The Augustas (1930)

16m
Running Time

February 16, 1930
Release Date

The Augustas (1930)

16m
Running Time

February 16, 1930
Release Date

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Plot.

Scott Nixon, a traveling salesman based in Augusta, Ga., was an avid member of the Amateur Cinema League who enjoyed recording his travels on film. In this 16-minute silent film, Nixon documents some 38 streets, storefronts and cities named Augusta in such far-flung locales as Montana and Maine.

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Scott Nixon II

Scott Nixon II

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Release Date
February 16, 1930

Status
Released

Running Time
16m

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The Augustas (filmed in the 1930s and the 1940s) is a home movie made by Scott Nixon, a traveling insurance agent from Augusta, Georgia and an avid member of the Amateur Cinema League who enjoyed recording his life and travels on film. It lasts approximately 16 minutes.

The silent film documents approximately 38 cities, towns, and locations named "Augusta" across the Eastern, Midwestern, Central, and Southern United States. Arranged in no specific order, the film strings together brief scenes and shots of these communities, indicated through intertitles, postcards, or the point of a pencil on a train timetable or road map. The scenes vary, ranging from street scenes and landscapes to shots focusing on local businesses, post offices, train stations, business signs, street signs (typically town signs or fingerposts), and prominent buildings in each town, most of which usually have "Augusta" featured.

Nixon recorded The Augustas using both 8 mm and 16 mm movie cameras loaded with both black-and-white and color film stock. Throughout his life, Nixon recorded over 76,000 feet of film. His work, including The Augustas, currently resides in the collection of the University of South Carolina.Nixon later made a similar film, Augustas of the USA, around the 1960s. Approximately 5 minutes in length, Augustas of the USA features significantly less "Augustas", with many appearing in name only, but includes new footage, including aerial views from a small plane and scenes in Augusta, Georgia.

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