from a Biograph Serpentine Dance film
c.1895-1897
It looks like a splice combined with thick linear emulsion scratches but the emulsion also seems to be peeling away. Really we're lucky to have such an early treasure in any condition.
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Showing posts with label erosion/corrosion. Show all posts
10/10/13
2/18/10
further erosion/corrosion
La maschera del demonio (1960)
directed by Mario Bava
Alice in Wonderland (1903)
directed by Cecil Hepworth
and Percy Stow
Murder! (1930)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
While hauntingly beautiful, I'm sure these are not the images
these directors wanted to
leave in our minds.
If films by these important and influential directors
are eroding and corroding,
what else are we losing?
5/20/09
further disintegration
More beauty within loss.
With a running jump, our hero grabs onto an overhanging bar and spins himself upwards onto the next floor.
How sad that the one piece of stunt work in Street Angel is nearly lost to deterioration.
How lucky we are to experience it with the glow of disintegration that gives the feat an other-worldly quality:
1/23/09
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