Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by scientists and inventors, to the triumph of the talkies.
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Directed by Ren Jingfeng.
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William K.L. Dickson brings his hat from his one hand to the other and moves his head slightly, as a small nod toward the audience. This was the...
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Experimental film fragment made with the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, using 3/4-inch wide film.
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Short silent film about some models of silk stockings.
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Silent documentary short showcasing a fashion show in the late twenties set at the Côte d'Azur.
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An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
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A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goes to sleep at 10pm.
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A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over...
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Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrificed to Moloch, Cabiria is rescued by Fulvius...
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A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
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Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family...