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:
Mutual Weekly
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Mutual Film Corporation
Description:
- The East and West Entrances to the Cello Canal Are Opened, Making the Columbia River Navigable For Several Hundred Miles. Several shots of explosions opening up entrances to the canal. Completion of the work made the Columbia River navigable for several hundred miles.
- Democratic Women Urge President Wilson To Support Nation-Wide Women's Suffrage. Shots of women around a podium sporting a banner reading National Democratic Women of America. The secretary of the Women's Political Union, Miss Alberta HIll, poses for the camera.
- New Orleans: Racing is Resumed at New Orleans After a 7 Year's Lapse of the Kingly Sport. Two shots of a horse race.
- The Only and Original Grand Opera Baby Poses with Her Parents for the Mutual Weekly. Shot of the threesome taking a stroll. The mother is Madame Matzenauer, Prima Donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The father is Signor Ferrari-Fontana, tenor at the Opera.
- Watervleit, New York: A Visit to Uncle Sam's Big Gun Factory at Watervleit, New York. How 16-inch guns are made. Shows gun barrels being machined at the Watervleit war plant.
- San Francisco's Olympic Clubmen Enjoy Mid-Winter Dip in the Pacific Ocean's Cheering Warmth. Shots of a large group of men wading itno the Pacific Ocean off San Francisco. Similar scene in Boston with the addition of chunks of ice floating in water.
- Pasadena, California: Annual Tournament of Roses at Pasadena, California, Awes 150,000 Beholders. Various shots of floats parading past the camera in Pasadena, California.
- This New Autosleigh Skims Over the Snow at a 35 Mile Per Hour Clip. Medium shots and longshots of propeller-driven sled being driven past the camera on the street of an unidentified town as a few people watch.
- Indian Soldiers Land in France. High angle shot over Indian soldiers parading past the camera on horseback and on foot. English Cavalry do police duty in Scarborough. Shots of cavalry moving past the camera through town after German bombardment. Territorials on route march. Shots of men cooking meal in the field. Wulpen Church near Dunkirk destroyed. Shots ruined church near Dunkirk.
- English Cavalry Enters Scarborough to do Police Duty After German Bombardment.
- Territorials Cooking on the March.
- Wulpen Church Near Dunkirk Destroyed. Note the crucifix came through the bombardment unharmed.
- Scarcity of Rubber in Europe Compels England and France To Buy Old Auto Tires in America.
- Japanese Red Cross Sends Doctors and Nurses to Europe. Japanese Consul, General Y. Numano, Gives Reception in Their Honour at San Francisco.
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, Library and Archives of Canada.
Notes:
- 1. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 2. Published by the Mutual Film Corporation, New York City.
