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[Yukon, Part 5 : home movie]

Item number (ISN):

346954

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1939

Item number (ISN):

346954

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

LEWIS, H.

Accession:

1975-0252

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1939

Production company:

Harry Lewis (Photography)

Description:

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Film footage taken by Harry Lewis, employee of the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation (YCGC), a gold mining company. Film footage taken at Bear Creek, a community approximately 8 miles up the Klondike Valley from the mouth of Dawson, and home to the Lewis' beginning in 1937. Included are shots of a skating party sent out by YCGC to stake claims up Bonanza Creek in the winter of 1939; building a new dredge at the mouth of Bonanza to replace number 4 dredge; a crane used to move heavy equipment; caulking the deck; Claude Kidd; the stern gantry being lifted into place; shots taken from a bridge at Bear Creek of a bulldozer building up a wall to secure pond water and ensure sufficient water supply for Bear Creek camp in winter; a bulldozer flattening down a tailing pipe to fill up a dredge pond where they anticipate building a new gold room; the new gold room; inside the gold room and melting gold; dumping gold dust from a pan, a gold brick being turned out; Benny Gladwin who was in charge of the gold room; gold dust; panning for gold; and Benny Gladwin with Jack Scott and Gus who are helping to size the gold.

Language:

Silent

Notes:

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1. Reel five of nine reels.~2. Description based on transcripts provided by donor. Transcripts taken from interview with Mrs. Hilda Lewis, conducted by Arnold E. Roos for research on the S.S. Klondike II restoration project.~3. The film, with others, was used in the production of the National Film Board of Canada's short film, entitled IN THE DAYS OF THE RIVERBOATS, available for consultation at the National Library of Canada.

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Vault ISN:

385563

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 8010-0088

Number of items:

1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

385691

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8003-0085

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ORIG

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

385693

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8003-0151

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8003-0085

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

385708

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8003-0146

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8003-0085

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

open

Consultation copy number:

V1 8010-0088

Donor restrictions:

No donor restrictions.

Copyright status:

Copyright expired.

Reproduction access:

copyright expired : no donor restrictions

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Date modified:: 2024-07-24