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Hudson Boat Race Video

Auto boat race on the Hudson / Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1904.

SUMMARY
The single camera position was from the point of view of the judge of the course. The films shows a boat race between small, motor-driven speed boats, which were approximately twenty feet long with the inboard engine decked over. Many boats of various designs and spectators can be seen as if the locale were a yacht club basin or yacht mooring. Participants in the race were W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.'s Hard Boiled Egg; The Standard, which won the championship and had never been beaten; the Vingt et Un; the F.I.A.T.; the Shooting Star; the Japansky, the Kotic the Nada.

NOTES
Copyright: Thomas A. Edison, Inc.; 18Jun04; H47332.

Cameraman, G. W. Bitzer.

Cameraman credit from Niver's, Early motion pictures, p. 15.

Duration: 2:34 at 16 fps.

Filmed June 11, 1904 at the Columbia Yacht Club in Hudson River, New York City.

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

Received: ca. 1991 from LC lab; ref print and dupe neg; preservation; Paper Print Collection.