Original upload date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:45:48 GMT
This film is a heritage item from Library and Archives Canada and is only available in English.
A newsreel consisting of a variety of stories.
1. “On a Flying Fish at 71 Miles an Hour”: View of Alex
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ander Graham Bell’s hydrofoil, described in the intertitles as “the fastest water craft in the world”; Bell is at the wheel of the hydrofoil, with a young boy seated beside him; several shots from the front and rear of the hydrofoil as co-inventor F.W. Baldwin pilots it along the shoreline in Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; several shots of the hydrofoil as it speeds away from and toward the camera.
2. “Snapping the Whip!”: Tobogganing at Big Bear Lake, California.
3. “Daffy News”: A humorous take on news headlines.
4. “France Acclaims the Triumph of Carpentier”: The new heavyweight champion arrives in Boulogne, France, then goes to Paris.
5. “Floods Imperil Lives in Philippine Villages”: Villagers are affected by flooding in the Philippines.
6. “America Bids Farewell to ‘Red’ Agitators”: Over 300 “undesirables” in the United States board the “Soviet Ark” at Ellis Island to be deported to Europe.
7. “A Real ‘Movie’ Fire”: Inadequate firefighting methods result in the destruction of Solax Film Laboratories in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
