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The wonderful serpentine dance performed by Jehanne d'Alcy and directed by Georges Méliès returns to YouTube.

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Some of my GIF from "His Preistoric Past" https://youtu.be/XB8LY6PXLus

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"Light, just light making everything below it a toy world. Very well, we’ll make the glasses accordingly." Although there are no direct links, this film by Cohl recalls the poem Dippold the Optician by Edgar Lee Master, contained in the Spoon River Anthology

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Perhaps we were wrong and it wasn't the end. While the colors, symbols, flags, gods, and people have changed, the enemies of democracy remain the same. Open your eyes, stay alert. We will continue to fight our small battle, unarmed, with the only weapon that heals rather than harms: culture. And we'll contribute as much as we can. ‪@iconaus‬

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"Heil Donald!"

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Bustur with A Movie Camera

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Here are a handful of stunning frames from our latest release, The Pillar of Fire, featuring Georges Méliès and Jehanne D'Alcy performing a fiery serpentine dance

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I've never had so much fun creating GIFs, not even with Chaplin or Keaton films. The Doll by Ernst Lubitsch is truly an extraordinary film. I wonder how I could have missed it before! Don't make the same mistake I did: watch it now!

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The Doll by Ernst Lubitsch is often seen as a precursor to German Expressionist cinema due to its innovative use of set design and visual aesthetic. The film's sets are clearly artificial and stylized, almost like a dollhouse or a paper theater.

Many objects, such as the kitchenware, are painted directly onto the backdrops. This artistic choice, which breaks from realistic representation, anticipates the use of distorted sets and sharp angles typical of later Expressionist films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). Furthermore, the film's opening shows the director himself building a diorama and placing the doll-like characters inside it, who then come to life. This emphasizes the fictional nature of the world, a concept echoed in the Expressionist approach that prioritizes subjective vision over objective reality. Finally, the very theme of the film, a woman pretending to be a doll, constantly blurs the line between reality and fiction. This approach aligns with the Expressionist tendency to explore themes related to the psyche, identity, and a distorted perception of reality.

With its cartoonish style and deliberately exaggerated aesthetic, the film moves away from realism and toward an art form that aims to express feelings and moods through visual shape, thus positioning itself as an interesting example of proto-Expressionism in cinema.

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Hey fellow film lovers! I've rewritten and re-edited the description for the Méliès film The Devil in a Convent. I would be super grateful if one of you could read it over, correct it, and maybe even improve my French and English translations.

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