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:
- Help Wanted. U.S. calls for trained workers for aviation branch of Signal Corps. Skilled mechanics liable in the draft are privileged up to December 15th to procure good positions in this branch of the service.
- Merced, Cal. - Auto stalled on track causes big train wreck. Many injured when locomotive and cars are overturned after truck balked at railway crossing.
- Paris, France - Hooverizes garbage into black diamonds. French inventor shows Americans how a mixture of kitchen leavings and sawdust will break the present coal famine.
- Fort Sheridan, Ill. - Governors of two states see our future officers. Members of the Second Officers' Reserve Corps are inspected by Governors Sleeper of Michigan and Capper of Kansas.
- Somewhere on the High Seas - Manufacturing muscle abroad French warship. Since the German fleet has been bottled up, sailors under the Tricolour keep in trim by setting up exercises aboard their ships.
- Polo Grounds, New York City - Aviators sink sailors' football hopes 14 to 7. Naval Reserves are defeated by the Aviation Corps' eleven in close battle.
- Mexico City, Mexico - Carranza takes oath as Mexican President. Ambassadors of all the warring countries attend inauguration of leader who is brining internal peace to our sister republic.
- Cartoons From the World's Greatest Newspapers (title only).
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 story 7. See DPSS.
- 2. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 3. Manitoba Censor Board approval stamp.
