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.
A review of significant events and principle players in the year 1897 in film. Includes a YouTube playlist of 275 films.
A review of significant events in the year 1905 in film and profiles of the principle players behind them. Includes a YouTube playlist of over 13 hours.
A review of significant events in the year 1906 in film and profiles of the principle players behind them. Includes a YouTube playlist of nearly 20 hours.
A review of significant events in the year 1907 in film and profiles of the principle players behind them. Includes a YouTube playlist of nearly 18 hours.
A review of significant events and principle players in the year 1896 in film. Includes a YouTube playlist of 256 films.
The Year 1908 in Film: The Debuts of Detective Films, Film d’Art, Peplum, Griffith and the Russian Film Industry. Includes a YouTube playlist.
The Birth of Cinema: a review of the events and players who contributed to the development of the film industry from 1874-1895. Includes a YouTube playlist.
Historian David Bond explores the connection between French pantomime in the first decade of the 20th Century and one of Europe’s first feature-length films, L’Enfant prodigue (The Prodigal Son).
A Pathé film of uncertain date has long been identified as Les Tulipes (1907).
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.
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