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Hearst-Selig News Pictorial (No. 11)
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Martin H. Glynn [himself], Mary Glynn [herself], Norman E. Mack [himself]
The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. Film editor, Ray Hall. / Released 8 February 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Documentary: Newsreel.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Norgi Ski Club holds meet at Gary, Ill., and daring professionals sail through the air in long jumps. Some get bad spills. Tennis is played on the ice at Wilmette, Ill. Test new fire escape, man slides down rope from top of Munsey Building, Washington, to street, eleven stories below. Ex-Governor and Mrs. Glynn of New York, Norman E. Mack, chairman of New York committee at Panama Exposition, and Mrs. Mack sail via Panama Canal on Great Northern from Philadelphia for San Francisco. Hundreds of New York’s unemployed are given free food by hotel while guests contribute nickels and dimes that are distributed after the food. Barge in which President Wilson will lead warship fleet through Panama Canal at formal opening is given speed trial. New interior pictures from German cities show scenes in Frankfurt and Berlin where business is going ahead in spite of war. In German prison camps Russians are put to work to help harvest the beet crop. Scenes from camp for officer prisoners. Great military base at Salisbury Plain, England, is inundated after seven weeks’ downpour. At Salisbury Beach, Mass., windstorm hurls tons of sand against cottages and leaves them in fantastic shapes.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 5 January 2025.
References: Website-IMDb.
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