marioshizzle
It truly is a man walking around the corner.Marvelous.
He_who_lurks
This film from Louis Aime Augustin le Prince is not a film at all. From what I know, this was made in 1887 and the first celluloid film ever, which I believe is "Roundhay Garden Scene" was made in 1888. Also IMDb calls this a 'frame sequence' which is basically a series of images put together to make a moving picture, like animation. One could call this a film, but calling it that you'd be wrong; a series photography is more the term for it.The title tells us what to expect, but the image is very blurry and we can't hardly see what's happening. The framing is bad too. However this was 1887 so be glad we still get some idea of what's going on, even if it's hard to see much. In fact it's so hard to see the man that I'm not sure anybody can actually identify who he was.By the way, I've also done a review on "Roundhay Garden Scene" on IMDb as well.
boblipton
The trivia on the IMDb... entry is as good a word as any, I suppose ... says this is not a film. It was shot on a device of LePrince's devising which used sixteen lenses. By triggering then in order, he got an image over a span of time... sort of. The positions of the lenses differed, which meant that the series, when viewed, jumped around.This tentative groping towards an explanation forces us either to define what a film is narrowly, or to understand the organic process that led to what we call a film now. The former leads us to pettifog over details that are often irrelevant, and the latter provides us with no clear answer to the question of what film is. Do we in the 21st century, who frequently watch "movies" shot on digital cameras, processed in computers and viewed on our computers even watch films?I prefer to think as film as a recorded moving image which we view, one produced by a process which, in its commercial forms, includes films, movies, television, and other related items. It did not arise suddenly, but evolved out of earlier technologies, which include flip books, magic lanterns, phantasmagorias and such nineteenth century devices as praxizooscopes and kinegraphs. If you accept that attitude, then the question of whether this is a film becomes irrelevant. It may not be a film by some technical definition, but it an important artifact in the development of that art.
Dylan Hammond
This is the finest piece of art I have ever seen. The man walking around the corner has been called a "modern masterpiece" (Joel Taylor, 2015), to which I can agree. It brings the quality of all media to a new level. Any who wants to try and make a film should watch this first to get an idea of where the bar has been set. In the words of the great Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, "It is not about the length, or the camera quality of the video, but it is about the emotional drive and the attachment that the audience has with the Man Walking Around the Corner, and our star, the man walking around the corner." Excellent watch, I would recommend this to every aspiring film-maker.
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