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:
Hearst-Selig News Pictorial
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
General Film Company
Description:
- Try Giant Aeroplane Built by Americans for Czar of Russia. Marblehead, Massachusetts - New Burgess-Dunne aircraft is launched and given trial flight my Clifford Webster while English aviation officers look on. Footage includes: a man demonstrating the propeller action on a mock-up; the plane on a raft and being launched into the water; the plane being paddled, taxiing, taking off, and flying.
- American Girls Start for Europe to Help Care for Wounded.
- New York - Eleven Red Cross nurses sail for scene of world war aboard steamer Bergensfjord. They are eager to take up their duties. Footage includes: ten nurses posed for the camera and Miss Cora V. Johnson, the supervising nurse in charge.
- Welsh Troops Salute David Lloyd George at Formal Review. Llandudno, Wales - Great crowds greet Chancellor of the Exchequer as he arrives on St. David's Day (March 1) to inspect newly formed North Wales Brigade of Infantry. Footage includes: crowd scenes; Lloyd George surrounded by officers, walking past troops; the chancellor in the reviewing stand watching troops march by; two soldiers wearing the leek, the national emblem of Wales, on their hats. (N.B. The national flower of Wales is now the daffodil.)
- Officers on Furlough Follow Hounds over Hunt Club Course.
- Barby, England - Khaki clad army men ride in the field at fashionable Pytchley Hunt. Officers on short leave from the battlefield join fall meet.
- Footage includes: hounds gathering; the hunt; the hounds; men on horses.
- Russian War Captives by Thousands March to Detention Camp.
- Near Warsaw, Poland - Russian, German and Austrian soldiers captured after fighting in the Carpathian mountains are led under guard to prison camp. Footage includes: men marching past with soldiers on horseback guarding them and wounded prisoners being moved in small horse-drawn carriages (Russian droshkies).
- French Troops Reviewed at the Front by President Poincaré.
- Footage includes: soldiers (cavalry and infantry) marching in formation; trench filled with water; fighting at Ramscapelle with a line of soldiers firing over the top of a trench and other men running behind them; the Ramscapelle church and cemetery after the battle.
Language:
- Silent with English intertitles
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. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
