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The Georgetown Loop (Colorado) (1903)

1903 · Silent film · 3 min · dir. Billy Bitzer

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Synopsis

Georgetown, 1901. A silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a camera that pans the scenery and, when the train goes around curves, looks ahead to see the engine and passenger cars: the passengers wave hundreds of white handkerchiefs out of the train's left-side windows for the benefit of the camera. The town comes into view; the tracks are above the town, so the camera looks down on dozens of modest rooftops as…

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Details

Director
Billy Bitzer
Cinematography
Billy Bitzer
Studio
American Mutoscope & Biograph
Released
1901-07-01
Running time
3 minutes

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