Home Movie: 098387 (silent)

Description: Description: Rare look at an active sylvanite mining community in Ontario, Canada in the late 1920s, with men on the job and at large in the town, with many sequences filmed around the town's train station. Other sequences include landscape studies, documentation of new buildings, and a handout of cards from a truck bed that could be job assignments or payroll materials. Several sequences show workers interacting with their dogs. can notes: "Train at Kirkland Lake, Canada, Sylvanite Mine." Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1920s, Transportation, Extractive industries, Labor, Human-animal relationships Tags: industrial landscapes; filmed from rear of train; Cobalt train station; train station scenes; Haileybury train station; small towns; lakes; ponds; lakeshore village; Kirkland Lake train station sign; 1920s children; 1920s women's clothing; men boarding train; train leaving station; trains; railroads; 1920s men's fashion; three-piece suits; Northern Ontario Railroad; man playing with dog; industrial yard; dogs; lumber; mines; workers lowering into mine shaft; log cabins; people on train platforms; men posing for camera; man poses with dog; smiling; pocket watches; straw hats; waving at camera from train; blowing kisses to camera; mine carts; dumping rocks; miners with lamps; man holding pickaxe for camera; Film Sponsor: Creator: Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0331, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: circa 1927 Release Date: Geographical Location: Canada; Ontario; Cobalt, Ontario; Kirkland Lake, Ontario Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: 16mm film Element: positive, reversal Color: b&w Color Process: Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: square triangle Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 203

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syd1mvILLUk

Metadata Source:YouTube