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Down the old Potomac /  - movie film screenshot

Down the old Potomac / - movie film screenshot

description

Summary

Follows a week-long, 180-mile trip on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal through the Potomac Valley from Cumberland, Md., to Washington, D.C. Includes scenes of the locks in operation; a mile-long, hand-dug tunnel which was built in 1840; coal barges plying the canal; Maryland farming country; Harper's Ferry; and Great Falls.
Copyright: no reg.
Duration: 3:54 (part 1), 4:00 (part 2), and 3:36 (part 3) at 16 fps.
According to the Kleine catalog, this film was originally intended for inclusion in the Conquest program, but was never released in that series.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1912-1939; George Kleine Collection catalog, 1980, p. 31.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.

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Date

01/01/1917
person

Contributors

Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
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Source

Library of Congress
copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain

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