Rector's to Claremont
About Rector's to Claremont
A party comes out of Rector's, on Broadway, and climbs into a horse-drawn carriage bound for the Claremont Inn. One man is left on the curb. He runs after the carriage along Riverside Drive, past Grant's Tomb, and only catches the others when they reach the inn.
Cast & crew
More about Rector's to Claremont
Edwin S. Porter shot the chase for Edison, from Rector's on Broadway to the Claremont Inn. Charles Musser, in notes to a DVD edition, calls the release date unknown and treats the surviving reel as possibly unfinished: dead time, then a near-repeat of an earlier shot.
Themes
Making
Porter used the real restaurants as the two ends of the trip and let the carriage set the pace of the joke.
Look
Porter's camera follows the carriage up Riverside Drive, with Grant's Tomb in one of the views.
Preservation
A print survives in the Kino Edison collection. Musser describes it as raw footage that may never have been finished for release.
Notes
- The opening is outside Rector's Lobster Palace, Broadway between 43rd and 44th Streets.
- The carriage is going to the Claremont Inn on Riverside Drive.
- Grant's Tomb is in the view along the drive.
- A surviving copy runs about three minutes and 47 seconds.
- The film was not copyrighted.
Scenes
- The party boards outside Rector's and leaves one man behind.
- He is still running when the carriage passes Grant's Tomb.
- He reaches them only at the Claremont.
