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First Light: The Birth of Cinema 1895-1901
Co-Presented by The Sprocket Society
(Various directors, various years, 16mm, 75 min)
Kinetoscope Peepshows introduced the world to moving pictures but it was when they could be projected that these new "movies" changed the world. This special program features selections of these very first films, presented with live narration. Films include releases by the Lumière brothers, Thomas Edison, American Mutoscope, Georges Méliès and James Williamson, plus a very rare showing of films by Max Skladanowsky, whose Berlin screenings actually preceded the Lumieres'. Also shown will be a documentary about the paper print collection of the Library of Congress, which preserved thousands of films made between 1894 and 1912.
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum
1515 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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