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:
- British Government Cuts Construction of Warships. Footage of idle shipyard on the Clyde.
- Dublin Royal Horse Show. Footage of crowd at Balls Bridge Track; the sulky race; two four-in-hands; the steeplechase; and one horse refusing to negotiate a hedge.
- The Prince of Wales Inspects a Sawmill. The prince, dressed in street clothes, arriving at a sawmill near Vancouver; being welcomed; touring the mill with a crowd of dignitaries; and leaving by car.
- New Tractor Plough Makes Its Debut. Invented by L.A. Desy of Montreal, the plough is shown at work in a field outside Montreal.
- Chicago Captures Third Game of World Series. Footage of: fans in the bleachers; views of the field and players; Dick Kerr throwing a pitch; a large crowd gathered beneath a scoreboard in New York, following the progress of the game being played in Chicago; the Chicago White Sox team - Leibold, E. Collins, Weaver, Jackson, Felsch, Gandil, Risberg, Schalk, and Murphy; and the Cincinnati Reds - Rath, Daubert, Groh, Roush, Duncan, Kopf, Neale, Wingo, and Ring.
- Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox Open World Series Championship Games in Cincinnati. Footage of: fans in the bleachers; the two teams before the game; Pat Moran of Cincinnati and another man shaking hands; various plays intercut with fans cheering; the stadium and the game in progress; the final score - the Reds win 9-1; the star of the game, pitcher Reuther of the Reds, shakes hands with another player; and a large Coca-Cola sign.
- Damage Caused by Lynch Mob. Footage of: damaged court-house rubble in Omaha, Nebraska in the wake of the riot in which a mob tried to sieze a Black prisoner in order to lynch him; a pawn shop wrecked by rioters in their search for firearms; and armed troops in the streets.
- Odds and Ends. Footage of: Judge Elbert H. Gary, head of the Steel Corporation, and William Z. Foster, secretary and organizer of a strike by Steel Workers; Dr. Cary T. Grayson, physician to President Wilson, posing in uniform; and Brigadier-General [Critchely], Britian's youngest general at 29 years of age. <8mn 48s>
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- BASEBALL
- BRITISH COLUMBIA
- CHICAGO
- CINCINNATI
- DUBLIN
- ENGLAND
- HORSE RACING
- ILLINOIS
- INVENTIONS
- IRELAND
- NEBRASKA
- OHIO
- OMAHA
- PLOWS
- QUEBEC
- RACISM
- RIOTS
- SAWMILLS
- SHIPYARDS
- VANCOUVER
- VISITS OF STATE
- WORLD SERIES
- CHICAGO WHITE SOX
- CINCINNATI REDS
- CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES, 1948-
- CRITCHLEY, BRIG. GEN.
- FOSTER, WILLIAM Z.
- GARY, ELBERT H.
- GRAYSON, CARY T.
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. Re-edited newsreel for Canadian theatres made from US and British news items and Canadian footage.
- 4. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 5. The 1919 world series is the infamous series that was rigged, which later caused eight White Sox players to be banned for life.
Consultation copy:
- V1 8103-0057
- V1 9003-0002
