Train and Telegraph films at the NH Telephone Museum
I’ve been thinking about the telegraph a lot lately.
I’ve been thinking about the telegraph a lot lately.
In case you are new to this page, Be Natural is the feature-length documentary based, in part, on my book, Alice. Here is a link to the Be Natural Page that lists where the film can be seen in theaters this month and into June, both in the U.S. and internationally.
Here are links to some reviews:
BAM will be showing a series of films by early women filmmakers.
Alice Guy, later Madame Blaché, and after her divorce Alice Guy Blaché, was born on July 1, 1873, in a suburb of Paris. We can credit her with inventing film narrative language as we know it today.
Mystery. Comedy. A murder in an old house where everyone is a suspect.
Although we can't be sure who filmed the 1905 Gaumont hand-colored movies La malagueña y el torero y Le Tango, we have identified one of the performers. La Bella Romero (real name, Elsa Romero) was born in Malaga in the late nineteenth century. By early 1902 she was dancing tangos and sevillanas in Madrid (El Globo (EG) 1902, Madrid, 3 January, 3). In 1903 she debuted at the Teatro Novedades in Barcelona, where she was a great success. Her fame continued to grow. She even performed with La Fornarina and appeared in films.
Alice Guy traveled around Spain for six weeks, from October 15th to the end of November of 1905, filming in Barcelona, Madrid, Granada, Córdoba and Seville. Guy's mission was to film a series of chronophone films in Spanish and pave the way for Gaumont film distribution in Spain. Guy has also been tentatively credited with filming La Malagueña y el torero (1905) and Le Tango (1905) while on this journey. Francisco Griñán has investigated her journey in a way never done before.
I just completed a translation and edit of Stereotypes and Archetypes in Early Spanish Cinema by Francisco Griñán for the New Review of Film and Television Studies. The paper is a case study of how national archetypes and stereotypes get put into place.
Pictured: Gallerie des machins, Expo Universelle 1889 Paris
The blog, "Five Minute History" recently published a lovely survey of the Belle Époque. The Blog includes pictures of buildings from Paris to Mexico (including the Biltmore in Asheville, NC) that represent the cultural achievements of the era.
Most wonderful for me is the film from paintings of Paris in the era.
I'm just sharing a "Bored Panda" post: Beautiful pictures taken in 1913 using the Lumiere Brothers autochrome technique, that is, early color slides. Click on the link to see more beautiful image.