There is a story to this short subject -- a sergeant (played by Hobart Bosworth) and the colonel's daughter (Iva Shepard) find themselves lost in the wild west and must make their way back to civilization. Given that they are lost in Yosemite National Park, the point of the story is to show off as much of the beautiful scenery as possible, with the specific sites noted in the titles. It's basically a travelogue with a plot to fill in the corners and the print, one of the items recovered from the New Zealand archives a century after its production, is remarkable for its stark, naturalistic beauty.
While the techniques of movie making shifted soon afterwards, this style of "faux documentary" did survive and definitely has its values. It's a bypath, another of the ways that film might have gone, which survives in the genetic material of the modern cinema.
While the techniques of movie making shifted soon afterwards, this style of "faux documentary" did survive and definitely has its values. It's a bypath, another of the ways that film might have gone, which survives in the genetic material of the modern cinema.
