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 Screen Magazine
Release date:
1918-01-26/1918-01-29 ?
Production company:
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Description:
- SALTING MINES: Re-enactment of the two crooks loading a shotgun with gold leaf and blasting away at a rock face. A mining engineer examines the "gold mine". Meanwhile, another crook injects worthless ore with a liquid gold solution. GOAT FARM: Mrs Jennie Watson runs a goat farm. Various droll views of Mrs Watson caring for her goats, milking same, injecting milk from goat's udder into the wide-open mouth of a protesting baby, leaving by truck with husband, baby and goats in crates. One goat poses with the baby. A prize-winning Nubian Buck, patriarch of the herd, is displayed by Mrs. Watson. AUTOMATED PACKAGING: Sequence on cartons being shaped by machines, being filled with Holstad's Coffee, being wrapped in wax paper, etc. Close-up's of components of machinery in motion, product going through. Final of completed package being tested in water. ANIMATED X-RAY PICTURES: "First time in history that the lens of the motion picture camera - by means of the marvelous X-ray - has penetrated flesh and reproduced the naked bones in actual movement." Taken under the supervision of Dr. E.L. Crusisu. Two views of X-Ray machine parts. No views of animated X-Ray pictures.
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.
