I am a fan of Edwin S. Porter's movies. Many of his works, best known among them THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, were well shot and innovative. This one, however, falls into that class of actuality which is utterly devoid of details that might allow some one to say "Yes, that is the place it says in the title."
It's a picture of a snowy intersection. The camera pans left and right a bit to show us the trees to one side, the large number of people dressed for cold weather on the other. Yes, there are sleighs of the horse-drawn variety, and they move briskly along. However, I see nothing that would allow me or, indeed anyone to identify it as Central Park. Given that there are several identifiable landmarks in the Park and have been since the middle of the Nineteenth Century, this is a sad lack.
Unless there were people in the audience willing to stand up and say "I know that tree," that is.
It's a picture of a snowy intersection. The camera pans left and right a bit to show us the trees to one side, the large number of people dressed for cold weather on the other. Yes, there are sleighs of the horse-drawn variety, and they move briskly along. However, I see nothing that would allow me or, indeed anyone to identify it as Central Park. Given that there are several identifiable landmarks in the Park and have been since the middle of the Nineteenth Century, this is a sad lack.
Unless there were people in the audience willing to stand up and say "I know that tree," that is.
