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 Government Official News = [British War Office Official News Film]
Production company:
- Foreign release version from the series PICTORIAL NEWS (Official)
- Topical Film Company Ltd.
Sponsor:
- British Ministry of Information
Country of production:
cn
Name of distributor:
Specialty Film Import Ltd.
Description:
- Demobilisation Speed-Up. A troop ship is seen plowing through the water with soldiers crowding the decks. The men disembark and walk along a railway station platform.
- The Great Oil-Fields of Baku. Hundreds of oil rigs, long held by Germany and Turkey, but now in possession of the British.
- The Peacemakers. David Lloyd George, A.J. Balfour with Sir Douglas Haig, G.N. Barnes, and A. Bonar Law are shown in various locations. Embarking at Folkstone are British Empire peace delegates: the Maharajah of Bikaner, India, General Botha of South Africa, Sir Robert Borden of Canada, E.S. Montagu from India, W.M. Hughes of Australia, and Lloyd George. The caption reads: "The Greatest Peace Council of History has begun its tasks. Civilisation and the happiness of mankind depend on the delegates' achievements. The whole world will pray that their efforts to devise means whereby international disputes can be settled otherwise than by warfare will meet with success".
- More U-Boats Surrender. A U-Boat is seen partially submerged at sea, docking at an English port, and travelling at speed on the surface.
- Italian Warship at Harwich. The Italian warship Libia is in Harwich to take over two pirate boats. Shots of the ship with sailors moving around on deck.
- The U-Boat Fleet Off Harwich. Rows of U-Boats.
- Britain's K-Boats. An airship is seen in flight. It hovers over a surfaced submarine to exchange communications before flying off. The submarine, the largest in the world, according to the caption, submerges.
- Canadians Going Home. Canadian troops board The Olympic, the ship that will bring them home. Seen are crowded docks and the ship's decks before departure from Southampton.
- To Resist Bolsheviks. Assyrian and Armenian volunteers who have joined up at Hamadan, Persia to fight the Bolsheviks, undergo a medical examination. Men are seen lined up as an officer inspects the insides of their mouths. <5mn 43s>
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
Subjects:
- AIRSHIPS
- BAKU
- CONGRESSES & CONVENTIONS
- MILITARY TRANSPORTATION
- OIL FIELDS
- PEACE
- WARSHIPS
- CANADA. CANADIAN ARMY
- GREAT BRITAIN. ARMY
- GREAT BRITAIN. NAVY
- OLYMPIC
- BALFOUR, ARTHUR J.
- BARNES, G.N.
- BORDEN, ROBERT
- BOTHA, LOUIS
- GANGA SINGH, MAHARAJA OF BIKANER
- HAIG, DOUGLAS
- HUGHES, WILLIAM M.
- LAW, BONAR
- LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID
- MONTAGU, EDWIN S.
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: Archivist's research notes; notes are available for consultation.
- 2. Durations are approximate.
- 3. Item titles are derived from the captions.
- 4. Distributed by Specialty Film Import Ltd. in Canada.
- 5. Released 23 January 1919 and again 30 January 1919 in the UK.
- 6. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
Consultation copy:
- V1 9806-0028
- V1 2006-12-0009
