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Sunday, 31 October 2010

1910 - King Lear - Gerolamo Lo Savio

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King Lear is the third Shakespeare film to be critiqued by Film: Ab Initio; it is also the third Shakespeare film to be produced by a di...
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Sunday, 26 September 2010

1910 - King Edward VII's Funeral

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King Edward VII’s funeral, which took place on Friday 20 May 1910, was a one of the 20 th Century’s first ‘global events’. Royalty fro...
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Saturday, 18 September 2010

A most unusual film - 1910 - The Acrobatic Fly

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The Acrobatic Fly is one of the more peculiar films I have encountered. Although it only lasts for three minutes, it is a film that has c...
Tuesday, 14 September 2010

1910 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Otis Turner

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The early silent film era (which I would classify as running from 1895-1914) is a grossly neglected era of filmmaking. As this blog has p...
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Thursday, 9 September 2010

1910 - An Animated Masterpiece - The Hasher's Delirium - Emile Cohl

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The most surprising aspect of early animation is how wildly inventive and playful it can be; both qualities can be found in abundance in ...
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Monday, 6 September 2010

1910 - Film's first sex symbol - Afgrunden (The Woman Always Pays) - Urban Gad

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Silent film’s greatest strength is the universal language of the visual image. When this is combined with the fact that a global economic...
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Sunday, 29 August 2010

The Top 10 Films of the 1900's

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Film’s first full decade was remarkable by any art form’s standards. The one common thread that the thematic kaleidoscope these films shar...
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