by Dale Dalenberg | Jan 10, 2020 | 100 Years, 100 Films
1909 in “100 Years, 100 Films” sees the advent of the one director who is responsible for more films in this series than any other, D.W. Griffith. Looking back at film history in chronological order, it is very obvious that there be a B.G. and an A.G....
by Dale Dalenberg | Dec 27, 2019 | 100 Years, 100 Films
Acquiring the Lumière patents, the French company Pathé quickly rose to dominate the film industry in the early days of cinema. Around this time (1908), Pathé invented the newsreel, which came to supplant the actuality films as the leading form of documentary on...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 28, 2019 | 100 Years, 100 Films
A comedy trick film from the makers of Rescued by Rover. Lewin Fitzhamon (1869-1961) was producer Cecil Hepworth’s favorite director until “Fitz” broke away to form his own film company in 1912. Like many early film-makers, they played a lot with...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 17, 2019 | 100 Years, 100 Films
Winsor McCay’s comic strip “Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend” ran in the Evening Telegram (a sister newspaper to The New York Herald) from 1904-1911. Pictured here is the Dover Books facsimile edition of a 1905 Frederick A. Stokes publication collecting...
by Dale Dalenberg | Nov 10, 2019 | 100 Years, 100 Films
This delightful film is the template for all hero dog movies to follow, especially the Lassie films. Maybe it is an urban legend, but allegedly the surge in popularity of the name Rover for pet dogs started with this movie. When a baby is kidnapped, the family dog...
by Dale Dalenberg | Oct 17, 2019 | 100 Years, 100 Films
Two years after A Trip to the Moon, Georges Melies continued his tongue-in-cheek riff on Jules Verne with The Impossible Voyage. A group of inept geographers take off on a comic voyage of exploration. They manage to crash or destroy every conveyance that they employ...
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