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Film, Video Cutting and canaling ice

Digital viewing copy

About this Item

Title

  • Cutting and canaling ice

Summary

  • The camera shows what appears to be a frozen-over lake on which men are driving teams of horses pulling a device similar to a plow. The second camera position shows that the horses are being driven in a straight line across the ice, with the device chiseling a groove, called canaling, into the ice. This action precedes removal of the ice for storage so it can be used during the summer.

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

  • -  H14436 U.S Copyright Office
  • -  Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 24Feb02; H14436.
  • -  Paper print shelf number (LC 1555) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
  • -  LC also holds two related Paper Print Collection films on this subject: Circular panorama of housing the ice, and Loading the ice on cars, conveying it across the mountains and loading it into boats.
  • -  Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
  • -  Source used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 72.
  • -  Probably filmed in Groton Ice Fields, Groton, Massachusetts 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 (42 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 90 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (42 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
  • dupe neg pic 1 film reel of 1 (ca. 90 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.
  • paper pos 1 roll of 1 (ca. 90 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.
  • paper pos (copy 2) 1 roll of 1 (ca. 90 ft.) : b&w ; 35 mm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • FLA 4569 (viewing print)
  • FEC 1965 (viewing print)
  • FRA 1603 (dupe neg pic)
  • FPF 1155 (dupe neg pic)
  • Box 0671A (paper pos)
  • Box 5541B (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

  • 00564559

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Thomas A. Edison, Inc, and Paper Print Collection. Cutting and Canaling Ice. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc, 1902. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/00564559/>.