Century-Old Irish Films Survive

 

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The Huffington Post has posted several fascinating, very short films made in Ireland by the Mitchell & Kenyon film company:

“There’s a bit of YouTube to the 100-year-old film clips that emerged back in 1995 from barrels in English basement. They’re short, unscripted, a little rough around the edges, the stars were regular people and, in what would pass for 4G speed in 1900, they would be shot in the afternoon and screened that same evening.  But unlike digital media, they weren’t supposed to live forever, given the unstable and highly flammable nature of the nitrate film stock.”

You can learn more and take a look here.

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