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New York, Brooklyn Bridge 1896
A train finishes crossing the span of the bridge, then another one starts. Interestingly, the famous bridge can barely be seen in the background, meaning the choice was made to focus on the part of the rails that would give us two trains in quick succession. Just an interesting little shift that our interest isn't supposed to the bridge so much as the mechanical use to which it's put.
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A Daring Daylight Burglary 1903
Location shooting adds a lot to this simple tale of a burglary and its chase aftermath, even as it takes away from the actors, transforming them into stock criminals and cops.
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The Gilligan Manifesto 2018
This documentary takes the fact that Gillian's Island creator Sherwood Schwartz was inspired by an academic exercise imagining a microcosm of society on an island and uses it as a springboard for a cartoonishly oversimple argument that seems chosen to be provocative and off-kilter rather than making much sense. A game Schwartz participates in this documentary but carefully doesn't confirm much beyond the idea that the show commented on contemporary American society (which is pretty indisputable if you've ever watched…
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Arab Cortege, Geneva 1896
Two small crowds walk past each other in opposite directions. The camera is pointed at a street corner in such a way that you can trace more or less two curved trajectories across the street. There's one person wearing a white keffiyeh whom you can follow all the way up the rightmost street before the film runs out. Again, I get the sense that this was designed to be viewable over and over again. For example, if you focus on…
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