Short Film Saturday: The Devil’s Castle (1896)
The cinema’s first horror film!
Short Film Saturday
Short Film Saturday: The Cabbage Fairy (1896)
One year I viewed a lot of Alice Guy films such that she was featured as a category on my favorite older films list. Being the first female director would make her notable enough, being talented has allowed her to endure.
Short Film Saturday: Demolition of a Wall (1896)
The first film to feature footage moving in reverse, and it is done explicitly as an experiment.
Short Film Saturday: William McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio (1896)
Short Film Saturday: Earth is a Miracle by GOOD
In this day and age there are any number of ways to record images and set them in motion. These time-lapsed, satellite composite images tell a story in and of themselves, but the text on screen puts them into even greater perspective.
Short Film Saturday: Gary Busey Reads “‘Twas The Night Before Christmas”
It’s delightfully off-kilter until it’s just delightful. As opposed to his Amazon ad and other recent works its lacking in self-conscious quirkiness and just is. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas!
Kudos to the New York Daily News for making this one happen.
Shamelss Self-Promotion – St. David’s Episocopal Church: A Community of Disciples
This was a film I had prepared in January of 2016 for the Diocesan Convention of Delaware hosted by my church. It’s a documentary about some of the people and missions of the church for those who made not know. The work was made a bit easier thanks to my interview subjects and the amount of materials I had access to. Enjoy!
Short Film Saturday- Dictionary.Com’s 2016 Word of the Year: Xenophobia
Yesterday, I introduced a new category for this site in order to free up Saturday for newer or more varied short films. I like this word better as a choice rather than what Oxford chose this year, which I think of as a non-word that signals we’ve entered an age of Post-Intelligence if we truly embrace it.
Anyhow, Dictionary chose this based on the spike in searches in the US. No doubt linked to a certain campaign featuring a certain guy. To create an accompanying film they got Robert Reich to play on the style of his Facebook videos and he discusses the word well, in context, and with some snazzy whiteboard illustrations. Enjoy!
Short Film Saturday: The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
The film is cut at last, and in stunning fashion, it is used in an effort to depict violence. So much for that being a modern problem.
Short Film Saturday: Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
Color, like sound, came to film well before many realize. Initially the only way to bring color to film was hand tinting, which debuted as a technique in 1895.
