Aside from The Kiss, this year we have some genuinely amazing work from Georges Méliès – real one-minute horror and fantasy films, a huge leap forward for the artform. The Haunted Castle (Le Manoir du diable) The Kiss Le Cauchemar (A Nightmare) Snowball Fight McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio Blackfriars Bridge Lion, London Zoological …
L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat Annabelle Serpentine Dance Repas de bébé Barque sortant du port Akrobatisches Potpourri La Charcuterie mécanique Démolition d’un mur The Derby L’Arroseur Arrosé Cordeliers’ Square in Lyon The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory
If you were surprised to find that Thomas Edison reciting “Mary Had A Little Lamb” wasn’t the first thing in the first mix, you may also recollect that sound film started in 1927 with The Jazz Singer. But here we are 32 years earlier, and what do you know, here’s the first example of someone …
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Annabelle – Serpentine Dance Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph Carmencita Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, Jan. 7, 1894 Annie Oakley Shooting
Produced by William Dickson at Edison’s Black Maria studio in New Jersey, Blacksmith Scene is the earliest example of a staged scene with actors playing roles.
Cinema was even more a sideshow attraction than recorded sound in 1892. In pre-Lumiere France, cinematic pioneer Émile Reynaud was projecting slides with moving images in front of painted backgrounds at his Théâtre Optique in Paris. In a sense this had been done for hundreds of years with magic lantern shows, but Reynaud’s innovation was …
