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Film Before Film
Was geschah wirklich zwischen den Bildern?
1987 · Film · documentary · 83 min
Directed by Werner Nekes
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.
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You may enjoy these two films:
Painters Painting (1973) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCnvrNfrUGg
Film before Film (1986) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKTvEsvH59g
If you love this stuff, be sure to check out the documentary "Film before film" (1985) by Werner Nekes (1944-2017) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nQl9C3CUcc and the other films in the six-part series Media Magica http://wernernekes.de/00_shop1/index.php?p=productsMore&iProduct=7