{"id":265,"date":"2009-06-06T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T20:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2009-06-06T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T20:25:26","slug":"rocking-yukon-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Rocking Yukon Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xo0gS5kZQFg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xo0gS5kZQFg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The varmint Soapy Smith lived and died in the hellishly cold northland up by the Russian border and <a href=\"http:\/\/soapysmiths.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/likeable-links.html\">the Soapy blog blogs about<\/a> a part of the Library of Congress subsite on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/intldl\/mtfhtml\/mfsplash.html\">joint history of Alaska and Russia<\/a> which contains <q>a goldmine of information, artifacts, documents and photographs on the Klondike gold rush era history.<\/q><\/p>\n<p>I went prospecting in there and stumbled across a <a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/intldl\/mtfhtml\/mfdigcol\/lists\/mtfmbrTitles1.html\">a dusty reading room with cowboy-era footage from Alaska<\/a>.  I especially liked <a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/r?intldl\/mtfront:@OR(@field(NUMBER+@band(mtfmi+frntr2)))\">an Edison clip from 1901 entitled <q>Rocking Gold in the Klondike<\/q><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<P>CREATED\/PUBLISHED<\/P><\/p>\n<p>Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1901<\/p>\n<p><P>NOTES<\/P><\/p>\n<p>From a single-camera position, the film shows sluice boxes as they are operated by gold miners in the Klondike gold fields.<\/p>\n<p>Cameraman: Robert K. Bonine; Location: Yukon Terr., Canada<\/p>\n<p>Copyright H4088, May 6, 1901; 31 ft., FLA3065 (print) FRA0408 (neg.) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I though about posting the clip on Soupgreens.com, and then I thought of <a href=\"http:\/\/gonze.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/07\/klankbeeld-raaphorst-like-a-child\/\">Marco Raaphorst&#8217;s Klankbeelds<\/a>, where he does a soundtrack for a photograph, and I decided to do a little soundtrack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The varmint Soapy Smith lived and died in the hellishly cold northland up by the Russian border and the Soapy blog blogs about a part of the Library of Congress subsite on the joint history of Alaska and Russia which contains a goldmine of information, artifacts, documents and photographs on the Klondike gold rush era [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,34,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mymusic","category-steamboing","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}