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1904
Original Title :
Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.
Genre :
Movie / Documentary / Short
Year :
1904
Type :
Movie
Time :
2min
Rating :
4.3/10

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With a tree-lined river bank dominating the top and back of the frame, the Charles River flows toward a stationary camera. A flotilla of canoes passes by. Some have one occupant, some two, ... See full summary

Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass. (1904) Online

With a tree-lined river bank dominating the top and back of the frame, the Charles River flows toward a stationary camera. A flotilla of canoes passes by. Some have one occupant, some two, a few three or four. Some men wear ties, a few wear boaters. Only a handful of the canoes have more than one paddler. None go quickly. There are more than 40 canoes packed close together. Off camera, down left, they seem to make a circle and head back to enter the frame from the left.


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Yananoc

This is another film from the Edison Company that simply shows how bereft of ideas they were in 1904, even though Edison employee Edwin S. Porter had transformed the future of cinema little more than six months earlier.

The film is a one-shot actuality that could have been made seven years earlier. Filmed from a bridge above the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts, it shows about fifty canoes launching themselves from the river bank one afternoon in July 1904. Almost everybody is dressed in white shirt and tie, and a few men wear straw boaters. They smile at the camera and row their way off the screen and into anonymous history...