1898 Thomas Edison, Loading Ice on Cars

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1898

SUMMARY
The film covers four operations involved in shipping ice: sawing the ice from frozen-over lakes, transferring it by means of speciality constructed freight cars to a dock some distance away, unloading it, and then transloading it onto a waiting ship. This is one of three films.

NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 24Feb02; H14435.

Title cross referenced with two films: Circular panorama of housing the ice and Cutting and canaling ice.

Filmed in Groton, Mass.

Source used: Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, 1985.

Received: 2/2000 from LC lab; ref print and dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 1898
• thomas
• edison
• loading ice on cars
• film history