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
Production company:
- Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Country of production:
us
Name of distributor:
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Description:
- Engineering - To Turn Niagara Falls Into Immense Power Plant. Federal Engineers plan to generate electrical power for the scores of factories and numerous cities for this American natural wonder.
- Our Animal Friends - Freak Animals of the Mexican Border. Some queer specimens that the men in the aviation school and army training camps in Texas meet on their daily rounds.
- Industry - Fine Points of a $10,000 Beauty. Record price is paid for Jersey cow in sale at Mt. Kisco, NY. Attended by breeders from all sections of the United States and Canada.
- United States and Canada - Education Making it Possible for the Blind to Read. Printing the Matilda Magazine, established by Mrs. William Ziegler of New York City and distributed for free to 15,000 blind in the United States and Canada.
- Comedy - A School of Educated Fish. Denizens of the briny that do everything by think. By Hy Mayer.
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. Most of this material is actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.
- 2. Manitoba Board of Censors approval stamp.
- 3. Hy Mayer, the creator of the cartoon, died in 1954 - copyright expired.
