Film, Video Loading the ice on cars, conveying it across the mountains, and loading it into boats
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Title
- Loading the ice on cars, conveying it across the mountains, and loading it into boats
Summary
- The film covers four operations involved in shipping ice: sawing the ice from frozen-over lakes, transferring it by means of speciality constructed freight cars to a dock some distance away, unloading it, and then transloading it onto a waiting ship.
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
- - H14435 U.S Copyright Office
- - Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 24Feb02; H14435.
- - Paper print shelf number (LC 1692) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
- - LC also holds two related Paper Print Collection films on this subject: Cutting the ice, and Circular panorama of housing the ice.
- - Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
- - Source used: Niver, K., Early motion pictures, p. 187.
- - Filmed 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 (77 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 190 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (77 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 190 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
- paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 190 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
- paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 190 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- FLA 4706 (viewing print)
- FEC 1968 (viewing print)
- FRA 1723 (dupe neg pic)
- FPF 1159 (dupe neg pic)
- Box 0084C (paper pos)
- Box 5169B (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
- 00564563
Online Format
- image
- video