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12A

Item number (ISN):

43610

Series title:

British Canadian Pathé News

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1920

Item number (ISN):

43610

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Type of material:

Moving images

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Accession:

1979-0191

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1920

Release date:

1920

Production company:

Canadian version
Specialty Film Import Ltd.

Production credit:

producer, Leo E. Ouimet

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Specialty Film Import Ltd.

Description:

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Yahk, B.C. Hauling Logs in B.C. Men pile logs on a horse-drawn cart. Load is eased downhill, held in check by a mechanical apparatus supervised by an operator. The horse-drawn cart carrying the logs is attached to a small machine by ropes. A man controls the machine. It contols the load by means of a series of pulleys. The cart reaches the bottom of the hill. At the bottom of the hill, other men unload the logs from the cart, and prepare to load logs into freight cars to be taken to the mills. ~New York City: Everybody takes a hand at the city's snow shovel -- soldiers help in clearing thoroughfares of the heavy 14-inch snowfall. Soldiers and civilians are shown shovelling some of the snowfall as trucks cart loads of it away. Civilians clear a sidewalk. A man in chef's clothing shovels snow. Trucks filled with snow pull away. Army trucks are called into service. Two shots of a truck ploughing. The unusual cold snap leads the Commissioner of Parks to distribute wood to the city's needy. People fill sacks with firewood and haul them away on sleds. ~Washington, D.C.: Wanted -- 75,000 men for the Army! Secretary of War Newton D. Baker signs letters to be sent to state governors to launch recruiting drive for the regular service. There is a medium shot of Baker at his desk, singing a large pile of letters. Baker shakes hands with a young man identified in the intertitle as Recruit No. 1, on a street. An intertitle says "This chap tried it once, found it O.K., and comes back for more!" There is a close-up of a young man looking over the shoulder of an officer, who is filling out a form. ~El Paso, Texas: Pershing at the Border again! Mexican border veterans welcome their old chief as he arrives on a visit to his home port. Cavalry officers gallop towards the camera. A mounted military band plays as troops march by Generals Pershing and Howze. With General Howze, he reviews the men he once commanded, in the Pershing Expedition into Mexico. General Pershing is in the left foreground, as troops march and ride past in the background. Mounted soldiers race by in clouds of dust. A wagontrain, with two wagons being towed by First World War Renault tanks, moves by the reviewing stand. Small tanks pull two wagons. Pershing visits San Antonio, mingles with the crowd, is shown seated in the back of an open car and from Kelly Field watches two flights of planes fly past in formation against heavy cloud cover. Pershing watches from the open car.~Rockaway Point, New York. Steamer aground in storm. Over 100 lives are in danger as Princess Anne is stranded on sandbar in 10 feet of water. Footage, from shore, shows the large cargo ship listing in the water. A second shot from a different angle, shows the ship's name, Princess Anne, New York. An intertitle reads "Exclusive scenes of the transfer of passengers from life-boats t the police boat Patrol"; footage shot from the Patrol shows two lifeboats approaching. There is a close shot of passengers being helped aboard. Food supplies are rushed to the crew of the stranded vessel. A long shot shows the Princess Anne and a small rowboat which is moving away from the ship. Shot of the small boat pulling alongside. Large barrels are loaded into the rowboat from the Princess Anne. Shot of Captain Hallock and Lieutenanat Dobert on the deck of the "Patrol".~Poplar, London: Transforming one of the most crowded and poorest sections of the metropolis into a garden city is commenced by George Lansbury, Labour M.P., who cuts the first sod. While a large group looks on, he breaks the ground with a pick and begins to shovel the dirt. Medium shot of him making a speech. ~Southampton: Earl Grey Arrives from America. Shots of an ocean liner being towed into harbour in Southampton and a passenger boat leaving the liner. Earl Grey is shown on deck and posing for the camera. An intertitle asks whether Earl Grey will be the first president of the League of Nations. <6mn 40s>

Subjects:

ARMED FORCES~BRITISH COLUMBIA~CARGO SHIPS~ENGLAND~HOUSING~LIFE SAVING~LOGGING~MILITARY CEREMONIES, HONOURS & SALUTES~NEW YORK ~OCEAN LINERS~POPLAR ~RECRUITING & ENLISTMENT~RITES & CEREMONIES~SHIPWRECKS~SOUTHAMPTON ~STORMS~UNITED STATES~PRINCESS ANNE ~UNITED STATES. ARMY~BAKER, NEWTON D.~GREY, EDWARD~LANSBURY, GEORGE~PERSHING, JOHN J.

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Original number:

D-262

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1. Source of description: Archivist's research notes.~2. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.~3. Re-edited newsreel for Canadian Theatres made from U.S. and British Pathe News items as well as Canadian footage.~4. Dawson finding aid shotlist includes two more stories. The first is from Fazley, England about the wedding of actress Beatrice Lillie and Robert Peel of the famous family associated for centuries with British politics (showing her posing in her wedding dress, moving through a crowd, posing with the wedding party and posing with her husband.~5. The final story in the Dawson shotlist, is about the British Labour Party. The defeat of Sir John Simon, late Solicitor General, by Tom Myers in Spen Valley elections, caused sensations in county's politics. Footage shows a crowd gathered on some steps, a series of numbers displayed on a hand-held board (election results) and two men each take a turn addressing a crowd. J. O'Grady, M.P., a Labour Party leader, leaves for Copenhagen to resume negotiations with Litvinoff for the exchange of Allied prisoners. O'Grady and others are shown moving across a gangplank, onto a ship.~6. Screening required to confirm if there are 7 or 9 stories in this newsreel.
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Consultation copy number:

V1 9003-0001

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Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

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