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Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920

Automobile race for the Vanderbilt Cup / American Mutoscope & Biograph Company.

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CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, 1904.

SUMMARY
This automobile race was filmed from many camera positions. Several different types of motor cars from all parts of the world are seen. A series of interconnecting roads was used as the race course.

NOTES
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 17Oct04; H51702.

Cameramen, G. W. Bitzer, A. E. Weed.

Cameramen credit from Niver's, Early motion pictures, p. 18.

Filmed October 8, 1904 in Long Island, N.Y.

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

Received: 2/2000 from LC lab; ref print and dupe neg; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.

SUBJECTS
Automobile racing.
Actuality--Shorts.

RELATED NAMES
Bitzer, G. W., 1872-1944, camera.
Weed, A. E., camera.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)

MEDIUM
1 reel of 1 (80 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. ref print.
1 reel of 1 (80 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm. dupe neg.

CALL NUMBER
FLA 4966 (ref print)
FRA 0141 (dupe neg)

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID
awal 1952 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/awal.1952

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