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Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup
(1904) United States of America
B&W : [?] 192 or 200? feet
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and Kleine Optical Company. / Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer and A.E. Weed. / © 17 October 1904 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H51702]. Released October 1904. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format? / The production was shot on 8 October 1904 on Long Island, New York.
Documentary: Actuality.
Synopsis: [From Biograph promotional materials] By special arrangement with the committee of the Automobile Club of America, we were given preferred positions at three different points on the course during the automobile race for the Vanderbilt cup. A most exciting picture throughout, showing the most dramatic features of the event. As a picture it is much more interesting than any automobile race that has ever been made, as apparently no effort was made to keep the great crowds off the road, and as each car comes along the spectators press back on either side, forming a narrow lane through which the machines race at a speed of seventy miles an hour. In looking at these pictures it seems a miracle that more people were not injured. The photographic quality of the film is all that could be desired, and even when close to the camera the race is clear and sharp. The subject will be sold in any length desired.
Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Transportation: Automobiles - USA: New York: Long Island
Listing updated: 10 March 2010.
References: Niver-Early p. 18 : Website-AFI.
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