There is a stage which daily makes a sixteen-mile journey through Yosemite National Park where natural and not artificial beauty reigns. The Pathé camera has taken the same route and as a result the verdant valley is transplanted to the screen. On both sides of the beautiful valley are lined enormous peaks (one of them, Half Dome, a mile and three-quarters high) and entrancing waterfalls, Bridal Veil and Yosemite. The latter 2,600 feet high. Vernal and Nevada, spilling their sparkling streams into the turbulent little Merced River that winds its way like a silver thread through the Yosemite Valley.
—Moving Picture World synopsis