Collection search - Winter Sports

Record information – Brief

1

Winter Sports

Item number (ISN):

200840

Series title:

Winter Sports

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1903/1906

Item number (ISN):

200840

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

Link to this record

Add to My Research

Link to this record

This link identifies the web page describing this particular record. Unlike the temporary link in your browser, this link will allow you to access, and reference, this page in the future. To link to this descriptive record, copy and paste the URL where ever needed (wiki, blog, document).

Sign in

Sign in to start saving records using My Research

Sign in
Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE

Accession:

1973-0210

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1903/1906

Production company:

Charles Urban Trading Company

Production credit:

TOSSING THE PHOTOGRAPHER and ICE YACHTING ON THE ST. LAWRENCE: photography, Joseph Rosethal; F. Guy Bradford; Cliff Denham; HOCKEY ON SKATES and THE BATTLE OF THE SNOW: photography, F. Ormiston-Smith

Description:

Show detail Hide detail

A series of films depicting various winter sports. Sports from Switzerland and Canada are central. These include sleighing, ice-yachting, skating, cock-fighting, wrestling, racing, and hockey.~Of the titles included in this compilation are:~[TOSSING THE PHOTOGRAPHER]. Members of the "Old Tuque Blue" snowshoeing club of Montreal toss Joe Rosenthal in a blanket.~[HOCKEY ON SKATES]. An interest film of a game of hockey in progress in the Alps.~[ICE YACHTING ON THE ST. LAWRENCE]. Various shots of ice yachts on the St. Lawrence River.~[THE BATTLE OF THE SNOW]. A snow-balling contest between schoolboys in which a number are seen storming their adversaries on a hill. <11mn>~[FUN ON THE SKATING RINK AFTER A SNOWSTORM IN THE ALPS]. Men and women skaters are shown helping to clear a skating rink after a snowstorm, they throw snowballs at each other and empty baskets of snow over one another.~[MERRY BOYS AND GIRLS IN SNOWY SWITZERLAND]. School children at Grindelwald are seen racing from a school with toboggans, followed by shots of the children descending a hill in rapid succession on their toboggans.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

Show detail Hide detail

1. Charles Urban Trading Company, London.~2. This is a compilation film, title unknown, which is composed of items listed separately in the Urban and Warwick catalogues and which were also included in three other compilation films released under the titles UNIVERSAL WINTER SPORTS (1904), INTERNATIONAL WINTER SPORTS (1904), and NORTHERN ICE SPORTS.

Detailed holdings information:

Show detail Hide detail

Vault ISN:

200885

Format:

FILM

Location number:

CFI-5230/A

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

200886

Format:

FILM

Location number:

CFI-V1-15

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

RED PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

200887

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

13-0964

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

273790

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9601-0036

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9601-0036

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : see individual IDCs for each title : with permission of BFI

You can order materials in advance to be ready for you when you visit. You will need a user card to do this.

Cannot visit us on site? You can purchase a copy to be sent to you. Some restrictions may apply.