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[When Grandpa was Young]

Item number (ISN):

11344

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1895/1909

Item number (ISN):

11344

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

ANONYMOUS

Accession:

1976-0218

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1895/1909

Description:

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Pre-World War I street scenes with pedestrians, flivvers, horse-drawn street cars, etc. A newsboy sells papers as a policeman strolls by. Shots of a room full of seamstresses at work and women punching in. Shots of Fifth Avenue around Easter - top hat de rigeur. Men are shown moving past a cordon of police as they enter a subway station. Women and two men in turn-of-the-century dress are seen in a lobby. Shots of a tennis match with close-ups of the racquets, a woman in a long white dress and a man in knickers. Fashionable women are shown strolling past the camera.~The following people are seen: Sarah Bernhardt in a carriage; John Bunny; A.G. Bell; Teddy Roosevelt and his Roughriders parading and posing; Mme Marie Curie; T.A. Edison; and Governor elect Woodrow Wilson.~Four cameramen stand in line checking their cameras. Street scenes in Chigaco in the gay 90s and in San Francisco as seen from the the front of a street car. Firemen come out of a station in their horse-drawn fire engines. Bathing beauties are seen posing and parading. Shots of before and after coiffures from the late 1890s and a woman modelling a decoletée evening gown. Shots of a man and woman dancing. A tightrope artisit puts on a demonstration, followed by a performance by a scantily clad woman with exhibition decor in the background. A final sequence on an early car, perhaps a 1905 Buick, being cranked and driving away.

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1. Given the 90 year rule, the copyright on this material has expired.

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Vault ISN:

27249

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8609-0105

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

173671

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7610-0014

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

173672

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7712-0220

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

7610-0014

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

173673

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7901-0032

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

7712-0220

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8609-0105

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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