Sunday, June 14, 2009

The First Movies Post

Fred Ott's Sneeze.  
I am assuming that this isn't supposed to be a comedy or anything.  Seems like it was just a test of one of the first films.  I had to watch it a few times to see when he actually sneezes.  It was hard to tell when exactly he sneezed since there is no sound.  

Arrival of a Train and Exiting the Factory
Both of these films were there most boring 40 seconds of my life.  I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever want to pay to see these films.  But I guess back in the 1890's when this was a new technology people wanted to see it.  I could not believe people fled the cafe where they were viewing the film fearing that a train was coming at them.  In the film the train is not even coming straight on towards the camera  so why were they fearing anything?   

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