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Video series: Film History I: Silent Movies | Tutor: Andrea Oberheiden

What was the first picture ever taken? What were the first moving images? What was the first sound ever recorded?
We are going to explore the very beginning of the moving images. Join us on our way from the camera obscura to the laterna magica, from Auguste and Louis Lumière's cinématographe and Edison's Kinetograph to the narrative films of George Méliès. We will explore technical developments as well as the stylistic characteristics of international silent films.
The series will end with the early years of talking pictures around 1930.

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