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AN EDISON ALBUM (1893-1912)
September 2, 2013  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

A prime-time look at the origins of cinema begins with this TCM compilation, which spends 90 minutes showing some of the earliest films to emerge from the Edison Studios under the auspices of inventor Thomas Edison. My film students will be covering this next week, so they can get a head start here. But everyone should watch this, because I’m sure it will include one of my favorite Edison productions, a film that makes a clear link between the earliest film shorts made for public consumption and the rise of YouTube more than a century later: 1894’s super-brief novelty film, Boxing Cats. And this compilation is followed by another from the earliest days of cinema: Lumiere’s First Picture Shows (1895-1897), at 9:30 p.m. ET.

 
 
 
 
 
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Peter Squire
Is "An Edison Album 1893-1912 " available on DVD?
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