Auto boat race on the Hudson / - movie film screenshot

"The new-fangled high-speed launches which are now the fad of sporting millionaires make an admirable subject for the moving picture camera, and this film shows the best of them in a race for the American championship, the prize being a massive solid gold cup. Among the boats shown are W.K. Vanderbilt, Jr.'s "Hard Boiled Egg," "The Standard," which won the championship, and has never been beaten, the "Vingt et Un," the "F. I. A. T.," the "Shooting Star," the "Japansky," the "Kotic" and the "Nada"--Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908.
H47332 U.S Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 18Jun04; H47332.
Cameraman, G.W. Bitzer.
Duration: 2:34 at 16 fps.
Filmed June 11, 1904. Location: Columbia Yacht Club, New York City, and the Hudson River.
According to The Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum WWW site, the first Gold Cup race took place in June, 1904 on the Hudson River in New York. The winning boat, was the "Standard", owned and driven by Carl Riotte.
Biograph production no. 2931.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1951) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 17; AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 55; Biograph production logs; Biograph bulletins, 1896-1908, p. 128, p. 225; The motor boat: devoted to all types of power craft, vol. 1, p. 3-6, viewed online via Google books, February 25, 2017; "The APBA Gold Cup-Since 1904" on The Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum WWW site, viewed February 25, 2017; "1904 Columbia Yacht Club Regatta" on the Hydroplane History WWW site, viewed February 27, 2017.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.