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The Fiftieth Birthday of the Movies

Item number (ISN):

244321

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1949/1959 ?

Item number (ISN):

244321

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MILLER, Cecil J.

Accession:

1980-0196

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1949/1959 ?

Production credit:

narrator, John B. Kennedy; Adelaide Hawley; editing, Bill Stern

Description:

Compilation of film footage includes the following: the widow of Thomas Edison demonstrating the kinetoscope to Will Hayes; Thomas Edison with Henry Ford; the first leading man in movies, Arthur White, in THE LIFE OF AN AMERICAN FIREMAN; boxing with Canadian Tommy Burns vs Bill Squires; early cars; an Easter Parade of 1890s; sewing machine girls; an early beauty pageant; Manhattan's 'L' train; Market Street in San Francisco; and Lillian Russell and Teddy Roosevelt and his Roughriders.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. 16mm b/w positive optical track.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

280991

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9605-0043

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

314751

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9810-0006

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

997295

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9810-0007

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8708-0028
7605-0184
7301-8433
V1-97
8003-0227
7911-0114
8614-9953
8614-9954
9309-0119
1590-A
7601-0136
9605-0043

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1124501

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

9605-0043-DPX

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

4:48

Made from:

9605-0043

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1124502

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9605-0043.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

4:48

Made from:

9605-0043

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1124503

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

244321.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

4:48

Made from:

9605-0043

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1124504

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

244321.MP4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

4:48

Made from:

9605-0043

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9810-0006

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

varies according to the copyright status of the individual films : no donor restrictions

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