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Issue 68, Volume 5

Item number (ISN):

24971

Series title:

Universal Animated Weekly

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1917

Item number (ISN):

24971

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADA. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY / MUSÉE NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE

Accession:

1978-0226

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1917

Production company:

Universal Film Manufacturing Company

Country of production:

us

Distributor name:

Universal Film Manufacturing Company

Description:

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Captioned news items on the following:~47th New York Infantry leaves for duty "somewhere in New York". Footage of soldiers leaving barracks in military gear, carrying rifles, sandbags, and stretchers.~Joan of Arc stirs Mid-west. Footage of society girl dressed in a costume of a cape and plumed helmet, rides a white horse down city streets of Chicago. Flanking her are two soldiers on brown horses.~Recruits swamp officers. Heavy response for war recruits require tents to shelter embryo soldiers. Rows of tents housing new recruits are shown, with smiling soldiers waving to camera. Recruits also shown doing chores in a compact area of tents.~Dixie shares the Burden. Footage of soldiers parading down a street in Savannah, Georgia.~Filipinos doing their "bit". Filipino sailors shown boarding train en route to League Island Navy Yard.~Repelling the enemy. Recruits in Chicago successfully defend their station from attacking marines in mock battle. Footage shows Coast Guard on horseback patrolling the shore line. Four boatloads of marines disembark from cutters to storm the beach. Land forces prepare for defence, as soldiers stationed in a foxhole at the top of a cliff overlooking beach open fire. Marines are held back by the gunfire at the bottom of the cliff, only to find themselves victims of a crossfire due to defending soldiers on the left shooting at them with a Gatlin gun. Marines hold their ground, bodies are strewn on the beach.~America's Battlefield. Footage of New York Yankees season opener with Boston Red Sox in New York City. Intertitles stress military metaphors with baseball, as Yankees are shown marching in military formation with bats substituted for rifles. General Leonard Wood reviews the players and tosses out first ball. Brief highlights of the game are shown.~Knocked Silly. Students in Occidental, California celebrate football victory by inhaling laughing gas. A student is shown inhaling the laughing gas and dancing around in a stoned fashion, much to the delight and encouragement of the crowd.~British Warship in U.S. Port. Pan shots of cruiser "Leviathan", first Allied fighting craft to visit America since the war began.~Teuton sailors are interned. Shots of German and Austrian crews of merchantmen seized by the U.S. are shown lugging their baggage in a prison yard on Deer Island.~Yale oarsmen lead Pennsylvania. Yale rowing crew are shown in the lead against their Quaker rivals in the season's first boat races.~Greatest Air Battle in History. Intertitle explains that "hundreds of airplanes engage in deadly combat among clouds on Western Front in European war." Footage of a dirigible is intercut with footage of two fighter planes. Editing gives impression of a dogfight, though none is actually shown. Fighter planes shown in formation, intertitles suggest that an attack is underway. The dirigible is destroyed in the air, leaving black smoke and debris.~Zeppelin destroyed by the French. From French Official War Pictures, March 17, 1917. Footage shows wreckage of downed zeppelin 30 miles outside of Paris. Debris is being inspected by French officials.~Cartoons by H.Y. Mayer, world famous caricaturist. A cariacture of the Kaiser, titled "The Globetrotter", is drawn on a white board. The Kaiser is depicted in the pose of the Colossus of Rhodes, with one foot on the U.S. the other foot in Europe. <9mn 16s>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Issue No. 68.~2. The majority of these items are actuality news items, however, the cartoons by Mayer consistute dramatic character. Therefore, given the 90-year rule, this material is under copyright until 31 December 2007.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

34963

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-4143

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Max. shrinkage:

2.1%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

37653

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8308-0579

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-4143

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

37654

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8308-0580

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8308-0579

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

37655

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8308-0581

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8308-0579

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

40968

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8307-0028

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

716024

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

24971-001

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

9:16

Made from:

8308-0581

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

716025

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

24971.MOV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

9:16

Made from:

8308-0581

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8307-0028

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 31 December 2007.

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Donor / Avec la permission écrite du donateur

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