Panoramic View of Newport

This is not a panoramic view of Newport. This is actually what happens when you put a camera at the back of a small, black-smoke-belching boat, point the camera at the prow right past the smoke stack, and race the boat parallel to the shore.

Newport? Why not? You might as well claim it is Newport.

For those with a passion for the study of bad movies, it should come as no surprise that the credited producer of this movie was James White, the man who singlehandedly invented bad movies. Lumiere and Pathe were producing beautifully composed pictures based on more than fifty years of camera work. In England, they were doing the experimental movies that evolved into modern film grammar. Mr. White, however, was busy clipping the interesting portion of the frame to no more than ten percent of the picture so that he could show us the back of the hats of people watching things.