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The Astronomer's Dream (French: La lune à un mètre), is a trick film from 1898 realized by Georges Méliès .

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Llévame tan lejos que no pueda ver la soledad aferrada a esas montañas.

Busca en mí la clave para envejecer y apágame los censores de nostalgia.

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Aaron

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diseño camiseta iconauta 2 (no utilizado)

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The Consequences of Feminism (1906) Alice Guy

The Consequences of Feminism ( Les Résultats du féminisme ) is a  film from 1906 directed by Alice Guy. In this film, she represents a world that has been tilted upside-down, where men behave like women and women like men.

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Course à la saucisse (1907) Alice Guy

The Race for the Sausage (French: Course à la saucisse )  is a 1907 film by Alice Guy. A comedy film with a chase, already a classic feature of the early cinema.  Dotted with accidents caused by the procession of pursuers, in a partly natural setting, the film also depicts everyday life at the time. And the spectacular effect of the stunts and damage has lost none of its effectiveness (a fall among the pigs: 1:46, a pram run over by a train: 4:21...).

Synopsis. (0:15) A poodle steals a long sausage from a grocery counter. Alarmed by this precious loss, the owners set off in pursuit of the delinquent animal. (0:21) Running through the city streets, the dog creates a procession of unlikely pursuers who end up fighting over a piece of the precious sausage thanks to the unexpected intervention of a hunter (3:47), who fires a shotgun and splits the sausage in two. The poodle, meanwhile, will have already consumed his booty without further ado (4:21).

Check out the film The Policemen's Little Run (1907) by Ferdinand Zecca

Alice Guy (b. 1873, Saint-Mandé, France; d. 1968, Wayne, New Jersey, USA) was a pioneering filmmaker, the world's first director and producer. She began working as a secretary for the Gaumont company and became a key figure, shooting numerous short films, reports, short silent scenes and sound phonoscenes. Lacking collaborators, she devoted herself personally to training directors, editors and set designers. In 1907, Alice Guy resigned from Gaumont, married Herbert Blaché, employed by the same company, and both moved to the United States. There, Alice Guy-Blaché founded her own production company, Solax, the first film company run by a woman. However, Solax failed to survive the transition from shorts to feature films.

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May that day come again when we will call each other ...

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I made this short video by animating phenachitoscope discs at a speed of 15 frames per second.

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Victorian Lady in her Boudoir (1896) Esmé Collings

Victorian Lady in Her Boudoir is one of the two surviving films by Arthur Albert "Esme" Collings and one of the very first subtly erotic films that other directors would soon begin to replicate, giving rise to one of the most flourishing genres in world cinema (01:16) .

Synopsis. (00:06) The camera observes a beautiful lady undressing and (01:01) comfortably reading a book.

The care taken in the decoration and especially the lighting, suggests that this was filmed on a photographic set, probably in one of the studios Collings owned between London and Brighton. Collings was, after all, a photographer who specialised in portraiture and settings similar to this can be seen among his photographic works.

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Panorama des rives de la Seine - IV (1896) Lumière

Panorama des rives de la Seine - IV ( Panorama of the banks of the Seine in Paris - 4) is view number 687 in the Lumière Film Catalog and the last in a series of Parisian views filmed from a bateau-mouche sailing on the Seine, a traveling from left to right allowing us to catch a glimpse of the banks of Grenelle, the base of the Eiffel Tower and all the life moving around. We do not know the name of the author of these images, but we can recognize his talent. (01:04) At the end we have added images of present-day Paris, showing the same places filmed in 1896 by the unknown Lumière operator.

The piece of music accompanying these images is French Suite No.2 in C minor, BWV 813 (Allemande) by J.S. Bach was performed on piano by Ivan Dolgunov

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Manuel, as the tramp, in Georges Méliès film The Tramp and the Mattress Makers

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Experimental Color Film (1901-02) Edward Raymond Turner

Experimental Colour Film is the oldest colour film in the world. It was made by the British filmmaker Edward Raymond Turner and consists of four short films, shot between 1901 and 1902, showing three children with sunflowers, soldiers marching in Hyde Park, his children playing with a see-saw and a parrot. However, Turner had no opportunity to develop his work further: he died the following year, in 1903, aged only 29. 

The colouring process patented by Edward Raymond Turner required a disc with three-colour filters to be mounted on the camera so that one frame of the image was taken in red, blue and green and then three frames of the film were projected at a time.

On Turner's death, the producer Charles Urban, who had financed Turner's project, entrusted George Albert Smith  the task of continuing his work, but he gave it up a year later, judging it too complex and cumbersome, and developed his own system which he called Kinemacolor. 

#youtube #iconauta #early british cinema #Edward Raymond Turner #Charles Urban #george albert smith #frederick marshall lee #color film #Experimental Colour Film

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The Merry Frolics of Satan (1906) Georges Méliès

The Merry Frolics of Satan (Les Quatre Cents Farces du Diable) is a 1906 film by Georges Méliès.

Synopsis. The engineer William Crackwork wants to go around the world at full speed and to fulfill his wish he sells his soul to the alchemist Alcofibras, who turns out to be Satan. Clackford is unaware of the alchemist's true identity and sets off on incredible adventures with his family and faithful assistant John, until Satan comes to claim his soul.

This film develops the themes of Méliès' poetics that already appeared in Le Manoir du Diable in a more mature way. By comparing these two films, we can see how Méliès learned to create increasingly sophisticated special effects that are more integrated into the narrative plot. However, this remains Méliès' weak point: his films lack a solid narrative structure that is independent of special effects.

To better clarify the narrative points, we have added texts and captions that are not present in the original film. The music is by Fabio Napodano (aka It-Alien). The music tracks are taken from the album Devils Stare posted on Jamendo.

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The Automatic Motorist (1911) Walter R. Booth

The Automatic Motorist is a 1911 fantasy film directed by Walter Robert Booth. It is a grand remake of Booth's previous film The Motorist

and which had proved to be a great commercial success. This new version was produced by Charles Urban's Kineto Film. Walter Boot shows off all his arsenal of tricks and special effects, sparing no effort to copy from himself and others, in particular Georges Méliès. At the end of the video we have included a video summary of the scenes and tricks from which Booth seems to have been inspired.

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Screenshots from Chaplin's film Laughing Gas (1914)

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In The Park (1915) Charlie Chaplin

In the Park is a comedy film directed, written and starring Charlie Chaplin . Chaplin's third film produced by Essanay , In the Park picks up on the intrigues already underlying Chaplin's earlier films at Keystone: the Tramp wanders through a park among beautiful girls, jealous boyfriends and patrolling policemen, just as he did in Twenty Minutes of Love . It was his penultimate one-reel film before By the Sea , thereafter Chaplin would turn to more complex plots with more elaborate characters, where every gag was studied in detail and less and less room was allocated to improvisation.

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