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:
- Newsreel with the following stories:
- San Francisco, Inventor Exhibit.
- Samuel Orben pictured with his 13 foot model battleship.
- New York, Shriner Parade.
- The Shriners hold a parade with horse-drawn floats, costumes and a circus monkey.
- Chicago, Police Dump Guns in Lake. Police parade past camera with weapons. On a harbour patrol boat they throw guns and knifes overboard. A bottle of nitro also goes over.
- Atlantic City, Babies Parade.
- A parade of costumed babies is held on the Atlantic City boardwalk. The winners are shown with their prize cups.
- New York, Bonnet Fashion.
- Women model the latest in summer fashion.
- New York, Gun Firing.
- Soldiers pull an artillery piece past the camera. One soldier demonstrates spotting by climbing a pole.
- Chicago, Carpenters Strike.
- Due to the strike women use saws and hammers to complete unfinished work.
- Oakland, California.
- Ladies Ride Surf Boards. Longshot of woman water skiing behind a motorboat.
- New York, Woman Surgeon Rides Ambulance.
- A woman surgeon rides an ambulance to the scene of an accident. She attends to the patient and escorts him back to the hospital. <10mn 35s>
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. Shot list available
- 2. Item titles derived from captions.
- 3. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
Consultation copy:
- V1 9802-0031
- V1 2011-09-0005
