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4/10
Rough Seas Genre
boblipton1 February 2020
As the white water at White Horse roar and crash against the rocks, a man and his dog walk along the banks.

Even though the other reviewer may be correct about the provenance of this film, it remains, as it exists, a member of the genre of 'rough seas' movies. This is derived from simple photography, and as a movie, arose even before the perfection - so to speak - of motion picture photography in the middle of the 1890s. It remained, as can be seen, an offering of the motion picture catalogues into the Twentieth Century.

It suffers, as many early pictures did, of being essentially anonymous as to its actual location. If you were familiar with White Horse Rapids, you might be able to place it without the title. If not, it could be any piece of white water.
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8/10
This actually should be "Gold Rush Scenes in the Klondike (1899)" . . .
cricket308 March 2013
Warning: Spoilers
. . . but no one else here is willing to go out on a limb and put two and two together on ANYTHING having to do with these Edison films--as if they were all Bible verses, and if you say the Emperor is Nude lightning will strike you dead. Anyone who has spent time correlating Edison catalogs from 100+ years ago with the IMDb listings has realized that old Tom's sales materials are purposely inaccurate, but IMDb often swallows them hook, line & sinker. Well, I for one am not going to walk the plank in lock-step with the mindless hordes featured in that first hammer-throwing Apple commercial! The so-called WHITE HORSE RAPIDS short does not exist as a separate entity today; it is simply the third of four scenes in the 46.66-second anthology retitled by the U.S.Government's Library of Congress as mentioned in my summary! This short opens with a 9.58-second page view of a 12-page Feb. 16, 1898 newspaper front page focused on the one-column set of headlines: "Dark Tales from Klondike: A.J.Bowie, James R. Keene's Engineer, Says There Are Few Miners There. EXORBITANT PRICES FOR FOOD. Many Men Drowned in the Ice Floe on the Way--Famine Sure to Kill Many Laborers--Corporations Needed for Good Work." The first two scenes consist of panning shots of the main street of a large boom town, complete with a big souvenir sign "Railroad Photos & Views" and overhead street banner "Pond & Co. Souvenirs, Jewelry." Scene three is the White Horse Rapids snippet referred to in the Edison catalog. The final scene shows 8 people (including one woman) scattered amid the wooden scaffolding of an actual diggings in some sort of gully or depression, with a tent city visible on the plateau behind it. Three guys are wielding shovels, another is swinging a pick, but the tool of a fifth worker is out of picture frame.
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