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:
- [Pageant at the "Cinque Ports"]. The pageant commemorates the days when the five ports centered round Sandwich, England, provided Britain with her ships. Sequence on a parade by costumed officials, and shots of the officials posing fror the camera.
- [Shriners Invade Vancouver]. Delegates on their way to a convention in Portland, Oregon gather in Vancouver. Seen is the ship crowded with delegates moving past the camera. The delegates, many in costumes, pose for the camera, parade in the streets of Vancouver.
- [Trial Race Between Shamrock Sail Boats]. Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV defeats another Shamrock sail boat. The two sail boats are seen racing. Sir Thomas Lipton watches the race through binoculars.
- [Amateur Sports in Montreal]. Sequences on baseball, lacrosse, boxing and tennis in a Montreal park.
- [Joan of Arc is Canonized]. Shots of St. Peters and a huge crowd. The interior of St. Peter's is seen as Pope Benedict XV says mass. Final view of the image of St. Joan being unveiled.
- [Launching of the Largest Concrete Ship Ever Built]. Various views of the oil-tanker "Cuymaca" showing the bow with the name visible, a huge propellor, and the hull on its blocks. Workmen can be seen preparing for the launch. Footage of the ship sliding down the ways and rolling as she floats.
- [Seaplane Port on the Hudson]. Establishing shot of the seaplane port showing a crowd of on-lookers and several seaplanes on the water. Three seaplanes fly past overhead while an airship hovers in the distance.
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- AIRPORTS
- AIRSHIPS
- BASEBALL
- BOXING
- BRITISH COLUMBIA
- CALIFORNIA
- CANONIZATION
- ENGLAND
- FRIENDLY SOCIETIES
- ITALY
- LACROSSE
- MONTRÉAL
- NEW YORK
- NEW YORK
- PAGEANTS
- PARADES
- QUEBEC
- ROME
- SAILBOAT RACING
- SAINT PETERS
- SAN DIEGO
- SANDWICH
- SHIPBUILDING
- SPORTS
- TANKERS
- TENNIS
- VANCOUVER
- VATICAN CITY
- ANCIENT ARABIC ORDER OF THE NOBLES OF THE MYSTIC SHRINE FOR NORTH AMERICA
- BENEDICT XV, POPE
- JOAN OF ARC
- LIPTON, THOMAS
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 are available.
- 3. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 4. Re-edited newsreel for Canadian Theatres made from US and British Pathé news items as well as Canadian footage.
Consultation copy:
- V1 8103-0057
- V1 8106-0049
- V1 9003-0001
