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Hotel Del Monte (1897)

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Hotel Del Monte (1897)
Sponsor: Southern Pacific Railroad. Production Co.: Edison Manufacturing Co. Director: James H. White. Camera: Frederick W. Blechynden. Transfer Note: Scanned at 24 frames per second from a 35mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 27 seconds.

This early sponsored film by Southern Pacific Railroad offers views of tourists at the opulent resort in Monterey, California.

Note: Among the other early titles promoting the sponsor are Southern Pacific Overland Mail and Going Through the Tunnel.

Resources
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Film Beginnings, 1893–1910, Eli Savada, comp. (Metuchen, NJ, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1995), 486; Charles Musser, The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990), 234.