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Film Before Film

Film Before Film

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 26, 1987

Runtime

1h 23m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

81%

Original Title

Was geschah wirklich zwischen den Bildern?

Production Companies

Werner Nekes Filmproduktion

Director

Werner Nekes

Description

An exhilarating and amusing encyclopedic look at the "prehistory" of cinema. Werner Nekes charts the fascination with moving pictures which led to the birth of film, covering shadow plays, peep shows, flip books, flicks, magic lanterns, lithopanes, panoramic, scrolls, colorful forms of early animation, and numerous other historical artiffices. Working with these formats, early "producers" created melodramas, comedies, -- as well as lots of pornography -- anticipating most of the forms known today. Nekes probes these colorful toys and inventions in a rich and rewarding optical experience. Film Before Film is a bewildering assault of exotic (and sometimes erotic) images and illusions.