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Alaska

Item number (ISN):

20270

Series title:

Kinogram Travelogue

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1922/1930 ?

Item number (ISN):

20270

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE, THE

Accession:

1972-0102

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1922/1930 ?

Production company:

Associated Screen News Ltd.

Production credit:

editing/titles, Terry Ramsaye; photography, John M. Alexander; producer, B.E. Norrish

Description:

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Film about a cruise from Vancouver to Alaska.~Footage includes: cruise ship underway; member of ship's crew raising flag on deck while woman looks on; mountains along shore; hillsides covered with trees; birds in flight; passangers walking along deck; women jumping rope on deck; playing shuffleboard; arriving in Alert Bay, the ship's first port of call; shoreline; totem poles and lodges; totem poles and tombstones; large thunderbird carving; Prince Rupert, British Columbia shoreline with dwellings, church and docks; Ketchikan, Alaska waterfront; passengers on deck watching ship's progress through Taku Inlet on the way to Taku Glacier; fisherman with net; the glacier, which flows 90 miles into the sea and is 300 feet thick; the Alaska-Juneau mine where stamp mills crush the gold from quartz ore; travelling up the Lynn Canal to Skagway; arriving at Skagway dock where a train waits; the White Norse express train (so-named in the intertitles) down main street; people walking past a house and garden in Skagway; flowers; woman waving a huge rhubarb stalk; grave of Jefferson "Soapy" Smith; monument to Frank H. Reid; White Pass train travelling through mountains with tourists aboard; old trails from the gold rush of 1898; Lake Atlin; prospectors sluicing for gold; prospector panning for gold; old prospector; and hydraulic "guns" washing down banks of gravel to search for gold in remote valleys. <12mn 45s>

Language:

Silent

Original number:

J-508

Notes:

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1. No title on screen.~2. No on-screen credits.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

26758

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8411-0817

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

0.9%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

309176

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9803-0023

Number of items:

1

Duration:

120:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

315618

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9811-0041

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

8411-0817

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

316167

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9811-0075

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

9811-0041

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

321472

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9902-0009

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

9811-0041

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

996808

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9803-0094

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8330-0148/200
8411-0817
7606-0130
7709-1124
7708-0680
8405-0498
8009-0296
8102-0364

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9803-0023

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, the American Film Insitute, is required to reproduce this title.

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: National Archives of Canada.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of donor~The contact persons at the AFI as of December 1996 are Susan Dalton and Zorin Sinobad, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. 20566. Telephone (202) 252-3120; FAX (202) 252-3126.

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