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Arrival of the Governor General, Lord Minto, at Quebec /

Arrival of the Governor General, Lord Minto, at Quebec /

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"Quebec Winter Carnival series: This picture shows the Governor General, the Earl of Minto, accompanied by the Countess of Minto and their household, crossing the river in ice canoes. On the Quebec side the canoes find a solid ledge of ice projecting about 200 yards from the wharf, and over this the blanket clad snow shoers haul the Governor, his wife and guests. A very excellent picture of the Governor General of Canada clad in his winter travelling costume. 100 ft."--Edison films catalog.
"The ice-bridge jam gave way last night, and the river was passable only in canoes; the banks were piled with rough ice and fields of icebergs were floating down the river...It was a most thrilling experience. We got into our canoe on dry land and were pushed and towed partly over the floes of ice and partly in the open river. We had eight men to each canoe, who paddled in the open water and were wonderfully quick in jumping out and pushing the canoe over the ice, singing French-Canadian songs as they paddled"--Lord Minto, a memoir.
H14291 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 17Feb1902; H14291.
Camera, William S. Paley.
Duration: 1:58 at 14 fps.
According to the description of the film on the Framepool website, the boats towing Lord Minto and his family are Canadian pointer boats.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1463) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Photographed during the Quebec, Canada Winter Carnival, probably during January or February of 1902.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 13; Edison films catalog, no. 135, Sept. 1902, p. 10 [MI]; Buchan, J. Lord Minto, a memoir, 1924, Chapter 8, viewed online March 9, 2015 via Project Gutenberg of Australia; Framepool WWW site, viewed March 9, 2015.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPB 5457 to FZA 2471.

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01/01/1901
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Paley, William Daly, 1857-1924, camera.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
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