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Article: Canal's history captured on film; The preservation [Derived headline]
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- The Intelligencer
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- August 22, 2008
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Canal's history captured on film
face=+Italic; The preservation effort in the 1930s stemmed from worry that a four-lane parkway would be built on the canal right-of-way.face=-Italic;
face=+Bold; By Gema Maria Duarteface=-Bold;
STAFF WRITER
About 80 years ago, when the Delaware Canal closed to navigation, preservation talks started.
And to demonstrate the importance of safekeeping the historic canal, W. W. Chambers produced two 20-minute, black and white silent films in the early 1930s.
Chambers made films as a hobby. He was a wealthy man who lived in a cottage around New Hope along the canal.
Those two vintage films were recently archived at the National Canal Museum in Easton. Before the ...