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Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920


Cutting and canaling ice / Thomas A. Edison, Inc.

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CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1902.

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.

NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 24Feb02; H14436.

Title crossed referenced with films: Circular panorama of housing the ice ; Loading the ice on cars, conveying it across the mountains and loading it into boats.

Filmed in Groton Ice Fields, Mass.[?]

Source used: Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, 1985.

Received: 2/2000 from LC lab; ref print and dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.

SUBJECTS
Ice industry.
Actuality--Shorts.

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

MEDIUM
1 reel of 1 (42 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. ref print.
1 reel of 1 (42 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg.

CALL NUMBER
FLA 4569 (ref print)
FRA 1603 (dupe neg)

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

DIGITAL ID
awal 1555 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.1555

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