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:
- Cenotaph Inaugurated in School Playground. Sir Rosslyn Wemyss does the honours as school boys pay tribute to the fallen. Sir Rosslyn is seen depositing a wreath at St. John's High School cenotaph in London. The boys deposit wreaths at the monument to fallen graduates.
- British Regiment Returns Home from India. Croydon's Territorial Battalion, the Queen's West Surreys, are acclaimed by the populace. Men are seen marching, depositing their colours, etc.
- Winter Comes to Derbyshire. Footage of: a snow covered right-of-way; a boy skiing and falling; and people sliding down a hill on sleighs.
- Toronto Warehouse Burns Down. Men are shown rummaging through debris of a Dominion Glass Works Building in Toronto.
- President Venustiano Carranza of Mexico. Carranza rides a state carriage on his way to the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City as mounted soldiers provide the escort. Soldiers and sailors march to the National Palace for a flag presentation ceremony. Carranza is shown presenting the flag.
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- ARMED FORCES
- DERBYSHIRE
- ENGLAND
- FIRES
- GREAT BRITAIN
- MEXICO
- MEXICO CITY
- ONTARIO
- SCHOOLS
- TOBOGGANING
- TORONTO
- WAR MEMORIALS
- WINTER
- MEXICO. EJÉRCITO CONSTITUCIONALISTA
- CARRANZA, VENUSTIANO
- WEMYSS, ROSSLYN
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 report and CDS research notes.
- 2. Research notes available.
- 3. Re-edited newsreel for Canadian Theatares made from US and British Pathé news items and Canadian footage.
- 4. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
