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One of the parades of floating craft held in the waterways of the St. Louis Exposition is shown in this film. The cameraman placed equipment on shore at a distance to include each of the competing craft. Photographed were twelve small craft, some motot-powered and some rowed, but all decorated with foliage and bunting and containing foreign representatives and dignitaries.
H48986 U.S Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Company; 09Aug04; H48986.
Cameraman, A. E. Weed.
Thomas A. Edison was incorrectly credited as producer when this film was originally transferred from paper to 16 mm. film.
Duration: 2:13 at 16 fps.
Biograph production no. 2956.
Paper print shelf number (LC 2141) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
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Filmed August 4, 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Niver, K., Early motion pictures, p. 244; Biograph photo catalog, vol. 6, no. 2583-3002, viewed online at Rutgers University Community Repository WWW site, October 31, 2014; Internet movie database WWW site, viewed October 31, 2014.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, commonly known as the Saint Louis World's Fair of 1904, was the last great international exposition before World War I. The fair, built on a 1,200 acre site, included hundreds of thousands of objects, people, animals, displays, and publications from 62 exhibiting countries and 43 of the 45 states. The setting of world records, such as the largest organ, and working displays of every important technological advance were significant design goals. The Fair was a combination of trade show, civic showpiece, and monument to culture, along with more than a tinge of American pride. The Fair showcased the grandiose ambition of the gilded age, forming a kind of collective tribute to the nineteenth century's international understanding of the furtherance of peace, prosperity, and progress. It's a grand snapshot in time of American and foreign societies as they wished to portray themselves.
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