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The Georgetown Loop (Colorado)

The Georgetown Loop (Colorado)

1903Short⏱️ 3m
ShortDocumentary
6
IMDB Rating
304 votes

Georgetown is a silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a camera that pans the scenery and, when the train goes around curves, looks ahead to see ...

Director
G.W. Bitzer
Writers
N/A
Stars
N/A
Language
None
Country
United States
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🎬 Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White

🏷️ Keywords

year 19031900s20th centurytrainsearly cinema

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⭐ Featured Review

1901 not 1903
by kekseksa2016-10-05

"This film was in fact shot in 1901 a part of a whole series of films taken on the Union Pacific Railroad in July of that year by Billy Bitzer. Just a couple of years after William Henry Jackson's famous 1899 photograph of the loop ("The Far-Famed Georgetown Loop"). The train is, I assume, the Overland Limited, which featurs by name in several of the other films. The rote was a particularly dramatic one and it would be good to also have the films taken as it traversed "The Fish Cut" in Wyoming, crossed the Dale Creek Fill and went through the Sherman Hill tunnel throu..."

📖 Synopsis

Georgetown is a silver-mining town at 8,500 feet near the crest of the Rockies. Hooked somehow to the rear of a four-car passenger train is a camera that pans the scenery and, when the train goes around curves, looks ahead to see ...