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.
A wealthy young atheist finds God, love, and loses his sense of class distinction in one the Edison company’s final productions.
Film review by Dan Willard. Visages d’enfants (Faces of Children) feels more modern than other films from the same era thanks to its realism and naturalistic acting.
Film Review by Dan Willard. Despite its groundbreaking and influential technical achievements, La roue is an overlong and rather maudlin melodrama.
Film review by Dan Willard. Unseen Forces is the story of a woman with psychic powers and her troubled romance with the son of a wealthy New York businessman.
Film review by Dan Willard. The Extraordinary Adventures of Saturnino Farandola is an engaging hodgepodge of fantasy, comedy, adventure, and science fiction.
Film review by Dan Willard. Considered the first truly Norwegian film, Gipsy Anne is the story of an orphan girl who grows up on a farm and is courted by her stepbrother and the farmhand who discovered her when she was an infant.
Film review by Dan Willard. Made to commemorate the Latvian victory over the German-White Russian army in 1919 Lāčplēsis is the first major Latvian film.
Film review by Dan Willard. Popular and controversial, Traffic in Souls is one of the earliest U.S. feature films and the earliest U.S. feature not based on a preexisting literary or dramatic work.
Film review by Dan Willard. Considered a landmark in Japanese cinema, Rojô no reikion or Souls on the Road, as it is referred to in English, is based on Maxim Gorky’s Lower Depths which was also adapted by Akira Kurosawa in his 1957 film Donzoko.
