Home Movie: 098387 (silent)

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.

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"Train at Kirkland Lake, Canada, Sylvanite Mine."

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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;

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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

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Geographical Location: Canada; Ontario; Cobalt, Ontario; Kirkland Lake, Ontario

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive, reversal

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: square triangle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 203