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Early Cinema - Vol 1 (DVD)

Newest Review: ... short reel of film - when the reel ran out, the film ended. They're really just photographs that move. So we get the ... more

... Lumiere Brothers as tourists, filming Niagara Falls or a Spanish bullfight, or taking a family portrait of parents feeding a baby. There's very little acknowledgement that film could be used for anything other than simple observance of life, and the film titles reflect this. "Repas de Bebe", "Demolition d'un mur", "Arrivee d'un train en gare a La Coitat", that kind of thing. The most famous Lumiere material is here - a shot of a train arriving at a station platform that apparen...more

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Early Cinema - Vol 1 (DVD): When cinema was young (2019 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 17.07.01 (Very useful, 157 readings)
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Cinema was "officially" invented in 1895 by the French Lumiere brothers (it's claimed that Edison in the USA had a working of moving pictures as early as 1892, but for some reason film historians tend to ignore this). Having grown up with modern films and being used to their little ways it can come as quite a shock to watch the earliest examples of the "seventh art". There are many fundamental elements of films today that we hardly notice because we're so used to them - cameras that move, for instance, and editing. Such bold innovations didn't exist back in the old days. Cinema as we know it really only started to crystallise from ...

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