U.S. Battleship Oregon (1898)
This film lasts around forty-seconds and it basically shows you what the title says. The North River in New York City as the U.S. Battleship Oregon moving down it and a camera is there to capture it.
As I've often said, you don't watch these old movies for a plot or anything like that. Instead they just offer you a chance to see a moment in time and on that level alone this here is worth watching. It seems that the cameraman was also trying to do an artistic move by showing the ship go by and then following the American flag on the back of it before pulling the camera to the sky. More times than not the camera would just stay still yet here was someone behind the camera doing something a bit different.
This film lasts around forty-seconds and it basically shows you what the title says. The North River in New York City as the U.S. Battleship Oregon moving down it and a camera is there to capture it.
As I've often said, you don't watch these old movies for a plot or anything like that. Instead they just offer you a chance to see a moment in time and on that level alone this here is worth watching. It seems that the cameraman was also trying to do an artistic move by showing the ship go by and then following the American flag on the back of it before pulling the camera to the sky. More times than not the camera would just stay still yet here was someone behind the camera doing something a bit different.
