Completion of Northwestern Pacific Railroad (Outtakes and Elements) (silent)
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Description: A collection of California and railroad-centric film footage. This roll consists of materials made by Bert Gould when he copied the original nitrate film to 16mm safety stock, intercut with more recent color footage of redwood forests.
This film contains outtakes from a film described by Bert Gould as follows: "Golden Spike ceremony and celebration for the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Rail Road, October 23-25, 1914. Film begins a short way north of its starting point in Willits (Northern California) and continues over trestles and through tunnels until it reaches the point of celebration at Cain Rock. (The celebration includes San Francisco Mayor James Rolph and the Eureka Mayor and other officials. The next day festivities in Arcata,C alifornia and Eureka, California are reported.")
Can notes: "NWPRR Film Sections Outs/Ekta" [Northwestern Pacific Railroad)
Leader notes (from head to tail):
Roll 1: "Orig Camera Good Takes (pulled for film)" (square triangle triangle)
Roll 2: "NWPRR unused"
Roll 3: "RDW Footage" (square plus)
Roll 4: "Dark Print - RDWD EMP Special" / "Eureka" (square triangle triangle)
Roll 5: 2A"(square plus)
Roll 6: "2" (square plus)
Roll 7: [none]
Roll 8: "1" (square plus)
Roll 9: "NG - Rdwd Emp Spec" (square triangle triangle)
Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit http://www.prelinger.com.
Subjects: Transportation; Nature; Extractive industries
Tags: maps; railroads; trains; bridges; redwoods; ferns; engineers; Redwood Empire Special; map of Northern California; felt flags; crowd on a train platform looking at camera; panning shots in redwood forest; redwood forests; "Sunny Jim" Rolph; James Rolph; intertitles; logging industry; trees
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Contributor: Prelinger Archives
Source Collection: Bert Gould Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date: circa 1914; circa 1970s
Release Date:
Geographical Location: USA; California; Eureka, California; Northern California
Genre/Form: outtakes and trims
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Rights:
Film Format: 16mm film
Element: reversal, reduction print
Color: b&w, color
Color Process: Kodak PXR, Ektachrome EFB
Sound or Silent: silent
Film Soundtrack Type: mos
Edge Code: square triangle triangle, square plus
Frame Rate: 24 fps
Length (feet): 688
Complete Record:
Description: A collection of California and railroad-centric film footage. This roll consists of materials made by Bert Gould when he copied the original nitrate film to 16mm safety stock, intercut with more recent color footage of redwood forests.
This film contains outtakes from a film described by Bert Gould as follows: "Golden Spike ceremony and celebration for the completion of the Northwestern Pacific Rail Road, October 23-25, 1914. Film begins a short way north of its starting point in Willits (Northern California) and continues over trestles and through tunnels until it reaches the point of celebration at Cain Rock. (The celebration includes San Francisco Mayor James Rolph and the Eureka Mayor and other officials. The next day festivities in Arcata,C alifornia and Eureka, California are reported.")
Can notes: "NWPRR Film Sections Outs/Ekta" [Northwestern Pacific Railroad)
Leader notes (from head to tail):
Roll 1: "Orig Camera Good Takes (pulled for film)" (square triangle triangle)
Roll 2: "NWPRR unused"
Roll 3: "RDW Footage" (square plus)
Roll 4: "Dark Print - RDWD EMP Special" / "Eureka" (square triangle triangle)
Roll 5: 2A"(square plus)
Roll 6: "2" (square plus)
Roll 7: [none]
Roll 8: "1" (square plus)
Roll 9: "NG - Rdwd Emp Spec" (square triangle triangle)
Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit http://www.prelinger.com.
Subjects: Transportation; Nature; Extractive industries
Tags: maps; railroads; trains; bridges; redwoods; ferns; engineers; Redwood Empire Special; map of Northern California; felt flags; crowd on a train platform looking at camera; panning shots in redwood forest; redwood forests; "Sunny Jim" Rolph; James Rolph; intertitles; logging industry; trees
Film Sponsor:
Creator:
Credits:
Distributor:
Contributor: Prelinger Archives
Source Collection: Bert Gould Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date: circa 1914; circa 1970s
Release Date:
Geographical Location: USA; California; Eureka, California; Northern California
Genre/Form: outtakes and trims
Language:
Rights:
Film Format: 16mm film
Element: reversal, reduction print
Color: b&w, color
Color Process: Kodak PXR, Ektachrome EFB
Sound or Silent: silent
Film Soundtrack Type: mos
Edge Code: square triangle triangle, square plus
Frame Rate: 24 fps
Length (feet): 688
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