DO NOT SELL Voiceover. The Innocent Years - Part Two. Entertainment, Motion Pictures
MS white woman cranking Mutoscope. CU inside loaded machine; CU "animated" images of men shaking hands (illusion of motion through succession of stills). MS man peering into nickelodeon, watching film of female dancer.
MSs inventor THOMAS EDISON at Menlo Park home, walking about or talking with his smiling crew of lackeys. MS white man cranking Vitascope projector
Excerpt from "The Great Train Robbery" (1908).
TLS/MSs behind the scenes at motion picture movie shoots (shifty sets, hammy actors in heavy makeup and costume, hand-cranked cameras, directors in perpetual motion; includes funny shots of thief about to kidnap the heroine when a set wall collapses on top of him).
MSs film production crew shooting Old West battle scene, the director losing his nut, going crazy.
MS people under vestibule of nickelodeon.
DO NOT USE: Fiction film set in 1910. People in theater.
Excerpts from early fiction film starring MARY PICKFORD
Excerpts from early fiction film LILLIAN GISH
Excerpts from early fiction film Claire McDowell
MSs white men (projectionists) hand-cranking projectors in booths.
DO NOT USE Excerpts from early fiction film CHARLIE CHAPLIN
MSs white men (projectionists) hand-cranking projectors in booths.
Excerpts from early fiction film starring the KEYSTONE KOPS (featuring FATTY ARBUCKLE and a host of wild daring dangerous stunts involving moving cars and trains).
MS people exiting a movie theater.