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
Release date:
1917-10-17 ?
Production company:
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Description:
- Second Liberty Loan Drive is on in Earnest. Notables in all parts of America and Uncle Sam in new campaign for funds.
- Pittsburg, Pa: 60,000 March in Great Liberty Loan Parade in Which Champ Clark Walks.
- U.S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D.C.: Help Wanted. Stenographers and typists $1,000 to $1,200 yearly to start, advancement rapid. This notice published by request of the United States Government.
- Stockton, Wisconsin: Passenger Trains in Fatal Head-on Collision. Both engineers lose lives when steel monsters crash into each other.
- Lima: Uncle Sam's First Standardized Liberty Truck. Built from plans approved by seventy auto manufacturers and first trip will be to national capital.
- Detroit, Michigan: Bad Roads Cut Out in Michigan. Formal opening of Northville outer belt drive marked by unique ceremonies.
- Brooklyn, New York: Allies Lose 800,000 Bushels of Wheat. Mysterious blaze, following explosions destroys $1,200,000 worth of grain.
- 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. This majority of material in this newsreel is actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 2. Hy Mayer, the creator of the cartoon segement of this film, died in 1954 - copyright expired.
