Bass Fishing
Taken for the U.S. Fisheries Commission to illustrate the benefits of stocking inland waters. A well-known fisherman, Mr. Henry Talbot, is seen casting in a picturesque pool for bass. He gets a strike, plays the game fish to a fin...
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"I don't know the identity of the chap wielding the fishing rod in this picturesque flick from American Mutoscope & Biograph but he looks like an upper-class Captain Birds Eye with his handsome white beard and military bearing. This isn't really a particularly good film even for 1901, but at least it's trying to show something other than a guy standing by the riverside on the wooden end of a piece of glorified string being dunked in the water. And, what d'ya know? By unbelievable coincidence the camera starts filming mere seconds before he lands a catch. That's rig..."
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Taken for the U.S. Fisheries Commission to illustrate the benefits of stocking inland waters. A well-known fisherman, Mr. Henry Talbot, is seen casting in a picturesque pool for bass. He gets a strike, plays the game fish to a fin...