The Year 1897 in Film: The Debuts of Vitagraph, Mitchell & Kenyon, Denmark and Venezuela
A review of significant events and principle players in the year 1897 in film. Includes a YouTube playlist of 275 films.
Category: Films from the 1890’s
The Year 1896 in Film: The Debuts of Georges Méliès, Pathé frères, American Mutoscope, Gaumont and Argentina
A review of significant events and principle players in the year 1896 in film. Includes a YouTube playlist of 256 films.
Early Film Pioneers: Alfred Clark and the Birth of the Historical Reconstruction Film
Alfred Clark began working for the Edison Manufacturing Company in 1895 and is the first film-maker known to have used the stop-motion technique and very probably the first to have filmed an historical reconstruction.
