Canadian newsreel with four stories as follows: Report about the discovery of dinosaur fossils in the badlands of the Red Deer River valley in Alberta. This item begins with the title card: “UNEARTHING THE PREHISTORIC ANIMALS OF THE PRAIRIES”. This title card includes a small graphic of a dinosaur. Next is another title card: “The Dinosaur – The Stegosaurus”. This is followed by the intertitle; “Steveville, Alta. – Mr. Sternberg, of necessity, he is an expert mountain-climber”. There is a shot of Mr. Sternberg holding a pick-axe. Intertitle; “Sand dunes, geometrically formed by the action of the wind during millions of years”. Shot of six individuals traversing the sand dunes. Intertitle: “Petrified wood, a few million years old”. Close-up shot of a large piece of petrified wood. Intertitle: “Interested spectators of the operations”. A group of six individuals, with a young boy, pose for the camera around one of the excavation sites. Intertitle: “H. Weston Taylor, famous artist, fortifies his memory”. Shot of Taylor sketching something onto a pad of paper. Intertitle: “J. Vernon McKenzie, editor of McLean’s, who officially interviewed the monsters”. McKenzie poses for the camera, holding a stick and what appears to be a piece of petrified wood. Intertitle: “Prehistoric residents of the district possessed prodigious appetites, a precedent appreciated by the scientists’ guests.” Group shot of the ‘scientists’ posing in front of a tent holding cups and eating. This is followed by another item about dinosaurs, beginning with the title-card: “STEVEVILLE, ALTA. – SCIENTISTS UNEARTH PREHISTORIC MONSTERS.” Intertitle: The ‘Bad Lands’ of the Red Deer River Valley, in the heart of the Alberta prairies, twelve million years ago a tropical swamp”. Long shot of three individuals posing along the edge of a ravine. Intertitle: “Since 1911 exploring scientists have made wonderful discoveries of the fossilized remains of monsters of the Mesozoic Age, from three to six million years ago”. Shot of the six individuals and the young boy hiking down onto the floor of the ravine. Intertitle: “The University of Alberta scientific party in the valley has unearthed some remarkable specimens”. Brief shot of the party of scientists gathered around a dig. Intertitle: “‘This fellow was only about 75 feet long’ says George F. Sternberg, Vertebraic Paleontologist of the University, digging up the jaw-bone of a Duckbill Dinosaurus”. Shots of Sternberg digging and brushing away dirt from the jaw-bone. Intertitle: “This Dinosaurus had 2,000 teeth. What an opportunity for a healthy toothache”. Shot of hands clearing and brushing away dirt from the jaw-bone. Intertitle: “The only complete skull of the Stegosaurus known, discovered here by this party”. Close-up shot of the skull being handled and turned over, partially covered in plaster. Intertitle: “The Stegosaurus, as now accepted – tiny for its period, but still equal to a horse”. The third item is about hikers on Mount Assiniboine in Alberta. The item title and intertitles spell it Assineboine. Title-card: “CANADIAN ROCKIES, ALTA. – CLIMBING MOUNT ASSINEBOINE WITH THE ALPINE CLUB OF CANADA”. Longshot of several teepees spread out in a forest clearing with mountains in the background. Shot of three female hikers, and a male guide, cooking outside their tent. Intertitle: “Climbing a rock face”. Shot of the party hiking up a steep incline. Shot of a female hiker with a camera, taking a picture. Intertitle: “Mount Assineboine, altitude 11,870 feet, the second highest peak in Canada”. Two hikers look out onto a valley with Mount Assiniboine rising in the background. Intertitle: “Feet – heavily armed, but otherwise useless in mountain climbing”. Two hikers sit with the spiked soles of their hiking boots facing the camera. Intertitle: “The care of the feet is the first consideration in climbing. These young ladies have learned the value of bathing them”. Shot of two female hikers washing their feet on the side of a stream. Intertitle: “Miss Margaret Gold, of Edmont on, the first Canadian girl to climb Mount Assineboine.” Shot of Miss Gold and male hiker who stand along a river’s edge. The final story is about the species of salamander called Necturus maculosis. It begins with the title-card: “TORONTO, ONT. INTRODUCING MR. NECTURUS MACULOSUS”. The title-card includes a graphic which depicts a fisherman in a canoe, with a reptile-looking fish on the end of his fishing line. Intertitle: “While dangling his hook in the Humber River, a surprised angler caught a rare lizard-fish called ‘Necturus Maculosus’, or more commonly a ‘Mud Puppy’”. Several shots of the mud puppy swimming around in a small bowl. Intertitle: “This Amphibian cousin of the Frog has been made an inmate of the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology, where it will spend its present and future lives”. The film ends with a shot of the specimen of Necturus maculosus swimming in the bowl of water. All intertitles in this newsreel include the Canadian National Pictorial logo. <8mn>
