Beauty Spots in America: Castle Hot Springs, Arizona
About Beauty Spots in America: Castle Hot Springs, Arizona
Essanay's travelogue walks through Castle Hot Springs, the resort between Phoenix and Prescott. It starts at the railroad station. Guests swim in the hot pools. A title gives the "cool" water as 75 degrees. The six minutes are a tour of the springs and the people using them, not a story.
More about Beauty Spots in America: Castle Hot Springs, Arizona
Essanay produced the short in 1916 as one of the Beauty Spots in America travelogues. No director is named. Silent Era lists it as a black-and-white 35mm short in the standard 1.33:1 frame. A viewer of the surviving print places the resort between Phoenix and Prescott and notes the 75-degree cooler water.
Themes
Background
Essanay, still making Broncho Billy westerns in Arizona country, also sold this scenic of a resort on the rail line between Phoenix and Prescott.
Making
Nobody is billed. The camera is there to show the pools and the guests, and the only figure the surviving commentary treats as information is the temperature of the cooler water.
Preservation
Silent Era lists a 28mm reduction positive and a 35mm preservation positive. The film is public domain in the United States.
Notes
- The picture opens at the railroad stop, then moves to the springs.
- Silent Era records a 28mm reduction positive and a 35mm preservation positive.
- The same listing calls the film public domain in the United States.
- Bob Lipton's note on the short says many 1910s travelogues of this kind were paid for by the railroad or the hotel that wanted the tourists.
Scenes
- The short begins at the station that serves the resort.
- Guests are in the hot springs, and a title puts the cooler water at 75 degrees.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-beauty-spots-in-america-castle-hot-springs-arizona)