Bath Scene was shot with a Mutoscope camera (built by William K.L. Dickson, this one-minute film's director & his partner Herman Casler, copyright in 1895). The Mutoscope had a huge negative, larger than anything we have today in size and potential aspect ratio, with the exception of IMAX. There were no perfs, so if it's steady the original film is probably beholding to subsequent digital restoration. Historical glee 20 years prior to World War !.
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The Merchant of Four Seasons 1971
I don't believe anyone has the right to comment on this film with any possibility of authority unless that person realizes (even if hidden from view) that he or she is a pig. Me, I'm something of a pig, but unfortunately don't have any faith that anything I say will help us out of our universal barnyard predicament, but I can recommend this film very highly to those who think too much, take long walks alone through the city parks,…
