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:
- Surrey, England, Nineteen Mile Walk To Keep Fit. Race walkers pass spectators.
- Toronto, Duke and Duchess of Devonshire Attend The Annual Meeting of The Central Council of The Canadian Red Cross. Their Excellencies alight from their car and pose with the male and female members of the Red Cross.
- Vancouver, Disabled Veterans Demonstrate Use of Artificial Arms. Disabled veterans demonstrate the use of the "Canadian Convertable Arm" and "Bowler Hook". Men use carpentry tools and farm implements.
- Toronto, College Girls Play Hockey. Game between women from Victoria and Varsity Colleges, University of Toronto. The stands are empty and there are only a handfull of fans. The girls skate in bloomers.
- Mexico City, Mexico, Japanese Sailors Entertained By Mexican Senoritas. Mexican women pose with sailors from the Yakumo. The Japanese put on a display of Keno and Jiu-Jitsu.
- Washington, District of Columbia, Delegation At White House Requests Extension of Government Control over Railroads. Delegates of Labour, Farmers and Railroad Brotherhoods are shown in front of the White House. Frank Morrison, Labour delegate, shakes hands with another delegate. Washington also introduces new method to solve traffic accident problems in court. Cut to model intersection, two men demonstrate how an accident happened at trail. Animated sequence of three model cars getting involved in an accident.
- Saranac Lake, New York, Equal Honours Shared in National Championship Skating. Views of race, winners are Roy McWhirter and Everett McGowan. Cuts to festival, floats on sleds, dressed up participants on ice. One of the floats refers to prohibition with a fake tombstone reading: "John Barleycorn - Gone But Not Forgotten.". Another has the Statue of Liberty and men dressed as soldiers and women as nurses. View of the town from the ski hill and sequence on ski jumping.
- Paris, France, Great War Officially Ended in France. Intertitle only, no accompanying picture. <8mn>
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- ARTIFICIAL LIMBS
- DISABLED VETERANS
- FESTIVALS
- HOCKEY
- JIU-JITSU
- KENDO
- MEXICO CITY
- PROHIBITION
- SARANAC LAKE
- SKI JUMPING
- SPEED SKATING
- SPORTS FOR WOMEN
- SUSSEX
- TORONTO
- TRADE UNIONS
- TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION
- WALKING
- WARSHIPS
- WASHINGTON
- CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY
- UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
- VICTORIA COLLEGE
- DEVONSHIRE, DUKE & DUCHESS
- MORRISON, FRANK
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. Research notes are available.
- 3. Actuality footage over 50 years. Copyright expired.
- 4. Authorized by the Board of Censors of the Province of Quebec.
- 5. Re-edited newsreel for Canadian Theatres made from British and American Pathé News items.
Consultation copy:
- V1 8504-0145
- V1 9003-0001
- V1 8311-0044
