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| KexMex | May 27 2008, 02:08 PM Post #1 |
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=F1i40rnpOsA This film, two seconds long, is the oldest surviving film. I think we should all see and enjoy this piece of history. It's a masterpiece, too. Lovely plot, terrific acting... dialogue's a bit off, but the movie is free to interpret. |
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| packmule | May 27 2008, 06:51 PM Post #2 |
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 Question: how can you interpret anything from a moving image only two seconds long? |
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| KexMex | May 27 2008, 06:58 PM Post #3 |
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"Where is he going?" "Why is she moving backwards?" "What the heck is that silly dance for?" |
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| packmule | May 27 2008, 06:59 PM Post #4 |
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Legitimate question. These could attributed to the fact this film is, well, 120 years old. ;) |
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| KexMex | May 27 2008, 07:01 PM Post #5 |
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People walked backwards and danced silly in the 1880s? That's just... confusing. 
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| packmule | May 27 2008, 07:03 PM Post #6 |
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Indeed they did, Kex. They're doing it, in fact, right now: it's called hip hop. 
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| KexMex | May 27 2008, 07:05 PM Post #7 |
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I see, so hip hop is a 120 years old silly dance. Doesn't explain the walking backwards, though. Speaking of that, the actress who did that, Sarah Robinson Whitley, died 10 days later.. but she left a big mark before going, being in the world's to-be oldest film! |
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| packmule | May 27 2008, 10:51 PM Post #8 |
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No, it's not 120 years old...but I do think it's silly. Maybe or maybe not. Perhaps, Kex, walking backwards was a fad of some kind back in the late 1800's. |
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| KexMex | May 28 2008, 07:37 AM Post #9 |
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Ah, like kids in the future wear their pants inside-out. |
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| packmule | May 28 2008, 07:44 AM Post #10 |
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Looking at that movie clip, of something made from 120 years ago...make me wonder what movies will look like 120 years from now. I saw an internet article recently that films, in as little as 30-40 years, will employ CGI so advanced that most people will think it's real people and not computer images. |
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| KexMex | May 28 2008, 07:46 AM Post #11 |
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That sounds perfectly reasonable. I'm very interested in how a person from the 1880s would react to a movie of our age. :) |
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| packmule | May 28 2008, 07:52 AM Post #12 |
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With utter amazement, I would think...unless they were watching low budget schlock like Kentucky Fried Movie or Where The Buffalo Roam. ;) |
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