- World's Largest Drydock. The drydock in Lauzon, Quebec. Footage includes: the sluice gate and the SS Canadian Trapper.
- Cycle Racing at Exhibition Park in Toronto. Footage of: the start of the race; two young boys posing with their bikes; men standing in front of the bleachers; the motorcycle and sidecar race; and J. Menton, the winner.
- Swimming Demonstration. George Vernot, crack Canadian swimmer, demonstrates the crawl, the breast stroke, the overarm stroke, and various stunts for RMC cadets in Kingston, Ontario.
- Head-On Collision of Two Railway Locomotives. Footage of: the "Fair Special" moving on the track and colliding with another engine at the Fresno California fair.
- Troops Brought In the Control Rioting Steel Workers. Footage of: troops walking the streets; patrolling Inland Steel Company grounds; and searching men for weapons in Gary, Indiana.
- Getting Together. Animation showing five men discussing around a table. They represent the Imperial Peace Conference. A workman appears representing Labour. A fat man, representing Capital, appears in turn. Both figures address the Conference. A small man representing The Public arrives and says "Consider me too".
- A Review of Events in Great Britain. A large crowd visits the U-boat "Deutschland", now a war relic anchored in Yarmouth, England. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, who hopes to make Britain dry, poses. A huge crowd of racing fans attend the Doncaster turf classic where footage shows the crowd and the race in progress. A statue of Abraham Lincoln is Unveiled by the Mayor of Manchester, England. The plaque reads "This monument of Abraham Lincoln, the work of George Grey Barnard, was, through the friendly offices of the Sulgrave Institution and the Anglo-American Society, given to the City of Manchester by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, in commemoration of Lanchashire's friendship to the cause for which Lincoln lived and died and of the century of peace among English-speaking people".
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- BEACHES
- BICYCLE RACING
- DONCASTER
- DRY DOCKS
- ENGLAND
- GARY
- HORSE RACING
- INDIANA
- LAUZON
- LINCOLN, ABRAHAM
- MANCHESTER
- MARKETS
- MOTORCYCLE RACING
- QUEBEC
- RAILROAD ACCIDENTS
- RIOTS
- SUBMARINES
- SWIMMING
- UNVEILING CEREMONIES
- YARMOUTH
- YARMOUTH
- VERNOT, GEORGE
Copyright Status:
Copyright expired.
Restrictions on Consultation:
~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
Donor Restrictions:
No donor restrictions.
Notes:
- 1. Source of description: CDS research notes; research notes are available.
- 2. Re-edited newsreel for Canadian Theatres made from British and American Pathe news items.
- 3. The copyright on the actuality footage in this newsreel has expired 50 years after the date of creation. However, the copyright on the animated segment was in effect until 50 years after the death of the creator - given the 90-year rule, the copyright on these segments expired 31 December 2009.
- 4. Ontario Censor Board approval stamp.
Consultation copy:
- V1 9003-0002
- V1 2010-01-0003
