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:
Universal Animated Weekly
Production company:
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Description:
- Chicago, Illinois: Tank Bombards Eligibles For Recruits. Carries an appeal and assurance to men who are needed now by Uncle Sam.
- Near Atlanta Georgia: Finish Training Course With Nine Day Hike. Fort McPherson student officers, "marching through Georgia", please natives.
- Washington, D.C.: Secretary McAdoc Entertains "Four Minute Men". Group of Orators who in four minute speeches, will inform the public on vital issues, are honoured.
- Sheepshead Bay speedway, New York: De Palma Now World's Speed King. At 110 miles per hour in his aviation-type motor packard he beats Chevrolet and Olfield.
- San Francisco, California: Imperial Japanese Mission Here For War Conference. Headed by Viscount K Ishii, distinguished orientals are welcomed to America.
- Atlantic City, New Jersey: Heated Cities "Overflow" Into the Sea. Millions, during record season, make the ocean in-spots a very crowded pond.
- New York City: Gas Mask Demonstration in Heart of Metropolis. Various types in use on French front shown in Union Square.
- Cicero, Illinois: By Chat and Chart Our Fighters Learn French. Professor of Gordon-Detuiller Institute aids soldiers in simple and practical way to use French military and other terms.
- Portland, Oregon: Linen Venus Steps Forth, Crowds Flock Round. Fashion parade at Columbia Beach proves no one section of America has a corner in beauty.
- New York City: "Fighting 69th" N.Y. Start For France. Cheered by millions, the "Fighting Irish" start for way-to-station on road to Berlin.
- Cartoons by Hy Mayer, world famous caricaturist.
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. Stills available for stories 9, 10 and 11. See DPSS.
- 2. The majority of material in this newsreel is actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 3. Hy Mayer, the creator of the cartoon segement of this film, died in 1954 - copyright expired.
