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:
- United States of America - Treasury hero and prominent citizens finish bond drive. Nation-wide campaign on First War Loan brings help from many sources.
- Dearborn, Michigan - Henry Ford's latest gift to humanity, his famous tractor, the patents of which he gave to the British government, which is now making 100 per day.
- Quincy, Ill. - Western states lose lives and millions by rains and floods. Illinois dam bursts, ruining 10,000 acres of wheat and flooding farm land for miles around.
- Washington, D.C. - Practical training of our women fits them for war service, in drills and classes that show form and skill equalled only by thoroughly trained troops.
- Boston, Mass. - "Sea-sleds" latest thing in naval aids for rescue work and submarine hunting in open sea at forty-five miles per hour.
- New York Harbor: Collides With Monitor - Is Beached in Harbor. S.S. Manchuria hits Monitor Amphitrite and is rushed to mud flats for safety.
- Buffalo, N.Y. - New York state buys sheep for farmers to fight food prices. 6000 head brought from west coast to be distributed in move to reduce high cost of living.
- New York City - "Little Henrys" carry the quieting punch. Ford cars equipped for riot and war service to be used by police and militia.
- In France - Even French orphans are not exempt from gas attacks. Little tots drilled in uses of latest gas mask that they may survive this inhuman method of slaughter.
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.
