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:
Pathé's Weekly
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
General Film Company
Description:
- New York, N.Y. Mayor Kline and the Board of Estate leave city hall to attend the first public demonstration of the new auto stages produced for use in this city by the People's Five Cent Bus Corporation. The stages are similar in design to the modern surface car.
- Newark, N.J. The children of this city turn out in large numbers to celebrate Halloween in the old fashioned style.
- Tinidad. In a twelve-hour battle between the mine strikers and the deputy sheriffs, the Pathé camerman is on the strikers firing line with the bullets flying around him.
- Treves, Germany. Emperor William II views the remains of the Roman occupancy of this place and inspects the new Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge.
- Mobile, Alabama. President Wilson visits this city to attend the Southern Commercial Congress.
- Hot Springs, Ark. The raising of the new flag of Arkansas at the state fair is presented by a parade in which the governor and other state officials take part.
- New York, N.Y. Olive Frenstad, the famous opera singer, leaves Madison Square Garden after singing before 15,000 people at the Fusion Political Rally.
- Mill Valley, Cal. The Californian Cycle Club starts on its annual run.
- By Bud Fisher. A comic section where Mutt doesn't care for a young lady's last name.
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. Description based on PDC card.
- 2. Most of this is actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 3. Bud Fisher, the creator of the Mutt and Jeff segment, died in 1954 - copyright expired.
