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The Acrobatic Fly
The challenge of the very slow lens required by F. Percy Smith for macro-photography, coupled with the insensitive film stock of the day, meant that so much light was required for exposure that the poor flies quickly succumbed to the heat. As Smith had glued their wings so that they could not fly away,...Start your free trial to watch
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After the Ball
Georges Méliès' fantasy films and his re-enactments of current events shared an important quality: both offered audiences images they could not have seen outside the cinema. There's something of this in the appeal of a pornographic or erotic film as well. Featuring a scenario so trite it has become timeless (a woman removes...Start your free trial to watch
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Ain't She Sweet
19th century song pluggers in vaudeville theaters and in the streets invited audiences to join in the chorus; this tradition of participation appeared in movie theaters by the mid-teens. When sound arrived, Fleischer Studios' delightful "Screen Songs" added witty animated prologues and celebrity singers to prepare the...Start your free trial to watch
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Around the Horn in a Square Rigger
AROUND THE HORN IN A SQUARE RIGGER was filmed by noted sailor, author and photographer Alan Villiers documenting the record-breaking 83-day voyage of the 1902 barque Parma from Australia to England in the 1933 Grain Race. Villiers writes, “We wanted to make a picture that would capture some of the stirring...Start your free trial to watch
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Arrival of a Train
An alternate and arguably more dynamic version of ARRIVAL OF A TRAIN, the famous Lumière short that inspired the myth of an early cinema audience ducking the image of an oncoming locomotive. In this version, the train runs on a left-right diagonal and far more passengers disembark upon the open platform....Start your free trial to watch
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Artheme Swallows His Clarinet
This film was produced by the short-lived Eclipse Company. Few Eclipse films survive and, when this delightful comedy was found, the print was decomposed along the edges and the end had melted away. Ten years later, another print miraculously surfaced, free of rot but very choppy. This edition is digitally...Start your free trial to watch
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The Automatic Moving Company
Historian Donald Crafton credits this 1911 Pathé Frères film THE AUTOMATIC MOVING COMPANY to Romeo Bosetti; it too is an imitation of an earlier work, Emile Cohl's MOBILIER FIDELE, made in 1910 for Pathe's rival, Gaumont. However, Cohl also worked for Pathe in 1911 and the two artists sometimes...Start your free trial to watch
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Autour de la roue
Widely regarded as one of the most innovative productions of the silent era, Abel Gance’s LA ROUE is a film of mythic stature. Poet and novelist Blaise Cendrars shot this illuminating behind-the-scenes footage in the midst of the film’s difficult location work. He captures the elaborate technical setups...Start your free trial to watch
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Balloonland
Balloonland has appeared in many video collections, often under its 16mm home-movie title THE PINCUSHION MAN. Blackhawk Films Collection holds the original nitrate red/blue Cinecolor negatives, and this astonishing film is presented here with restored pictures and prepared in collaboration with the UCLA Film and Television...Start your free trial to watch
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Baron Münchausen’s Dream
The legendary Baron Münchausen (an actual German aristocrat well-known for his exaggerated stories) has been portrayed many times in dozens of films over the years. In this telling by the equally remarkable Georges Méliès, Münchausen has spent an evening dining with his friends. He retires for the night...Start your free trial to watch
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Between Calais and Dover
Having just completed a series of films imagining events from the 1897 Greco-Turkish War, including THE SURRENDER OF TOURNAVOS, MASSACRE IN CRETE and SEA FIGHTING IN GREECE, Georges Méliès reapplies the rocking-ship technique from the last of these to a pure amusement. Passengers crossing the English...Start your free trial to watch
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Between Showers
BETWEEN SHOWERS was inspired by a series of torrential rainstorms that soaked Los Angeles. The comic situation for this violent, improvised film involves a display of gallantry toward a young woman (Emma Clifton) and an umbrella stolen from a policeman (Chester Conklin). This was the last Charles Chaplin film directed by...Start your free trial to watch
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Black and Tan
RCA produced BLACK AND TAN to showcase its Photophone sound system. Director Dudley Murphy collaborated with Fernand Leger on BALLET MECANIQUE in 1924 and seasons this film with avant-garde sequences while also telling a story. The late Karl Emil Knudsen, well-known Danish producer of jazz records, purchased the original...Start your free trial to watch
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A Busy Day
Charlie (Charles Chaplin) obstructs a camera crew dressed as a shrewish woman whom neither her husband (Mack Swain), the film director (Mack Sennett) nor the local cop can control. A BUSY DAY was filmed in Wilmington during a dedication ceremony and parade celebrating the Los Angeles harbor expansion.Start your free trial to watch
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By the Law
BY THE LAW breaks down into several stylistically different parts, only one of which resembles the grotesque extravaganza of MR. WEST. Gone is Kuleshov's insistence on the straight-forward, plot-advancing shot. Gone is the idea of montage as a step-by-step elaboration of some process. Rather, the opening sequence slowly...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cameraman's Revenge
After filming several live-action documentaries for the Natural History Museum in Kono, Lithuania, Ladislas Starewicz started a film about fighting stag beetles but was frustrated when the insects refused to perform under lights. Starewicz decided to recreate the fight by articulating dead beetles in...Start your free trial to watch
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Cartoon Factory
In 1919, Ko-Ko the Clown first emerged from the inkwell to grapple with his creator, Max Fleischer. Combining live action with animation, this highly imaginative series of 130 films inspired Walt Disney's Alice comedies, among others. This film was found in the same collection as the French original print of I FETCH THE...Start your free trial to watch
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Caught in a Cabaret
Charlie (Charles Chaplin), a cafe waiter, impersonates a foreign dignitary at a garden party in amorous pursuit of a society debutante (Mabel Normand). His true identity is revealed when the society girl and a party of her friends go on a "slumming" expedition at the cafe where Charlie waits tables....Start your free trial to watch
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Caught in the Rain
Charlie flirts with a married lady (Alice Davenport) in a park, only to be warned off by Ambrose (Mack Swain), her outraged husband. Returning to his hotel after a stop at the local saloon, the drunken Charlie is rebuffed in his pursuit of another attractive young woman. CAUGHT IN THE RAIN is an important...Start your free trial to watch
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Cette nuit-là
CETTE NUIT-LA presents Jacques Tati in a screen advertisement which was projected in French cinemas. Film ads in Europe predated the American practice by several decades. As with newsreels, commercials were often left behind in theatres as the producers did not request return of the prints.Start your free trial to watch