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East or West of Suez
Here's an early Billy Bitzer film, shot from a train as it travels on a train through Frazer Canyon in British Columbia. It's not much to the modern viewer, although vastly superior to the work done for Edison by James White at the same time. White would typically aim the camera at the tracks, presumably so the viewer would not be distracted by the scenery and the lone man ambling to the left of the tracks about the one-minute mark. Bitzer aimed his camera high enough to allow his audience to see that scenery, and included a short interlude in a tunnel when the screen goes black.
It's not tremendously interesting, but Bitzer would get a lot better.
It's not tremendously interesting, but Bitzer would get a lot better.
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- boblipton
- Oct 31, 2014
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By what name was Frazer Canyon, East of Yale (1899) officially released in Canada in English?
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