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:
- Rugby Season Under Way. McGill regulars open the 1920 season with an 11 to 2 victory over squad "Old Boys". Footage includes: teams posing; coach "Shag" Shaughnessy looking things over; excerpts from the game; and the crowd in the stands.
- Businessmen Visit Annapolis Valley. Businessmen arrive during apple-picking time. Footage includes: apple picking by the barrelfull and of the men having a corn feed.
- Automobile Polo. Footage of automobile polo in the Vancouver Exhibition Stadium with much dust all around.
- Self-Propelled Gun at Camp Jackson. A large self-propelled gun on caterpillar tracks shoulders a frame building aside, lumbers though dense brush, and fires in clouds of smoke. The demonstration took place at Camp Jackson near Columbia, South Carolina.
- British Take Over German Floating Dock. Footage of: a huge dock being towed across the English Channel from Kiel Canal to Sheerness, England. Also shown is the newly launched "Towers of War", the uses of which are not identified.
- Tide of Immigrants Detained on Ship. Ellis Island is shown as seen from a ship. The building is closed for two days because of a backlog in processing immigrants. Footage of: happy immigrants on a ship; people disembarking; posing; Mme Schumann-Heink singing "The Star Spangled Banner" as she stands against a backdrop made out of a large Stars and Stripes.
- History Pageant at Omaha, Nebraska. A float parade organized for the History Pageant in the Ak-Sar-Ben Festival in Omaha.
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- ANNAPOLIS RIVER VALLEY
- APPLE HARVESTING
- ARMAMENTS
- AUTOMOBILE RALLIES
- BRITISH COLUMBIA
- COLLEGE SPORTS
- DRY DOCKS
- ELLIS ISLAND
- EMIGRATION & IMMIGRATION
- FESTIVALS
- MONTRÉAL
- NEBRASKA
- NEW YORK
- NOVA SCOTIA
- OMAHA
- PARADES
- QUEBEC
- RUGBY FOOTBALL
- SHIPS
- SOUTH CAROLINA
- UNITED STATES
- VANCOUVER
- MCGILL UNIVERSITY
- SCHUMANN-HEINK, MME
- SHAUGHNESSY, "SHAG"
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: screening reports and CDS research notes.
- 2. Notes are available.
- 3. Re-edited newsreel for Canadian Theatres made from U.S. and British Pathé news items and Canadian footage.
- 4. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
