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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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and an avid member of the Amateur Cinema League who enjoyed recording his life and travels on film. It lasts approximately 16 minutes.
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documents approximately 38 cities, towns, and locations named "Augusta" across the
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as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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This article is about the home movie. For other uses, see
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movie cameras loaded with both black-and-white and color
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This article about a short silent documentary film is a
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made by Scott Nixon, a traveling insurance agent from
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Index

Augusta
home movie
Augusta, Georgia
silent film
Eastern
Midwestern
Central
Southern
United States
intertitles
postcards
post offices
train stations
town signs
fingerposts
8 mm
16 mm
film stock
University of South Carolina
Augusta, Kansas
Augusta, New Jersey
Augusta, Indianapolis, Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana
Augusta, Missouri
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Washington County
Augusta, Arkansas
Augusta, Maine
Augusta, Kentucky
Augusta, Michigan

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