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 R. W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908 (DVD)
Description: Genre: Television / Theatrical Release: 1895 / Exempt / DVD released 2006-11-27 at Bfi Video / Features of the DVD: PAL Newest Review: ... a performer wanders out of frame then we're often left watching nothing. And of course the age of the films means that ... more  ... absolutely none of them are in anything like pristine condition. Most have a fascinating layer of scratches and other damage lying on top of the pictures, which creates some enjoyable visual effects but also adds to our emotional distance from what we're seeing.
It's striking that it took a long time for the most basic film-making rules to be worked out. One of the films on this DVD is reputed to contain the first ever instance of editing - gluing two pieces of film together to create the illusion of a story taking place i...more |
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R. W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908 (DVD): Prehistory (1097 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 22.04.08 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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This is a DVD put out by the BFI, collecting all the surviving work of pioneering British film-maker RW Paul. One of the best things about film as an art form is that we know when it started and can trace its development from the beginning. This isn't something you can do with many other art forms. Moving pictures were invented sometime in the 1890s, and enough films from 1895 onwards still exist for us to be able to follow the early development of film as people began very gradually to realise what this wacky new invention was capable of. Sadly, the vast majority of silent film is lost forever - film stock disintegrates over time, and very few people ...
