Movies: Film history

2023
The Complete Story of Film (2023)
The Complete Story of Film
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At 18 hours and 43 minutes long, 'The Complete Story of Film' collects two epic documentaries by Mark Cousins into a stunningly expansive global journey through film history from the birth of cinema to today. The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an inclu...
1894
Wrestling Match (1894)
Wrestling Match
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Early short film....
2009
The General: Tour of Filming Locations (2009)
The General: Tour of Filming Locations
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In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, pinpoints the locations used in the filming of The General and offers glimpses of how they look today....
2011
A Cast of Characters: My Wife's Relations (2011)
A Cast of Characters: My Wife's Relations
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The actors in My Wife's Relations (1922) are discussed in this documentary....
2010
Sherlock Jr.: Tour of Filming Locations (2010)
Sherlock Jr.: Tour of Filming Locations
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This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations where Keaton's 1924 comedy feature Sherlock Jr. was filmed in Hollywood and Orange County....
2010
Three Ages: Tour of Filming Locations (2010)
Three Ages: Tour of Filming Locations
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This visual essay by John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, reveals the locations where Keaton's 1923 comedy feature Three Ages was filmed in Hollywood, USC, and Los Angeles....
2005
1 Parlor, 5 Bedroom and 6 Baths (2005)
1 Parlor, 5 Bedroom and 6 Baths
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A documentary about Buster Keaton's "Italian" villa in Beverly Hills....
2011
Silent Echoes: Seven Chances (2011)
Silent Echoes: Seven Chances
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In this visual essay John Bengtson, author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, provides a tour of where Seven Chances was filmed, comparing archival images with contemporary photos, and sharing stories of...
2020
125 Jahre Kino – Eine Reise durch die Wiener Filmgeschichte (2020)
125 Jahre Kino – Eine Reise durch die Wiener Filmgeschichte
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2010
Inside the Keystone Project (2010)
Inside the Keystone Project
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Documentary short regarding the preservation and restoration of the worldwide remains of the Keystone films....
2020
Animating Aeroplane Jelly (2020)
Animating Aeroplane Jelly
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A documentary about Australian animation pioneer Eric Porter’s work on the iconic Aeroplane Jelly animated promos of the 1940s and 1950s....
2006
The Discovery and Development of Film (2006)
The Discovery and Development of Film
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The birth date of film can be established: December 28, 1895. The place where it happened is also known: Paris, Boulevard des Capucines, Grand Caffe. It is also known who did it first: Louis Lumiere. However, the history of film starts in distant, al...
2006
In Search of Charlie Chan (2006)
In Search of Charlie Chan
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A documentary on the creation of the popular Charlie Chan detective character as well as the history of Chan films of the 1930s....
2022
Cinema in Kingston: From Muybridge to the Multiplex (2022)
Cinema in Kingston: From Muybridge to the Multiplex
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An oral history exploring the development of film projection and cinema in Kingston-on-Thames - from resident innovator Eadweard Muybridge through the heyday, decline, and re-emergence of cinema. Features interviews with historians, projectionists an...
2019
Chemical Intervention in (Film) History (2019)
Chemical Intervention in (Film) History
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Part one starts with an overview of the prehistory of moving images in the 19th Century: Zoetrope, Phenakistiscope, Chronophotagraphy etc. until the invention of the Cinematograph and Kinetograph/Kinetoscope. The second part will be devoted to the Br...
2006
Introduction to Filmmaking (2006)
Introduction to Filmmaking
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We live with films every day, and it seems nothing easier than answering the question: what is a film? Obviously, a film is, first and foremost, a document, a testimony of the world that surrounds us. The rich expressional possibilities of film are b...