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 No.4088

What was the oldest film youve ever watched? did you liked it?

for me it was Duck Soup (1925)
And it was one of the best movies ive watched
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 No.4092

Metropolis.
I've seen lots of old silent films that I enjoyed, but Metropolis really didn't age well, which disappoints me because the concept was so amazing
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 No.4094

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Oldest short - Newark Athlete (1891)
Oldest narrative short - L'arroseur arrosé (1895)
Oldest feature (longer than an hour) - Birth of a Nation (1915)

I watched those shorts primarily for historical purposes. I've seen some Melies as well – fantastic!

Birth of a Nation is interesting but kind of a slog at times. Still I think one hundred years ago film started turning a corner to greatly improve.
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 No.4098

>>4094

how do I into /historyfilm/ ¿

what do you learn from watching such films ?
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 No.4100

>>4098
Some are listed here. Sort by Year of Release. Most are on youtube and are very brief.

http://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/

I don't have any deep thoughts on these antique fragments of film but it is interesting to witness how people dressed and behaved, how cities actually looked in the 1890s. It is much different than reading a history book.
It's also interesting to see the technical aspects of the birth of film.
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 No.4101

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 No.4102

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 No.4103

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>>4102
with added foley
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 No.4110

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Get on my level.
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 No.4142

The cabinet of Dr. Calgari (1920)
It was a good experience watching it, not the greatest movie, but an interesting watch none the less. Some points I actually found gave me the spooks, namely when we first see Cesar, plus a good twist ending
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 No.4158

>>4142
>good ending
Nigger are you serious? The ending completely undermines the whole point of the film
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 No.4160

>>4158
Who you calling nigger, nigger?
I disagree, I haven't seen it for a while now but from memory it handled it all quite well, albeit quite abruptly. I remember being told the ending and opening were added due to the films implications on the German government brainwashing its people during WW1, I really meant it was a good ending in the sense that Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer were still able to convey their feelings about Government during war whilst being pressured by the government to cahnge it and not sacrificing the films integrity, plus it had never been done before… that I'm aware of
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 No.10580

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>>4088

>Duck Soup (1925)

It's funny you started a thread about specific history but then got the year wrong

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 No.10581

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 No.10582

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You guys are missing a lot of cool attempts at moving pictures from BEFORE filmstrips were invented...

Watch this video on Eadweard Muybridge. If you don't know his name I think you'll like to learn about him. Among other things the man was responsible for the famous image of the galloping horse.

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 No.10583

>>4088

Birth of a Nation. Nice enough film, though it has aged horribly despite what it accomplished. More impressed by the likes of Metropolis and how amazing the sets looked.

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 No.10590

>>10581

>The film chronicles the adventures of an American, "Mr. West," and his faithful bodyguard and servant Jeddie, as they visit the land of the horrible, evil Bolsheviks.

this looks nice, i'm gonna download it, thanks

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 No.10777

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The oldest feature I've ever seen is Nosferatu, which is my favourite adaptation of Dracula and one of my favourite movies in general. Max Schreck blows Lugosi out of the fucking water with his performance. The oldest short film I've seen with a narrative is embed related, from 1899. It's a fairly simple short visually and in terms of the narrative, but I think it's incredible that something as simple as a jump cut to swap out an object to us was revolutionary back then.

Oh and I guess I've seen the Roundhay Garden Scene. It's pretty neat.

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 No.10784

>>10777

> I think it's incredible that something as simple as a jump cut to swap out an object to us was revolutionary back then.

i like how those cuts were used, so frequently and pretty fluid too.

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 No.12430

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<Some time ago I came across a phenakistoscope (also spelled as phenakistiscope or phenakitiscope or phantasmascope or phantascope), an antique optical instrument that displays animated images (practically current animated gif) invented in 1832 by Joseph Plateau. I then found some scans of these circles on the Internet and I began to digitally animate them. After a few attempts, I started to combine these animations trying to create something original and unpublished.

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 No.12431

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>>12430

Get on my level boys.

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 No.13802

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>>4103

NEW scan of A Trip Down Market Street, but no sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Jvx-olKtU

<This scan of the legendary pre-earthquake film was made from the best existing material at 4K (4096 x 3072) resolution and transcoded to 2K (2048 x 1536) for YouTube.

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