Brook trout fishing / motion picture

The camera shows a small waterfall and a stream. Across the stream on the bank is a man with a fishing pole in one hand and a retrieving net in the other. During the course of the film, he makes the normal movements of a man accustomed to trout fishing. High on the bank to the right is a spectator. At the end of the film, the fisherman catches, nets, and lands a fish.
H16650 U.S Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 16Apr02; H16650.
Cameraman, F.S. Armitage.
Duration: 0:56 at 16 fps.
Filmed June 6, 1900, Lake Muskoka [District] in Ontario, Canada.
According to the Biograph production log, the subjects of this film are fishing, and the Grand Trunk Railway. Although no railroad is visible, the Muskoka Lake District in Canada is a summer resort area which was served by the Grand Trunk Railway.
Biograph production no. 1493.
Paper print shelf number (LC 1252) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Sources used: Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, p. 38; Biograph production logs, v. 1: 1899-1903; Biograph bulletins 1896-1908, p. 65; Biograph photo catalog, v. 3 (production no. 998-1502), viewed online via the New Jersey Digital Highway, January 11, 2016; AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 124.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.