- When nature finished the rest of the world, she took all the colors left on her palette and generously and recklessly threw them into that spot of the earth that is now Colorado (given that name for that very reason). Eventable riot of awe-compelling color, a blending of almost sacred beauty, Colorado is nature's masterpiece. The rainbow and an Italian sunset all frozen into the everlasting hills, the matchless granite hues soothe yet stir one to the unknown depth as their sublime spell falls upon us. We unconsciously acknowledge the majesty of nature and her supremacy over merely human artists. They are psalms and a sermon in stone. As we stand in the Garden of the Gods, looking at the weirdly wondrous figures carved by the great sculptor, we forget our petty cares and paltry woes, our yearnings and our hopes or despairs, our conquests or defeats, for we are in Divine presence, selfishness and avarice are forgotten, for we are with beauty and our own heart and soul and mind become beautified. Colorado's charm is at once an aspiration and an inspiration. Poets of song and nature's genius have been inspired to dream, dare an achievement through the mighty sight of the wonders of nature. Artists have vainly attempted to translate on canvas a picture of picturesque Colorado. Rex has accomplished, with the aid of science, what artists have failed to produce.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- The film opens with views of the industrial parade recently held in Denver, the floats used and the great crowds on the sidewalks being pictured clearly. Then a bird's eye view of Denver follows, which gives the spectator an idea of the wealth and importance of the city. Next we accompany a party of tourists, as the ascent above the clouds is made, on the Moffet road, and we are treated to a snow-ball contest on Mt. Corona in July. The trip by train, over the Georgetown loop, is next made, after which we see passengers making a sheer ascent of 4,000 feet up a precipitous mountainside in a bucket by means of an endless aerial wire rope. We next look down the Cheyenne Canon, near Colorado Springs, and afterwards make the trip to Royal Gorge, the sublimity of the scenery dwarfing the works of men and even the flights of the imagination. And now the mind is carried back to the races of the remote past, as we view the ruins of cliff dwellers at Manitou. We are immediately recalled to the present by a band of Indians engaged in a war dance, in the very shadow of the cliffs through whose openings many thousands of eyes have peered out on fearsome scenes in the far past. Manitou is next visited and we view the famous soda springs, where the water of that name is bottled and shipped far and wide. Our party then makes the trip by auto to the Garden of the Gods, near Colorado Springs. There the famous "Balanced Rock" is seen in the left of the roadway, resting its weight of hundreds of tons on a tiny base from which one expects to see it topple at any moment, before the breath of the wind. The massive "Steamboat Rock," fashioned in the shape of a ponderous steamer, is seen on the right. Returning, we meet Ute Indians going to the garden to engage in a sun dance. The world's largest warm water swimming pool, at Glenwood Springs, is next visited. Near the springs we catch sight of mountain climbers, and the adventurous camera man must have been near them, for we see Glenwood Springs and the valley, thousands of feet below. Our eyes are relieved for a moment from the monotony of stupendous sights as we watch the busy apple pickers near Canon City, Colo., and thence we are whirled away to Cripple Creek, the great mining camp above the clouds. There we are treated to a panoramic view of its straggling buildings. Last we go up the Skyline driveway, near Canon City, in an auto, and learn that the massive underlying masonry and the entire road has been built by convicts from the State penitentiary, in Colorado Springs. "Picturesque Colorado" is a scenic film of fine educational value.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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