Video: How to see the first movies
As the film curator Dave Kehr explains in this video from New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the images were hardly the grainy and frantically paced footage that has become synonymous with ‘old film’ today.
November 14, 2020 · 3 Comments
Video: Mark Twain at Stormfield, 1909 (Edison film)
Shot by Thomas Edison in 1909, this digital restoration of a short film is most likely the only moving image of Twain in existence. Watch him strolling around Stormfield, his … Continue reading
July 12, 2015 · Leave a comment
