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:
Topics of the Day
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Pathé Exchange, Inc.
Description:
- A compilation of quotes, remarks and stories, relayed humorously. Compiled from the press of the world by the LITERARY DIGEST. Where is that bird who wrote "Ireland Must be Heaven." -- Pittsburgh (Pa.) Gazette. This overall movement would be great if people would work in them more and parade in them less -- New York Globe. It has just about got so in this country that the only way for a stranger to attract friends is to stagger when he walks -- Dallas (Tex.) News. Blood test proves monkey origin of man, says a scientist. Why monkey with blood tests? Mr. Bryan is in no hurry about throwing his hat in the ring. He has lost three good hats that way -- Toledo (O.) Blade. When a moving picture friend of ours orders hash in a restaurant he always says: "Gimme some of the weekly review" -- Youngstown (O.) Telegram. "I'm Gonna Jazz My Way Thru Paradise" is a new song. We'll just bet a cookie the writer is mixed on location. -- Youngstown (O.) Telegram. "Don't you miss a man around the house?" "Why should I? The stove is smoking and the parrot is swearing." - Duluth (Minn.) Herald. Boston is building a house in one of its parks to house a number of lions. It will cost $75,000. Everybody seems able to get a home except a human being. -- Manitoba (Canada) Free Press. "Pat, here's the dollar I borrowed of ye last week." "Bedad, Mike, I'd forgot all about it." "Ooh, why the divil didn't ye say so?" -- Winnipeg (Canada) Free Press. "I tell you, I am a self-made man." "Is that so -- " "Who interrupted you?" -- Boston Transcript. Announcement: It's object having been achieved in many states, the Teachers' Contest closes with this issue. We wish to thank the exhibitor, the public, the teachers and the many administration officials for their support and indulgence of such a worthy cause. -- Topics of the Day. She (during the quarrel - "You never deserved a wife like me!" He -- "And I never deserved the rheumatism but I got it just the same. -- Toronto (Canada) World.
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. Saskatchewan Censor Board approval stamp.
- 2.. The Moving Picture World, March 6, 1920, Volume 43, No. 10, p. 1665, contains a report on a TOPICS OF THE DAY campaign to get higher pay for teachers (this may be the contest referred to in this film).
