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Properly to understand this picture the student of it in a moving picture theater should know what and where Cowes is. Cowes is the Mecca of the World's yachtsmen, an unpretentious little village on the Isle of Wight, just off the southern coast of England. Its surrounding waters are traversed by ocean liners and numerous other craft, thus giving Cowes Roads a very animated aspect, comparable in some respects to the Narrows of New York. Each August, society resorts to Cowes for the yachting, and there are innumerable contests in which the chief yachtsmen in the world congregate, including the German Emperor. The result is that some magnificent racing is seen, and the sport affords a splendid test for high-class photography. The stationary photographs of the yachts are tolerably familiar, and that, too, of very high technical quality, but it has been reserved for Mr. Charles Urban to show us, in his moving picture camera, a magnificent series of motion photographs of the beautiful white-wings, as they are called, which flock to Cowes in the yachting season. The definition of these pictures is wonderfully sharp and crisp, and the tone values excellent. Then the yachts were photographed at comparatively short range and are shown in all variety of evolution. This is one of the most beautiful pieces of technical moving picture photography which Mr. Kleine has released. The audience, on the occasion when we saw it, applauded the picture very vigorously; it came so freshly, surprisingly and changefully in the program. We have no doubt that this yachting picture will be immensely popular wherever it is shown. It illustrates a notable sport in its best phases, and the photography of it does justice to the theme. – The Moving Picture World, October 16, 1909