A Quick History of Early Silent Films (spanning 1885 - 1943)

Cameron presents a history lesson that reviews 8 early silent short films from  1895 to 1943. Explore the earliest years of cinema with the perspective of a modern viewer attempting to find entertainment in the history. Without being under the influence, Isaac attempts to explain ideas around art moving a participant with an indescribable truth. 

Films included:

Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat - The Lumière Brothers (1895) 

La Fée aux Choux “The Cabbage Fairy” - Alice Guy Blache (1896) 

The Man With the Rubber Head - George Méliès (1901) 

A Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès (1902) 

A Corner in Wheat - D.W. Griffith (1909) 

The Massacre - D.W. Griffith (1912)

Un Chien Andalou - Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali (1929) 

Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren (1943)

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