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Auto Boat Race on the Hudson
Also known as [Auto Boat Race on the Hudson River]
(1904) United States of America
B&W : 155 feet
Directed by [?] G.W. Bitzer?
Cast: (unknown)
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / © 18 June 1904 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H47332]. Released June 1904. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format? / The production was shot on 11 June 1904 at the Columbia Yacht Club on the Hudson River, New York, New York.
Documentary: Actuality.
Synopsis: [From Biograph promotional materials] The new-fangled high-speed launches which are now the fad of sporting millionaires make an admirable subject for the moving picture camera, and this film shows the best of them in a race for the American championship, the prize being a massive solid gold cup. Among the boats shown are W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr.’s “Hard Boiled Egg,” “The Standard,” which won the championship, and has never been beaten, the “Vingt et Un,” the “F. I. A. T.,” the “Shooting Star,” the “Japansky,” the “Kotic” and the “Nada.”
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [16mm duplicate reduction negative (FRA 0137), 16mm reference reduction positive (FLA 4965)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: USA: New York: Hudson River
Listing updated: 10 March 2010.
References: Niver-Early p. 17 : Website-AFI; Website-LoC.
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