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
Title:
Vol. 1, Issue 52 : [excerpt]
Series title:
International News
Production company:
- International Film Service Co. Inc.
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Universal Film Manufacturing Co.
Description:
- A series of 7 short newsreel stories. 1. Newsreel story entitled "On a Flying Fish at 71 miles per hour". Alexander Graham Bell at the wheel of his hydrofoil with a young boy seated beside him; another man climbs out; several shots of the hydrofoil speeding toward and away from the camera; and the shoreline of Baddeck Lake as seen from the speeding craft being piloted by F.W. "Casey" Baldwin, the co-inventor of the hydrofoil and manager of Bell's Baddeck, Nova Scotia estate and laboratory. The hydrofoil is described in the intertitles as the world's fastest water craft. 2. Newsreel story entitled: "Snapping the Whip!". Tobaganning at Big Bear Lake, California. 3. Newsreel story entitled: "Daffy News". A humouristic take on news headlines. 4. Newsreel story entitled: "France Acclaims the Triumph of Carpenter". The new heavyweight champion shown in Boulogne, France. 5. Newsreel story entitled: "Floods Imperial Lives in Philippine Villages". Images of villagers affected by flooding near Manila, Philippines. 6. Newsreel story entitled: "America Bids Farewell to Red Agitators". Over 300 undesirables from the United States board the "Soviet Ark" at Ellis Island for deportation to Europe. 7. Newsreel story entitled: "A Real Movie Fire". Antique fire-fighting methods result in destruction of Solax Film Laboratories in Fort Lee, New Jersey.<11mn>
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- BRAS D'OR LAKE
- HYDROFOIL BOATS
- BELL, ALEXANDER G.
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. Canadian distribution: Canadian Universal Film Co. Ltd.
- 2. Canadian release date: 17 December 1919.
- 3. Source of description: CDS research notes.
- 4. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 5. On 9 September 1919 Bell's HD-4 hydrofoil set a world marine speed record of 70.86 miles per hour.
- 6. This excerpt was used in the Beyond the Printed Word exhibition.
