Cutting and canaling ice /
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
moving image
Actualities (Motion pictures) lcgft
Silent films. lcgft
Short films. lcgft
Nonfiction films. lcgft
United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc.,
1902.
eng
The camera shows what appears to be a frozen-over lake on which men are driving teams of horses pulling a device similar to a plow. The second camera position shows that the horses are being driven in a straight line across the ice, with the device chiseling a groove, called canaling, into the ice. This action precedes removal of the ice for storage so it can be used during the summer.
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 24Feb02; H14436.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1555) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
LC also holds two related Paper Print Collection films on this subject: Circular panorama of housing the ice, and Loading the ice on cars, conveying it across the mountains and loading it into boats.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Source used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 72.
Probably filmed in Groton Ice Fields, Groton, Massachusetts in 1902.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Ice industry--Massachusetts--Groton.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Cutting and canaling ice
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/ntscrm.00060791