RARE Films on the "Long Ships Passing" on the Great Lakes!! Plus, The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald and the S.S. Arthur M. Anderson"

The 1st film absolutely amazed us! A camera crew filmed aboard the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald and the S.S. Arthur M. Anderson going through a Canal Lock. What is Amazing about this 1st film, is that latter in life, both were steaming together on the night of Nov. 10th 1975, when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down with all hands. Although 2 minutes prior to her loss, she told the SS Arthur Anderson that she was holding her own. Next, she was gone. This 1st film obviously was created before this disaster and shows the life and times of working aboard the great ships of the Great Lakes. What a great piece of History. The other films are bout the Great Lakes, there canals, and manufacturing around the great Lakes. We hope you enjoy this collection, we certainly did.

1st Film; "Long Ships Passing". This film was created by the Lake Carriers Association about the Great Long Ships Passing on the waters of the Great Lakes. As stated above, This film has footage of both the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald and the S.S. Arthur M. Anderson before the Fitzgerald sunk.. Eventually she was found in 530 ft of water on Lake Superior, The cause of demise is still debated today. Rough Wave?? Or hull flooding?? Anyway, the film show crewmen of someone ship along with many activities on the shipping of the Great Lakes. Runtime 28:41 Min's Please note the crewmen in the pictures below; Does anyone know if they are the actual crew that went down with the ship?????

2nd Film; "Links to the Ocean Shipping". This film was probably in the late 1950's and tells the story about getting the Long Ships and cargo ships up and down the lock and the need to create larger Locks. Runtime 10:57 Min's

3rd Film; "Jobs on the Great Lakes". This is an Army/Navy film about the Military needs on the Great Lakes. Lots of misc. jobs and functions to get the war supplies out. Runtime 15:40 Min's

4th Film; "Erie Canal Story". The is a great story of how one man had a vision in the early 1800's to create a canal to the Great Lakes. He saw the Empire could be build if the could build such a thing. Believe it or not, it took over 12 years and sure enough, Empires were build and made New York one of the great cities in the world. Runtime 6:21 Min's

5th Film; "Great Lakes Newsreels". A collection of the activities around the Great Lakes during Wartime. Amazing to us. 1st, Steel Factories. 2nd, Huge Freighters ship iron ore. 3rd, Canada's Logging industry. 4th, Plywood! RAF Mosquito's! 5th, AAF Waco Gliders produced. 6th, Ice and Snow around the Great Lakes. 7th, USS Icebreaker Mackinaw Breaks ice for the Long Ships. Runtime 13:53 Min's