Show notes
This time: Advances in animation, strange, dreamlike color projection, Méliès has a bum year, Segundo de Chomón makes Undead Fury Road, and the racist father of American Cinema D.W. Griffith gets his first role. So in order: cool, cool, aw sad, rad AF, booooooo.
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--- Potpourri ---
FantasmagorieStenka RazinThe Assassination of the Duke of GuiseThe Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (lost)The Runaway HorseA Visit to the SeasideDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (lost)
--- Manuel Makes a Mess, or is it Monsieur Méliès? ---
The Good Shepherdess and the Evil PrincessSideshow WrestlersTribulation, or Misfortunes of a Cobbler
--- The Chomón and Only ---
Excursion to the MoonThe FrogElectric HotelThe Haunted Hotel (J. Stuart Blackton, 1907)The Haunted House/The House of GhostsThe Golden Spider
--- Enter D.W. Griffith ---
Rescued From an Eagle’s NestAdventures of DollieLIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF NEW YORK LIFE; OR, THE SIGHTS AND SENSATIONS OF A GREAT CITY (The Grifter Manual)Moving Picture World, the film industry trade magazine
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