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This is a topicality, a newsreel-film, you know, the sort of thing you might see on television every day of the week. It is not really intended to be wildly entertaining.
This has the virtue of being shot outside the US. People in the US (then as now) tended to live in their own little bubble. They knew next to nothing about the outside world. Unless they went to foreign films (Lumière and Pathé and British Pathé filmed all over the world), they rarely got to see anything outside the US because US film-companies and US cinematographers just simply did not travel.So US audiences were lucky if they occasionally got to see shots of Mexico or Canada.
This film was in all probability shot by one of the more enterprising cinematographers, William "Daddy" Paley, primarily famous for his coverage of the Cuban and Philippine wars Next, try and remember what a minuscule part of a cinema presentation you are watching when you just see one of these one-minute, two-minute, three-minute films. Such films, when it came to topicalities at least, were seldom shot in isolation. They normally form a series of films that were designed to be shown together; Paley shot several films of this royal visit and several others in Québec during 1901-1902, the most "entertaining" to watch probably being the winter scenes (the Montréal fire-brigade on runners, people skating). But the point is they were a series (although the film companies did sell them separately as well in most cases and could not be sure that the exhibitors would show them together) and they would be shown of course, not only with a musical accompaniment but also with a commentary (just like the stuff, dear fellow, that you watch on telly). So what you are watching here is just a fragment of a programme, designed, like any topical newsreel, to keep people informed about the world around them....
This has the virtue of being shot outside the US. People in the US (then as now) tended to live in their own little bubble. They knew next to nothing about the outside world. Unless they went to foreign films (Lumière and Pathé and British Pathé filmed all over the world), they rarely got to see anything outside the US because US film-companies and US cinematographers just simply did not travel.So US audiences were lucky if they occasionally got to see shots of Mexico or Canada.
This film was in all probability shot by one of the more enterprising cinematographers, William "Daddy" Paley, primarily famous for his coverage of the Cuban and Philippine wars Next, try and remember what a minuscule part of a cinema presentation you are watching when you just see one of these one-minute, two-minute, three-minute films. Such films, when it came to topicalities at least, were seldom shot in isolation. They normally form a series of films that were designed to be shown together; Paley shot several films of this royal visit and several others in Québec during 1901-1902, the most "entertaining" to watch probably being the winter scenes (the Montréal fire-brigade on runners, people skating). But the point is they were a series (although the film companies did sell them separately as well in most cases and could not be sure that the exhibitors would show them together) and they would be shown of course, not only with a musical accompaniment but also with a commentary (just like the stuff, dear fellow, that you watch on telly). So what you are watching here is just a fragment of a programme, designed, like any topical newsreel, to keep people informed about the world around them....
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- kekseksa
- Dec 1, 2015
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