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Niagara Falls Ice Dam

Item number (ISN):

23243

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1937-03-06

Item number (ISN):

23243

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION

Accession:

1979-0190

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1937-03-06

Production company:

Fox Movietone News

Production credit:

photography, Roy Tash; sound, R.D. Harrison

Description:

Newsreel story about the ice jam clogging up the lower Niagara Gorge, piling ice to a height of more than 60 feet. This is the largest ice jam since 1908. Footage shows: the Horseshoe Falls, taken from above, showing increased volume of water flowing over the brink due to the ice jam on the American side; Niagara Falls on the American side, showing ice jam below; large crevasses are formed in the ice field by the pressure; Maid of the Mist boats in drydock, theatened by the jam; demolished pier and waiting rooms of the Maid of the Mist docks; ice piled at based of American Falls to a height of over 50 feet; the Canadian Niagara Power Plant threatened by the ice; ice piled in the lower gorge; two Canadian Niagara Power Plant employees discussing conditions; and employee being questioned.

Language:

English

Original number:

30-689

Notes:

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1. Actuality footage over 50 years - copyright expired.~2. Source of subject description is Associated Screen News caption sheet for 500 feet of Dupont SS Pan shot by Roy Tash.~3. This was shot with offstage and natural sound.~4. Caption sheet says that this footage was exclusive (no one else covered the story).

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

31010

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-3675

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

NITRATE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

35545

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8002-0089

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

N-3675

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

35546

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8002-0093

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8002-0097

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

35547

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8002-0097

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

8002-0089

Status:

PRT.ELEM
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, Fox, is required to reproduce this material.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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