Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Cinema - and lots of it ...

In 1895, December 28, Auguste and Louise Lumiere staged the first commercial movie screening at the Grand Cafe in Paris.  There were ten short films on the program, each one about 50 seconds in length.  (Take a moment to compare that with the recently-released Don't Look Up - which comes in at 2hr 25m.)
To commemorate all those years of moving pictures, Moon Film (known for reediting popular films so folk can watch them backwards - and who even suspected that that was a thing) have compiled Cinema - 120 years in 120 seconds. It's definitely worth the 2 minutes to see how many of the films you recognise - and how many you don't. I wonder what films they will use when they update it next.

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