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The President's Special : [incomplete]

Item number (ISN):

249446

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1910

Item number (ISN):

249446

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

FILM SOCIETY OF CANADA

Accession:

1973-0205

Media:

Film

Production date:

1910

Release date:

1910-02-15

Production company:

Edison Manufacturing Company

Country of production:

us

Description:

A railway telegrapher falls asleep and fails to side-line a train in order to permit the passage of a special carrying the president of the company. The telegrapher's wife, realising there is something wrong, stops a passing motorist. After she has gone back into the house for her purse, she gets into the car and they give chase. The car races alongside the train and the engineer, seeing her frantic signals, stops the train in time to save the president's special. <5mn 46s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' print calculated at 16 fps. It does not include any added introductory texts or titles.~2. This film is one of eight on the same roll and marketed as Edison Company Films Collection No. 1.~3. Eighth of eight items on the reel.~4. US Copyright 15 Feb 1910 J138351-54.~5. The Edison company made a two-reel version of the same subject using the same title in 1914. It was directed by Charles J. Brabin.~6. Assuming Edison to be the creator of this film, this material is out of copyright as Edison died in 1931.

Genre:

DRAMA

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

14900

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8403-0100

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

216906

Format:

FILM

Location number:

CFI-5044/A

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

284010

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7807-0621

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

CFI 5044-A

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

953004

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

CFI-5044-A-DPX

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

11:00

Made from:

CFI-5044/A

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8403-0100

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with written permission of Film Society of Canada

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