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
Release date:
1917-10-26 ?
Production company:
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Description:
- Fairfield Hotel, Norfolk, Va. - Liberty Loan Booster completely up in the air gives buyers cold creeps and goose flesh. Daredevil Ward, member of the U.S. Aviation Corps, in patriotic cause proves he is fine material for war service.
- San Francisco, Ca. - Collapsing firetrap kills three firemen. Scores injured in lodging house fire that burned like tinder.
- Boston, Mass. - Dedicating world's largest salt water park, Cardinal says mass for our boys. Columbus Park scene of impressive ceremony as Cardinal O'Connell prays for safe return of our soldiers and sailors abroad.
- Norfolk, Va. - World's greatest naval base formally opened. Operating unit impressively dedicated and receives 1,800 men from old station.
- Laurel Race Track - "Hourless" defeats "Omar Khayyan" setting new world recrod and wins $1,000 for Red Cross. Belmont's three year-old colt thrills 20,000 in great turf battle on 2-turn track, runs 1 1/4 miles in 2 minutes and 2 seconds.
- New York City - First German sea-wolf to actually invade New York Harbor is one with fangs and venom removed. UC-5 captured and tamed by the British, will rest in Central Park and help bond sales.
- France's Immortals honoured for bravery. No sex distinction in rewarding the spirit that has made France the idol of humanity.
- Cartoons. From the world's greatest newspapers (Darling, Buffalo Evening News; Blackman, Birmingham Age Herald; Darling, Boston Herald).
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.
