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 Current Events
Production company:
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Description:
- Young America Must Have Its Place in the News. Future rulers of the world's democracy hold great preparedness parade in New York.
- Haiti, West Indies - All Weird Dancers Are Not in Cabarets. Haitian coffee workers give annual exhibition of wild dances brought to America by slave ancestors.
- Fordham, N.Y. - Don't Howl at the Hight Cost of Living. Follow This Example. Employees at Fordham Hospital plant all available space with seeds in oder to defeat soaring prices.
- Rio Janeiro - French Bark Reaches Port With Victims of Raider "Seeadler". French bark "Cambrowne" carrying crews of eleven sunken vessels reaches South American port.
- New York City - Joseph H. Chaote, Great American Statesman at Rest. After strenuous activities giving wlecome to French and British war missions, former Ambassador to Great Britian succumbs.
- Queenston - American Hornets Such as Will Sting U-Boats to Death. Torpedo destroyer flotilla from United States arrives unheralded in European waters to hunt for submarines.
- New York, N.Y. - We Haven't Been Altogether Asleep About Some Things. Our armoured cars, motor machine guns and drivers are the equal of any in the world, but we need more of them.
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. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 2. Missing stories: Preparedness - Your Duty Above All Else; Washington D.C - Clark's Son an Army Volunteer; Offical French War Pictures; and USA - Preparing Love Notes for Mister Wilhelm.
