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Film, Video Circular panorama of housing the ice

Digital viewing copy

About this Item

Title

  • Circular panorama of housing the ice

Summary

  • The camera photographed an area of industrial activity. Against a hill approximately one hundred feet in height, ten escalatorlike conveyors have been constructed. The film indicates that the system was designed to lift ice that had been cut from a lake to the top of a hill where it was either stored or shipped. The camera pans from the mechanized area to the right 150 degrees to show the total operation.

Names

  • Thomas A. Edison, Inc
  • Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1902.

Headings

  • -  Ice industry--Massachusetts--Groton

Genre

  • Actualities (Motion pictures)
  • Silent films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  H14440 U.S Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 24Feb02; H14440.
  • -  Paper print shelf number (LC 0338) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
  • -  Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
  • -  LC also holds two related Paper Print Collection films on this subject: Cutting the ice, and Loading the ice on cars, conveying it across the mountains and loading it into boats.
  • -  Source used: Niver, K., Early motion pictures, p. 57.
  • -  Filmed in ice fields in Groton, Massachusetts, probably in 1902.
  • -  Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.

Medium

  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (29 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (29 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
  • paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 50 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FLA 3352 (viewing print)
  • FEC 3269 (viewing print)
  • FRA 0659 (dupe neg pic)
  • FPF 0901 (dupe neg pic)
  • Box 0858C (paper pos)
  • Box 5666D (paper pos, copy 2)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 00564558

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Thomas A. Edison, Inc, and Paper Print Collection. Circular Panorama of Housing the Ice. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc, 1902. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/00564558/.

APA citation style:

Thomas A. Edison, I. & Paper Print Collection. (1902) Circular Panorama of Housing the Ice. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/00564558/.

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Thomas A. Edison, Inc, and Paper Print Collection. Circular Panorama of Housing the Ice. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc, 1902. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/00564558/>.