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A Criminally Overlooked Masterpiece - 1911 - L'Inferno - Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan & Giuseppe de Liguoro 25 Mar 2011 | 09:18 pm
L’Inferno is one of the most ambitious films ever made. It was the first ever Italian feature film, took over three years to make, involved a cast of over 150 people and required the work of three sep...
Film's first melodrama - 1911 - Swords and Hearts - D.W. Griffith 18 Nov 2010 | 03:41 am
One of the great pleasures of watching cinema’s rich history in chronological order is the ability to witness a great director’s artistic evolution. Swords and Hearts sees Griffith move away from the ...
Film's first detective film - 1911 - Le trust, ou les batailles de l’argent - The Trust, or The Battles for Money - Louis Feuillade 10 Nov 2010 | 11:16 am
Too often, there are works of art that fade into obscurity which deserve far greater recognition. Several months ago, when Film: Ab Initio began exploring ‘Film’s Forgotten Decade’ (i.e. the period be...
Animation Comes Alive - 1911 - Little Nemo - J. Stuart Blackton & Winsor McCay 9 Nov 2010 | 12:36 am
Little Nemo functions as a promotional vehicle for the multi-talented Winsor McCay; in fact, the film's alternate title is Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Mo...
Film's first postmodern film - 1910 - Les Débuts de Max au Cinématographe - Max Linder's Debut As a Cinematograph Artist - Max Linder & Louis J. Gasni... 8 Nov 2010 | 11:20 am
Much has been made of the recent ‘discovery’ of a supposed time-traveller in the footage of the premiere of Chaplin's 1928 film the Circus. While the theory was swiftly debunked, it was undeniably exc...
Film's first American Civil War film - 1910 - The House with Closed Shutters - D.W. Griffith 6 Nov 2010 | 07:19 pm
One of the unique characteristics of the great directors of the early silent era is the sheer breadth of material that their earliest films covered. Both Griffith and Feuillade spent the ...
Film's first great horror film - 1910 - Frankenstein - J. Searle Dawley 6 Nov 2010 | 12:19 am
Unlike many of film’s early adaptations of literary works, the first cinematic adaptation of Frankenstein is the equal of its more famous successors. Rather than allowing the film’s limite...
1910 - King Lear - Gerolamo Lo Savio 1 Nov 2010 | 10:12 am
King Lear is the third Shakespeare film to be critiqued by Film: Ab Initio; it is also the third Shakespeare film to be produced by a different country (A Midsummer’s Night Dream was made in America a...
1910 - King Edward VII's Funeral 27 Sep 2010 | 04:12 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 King Edward VII’s funeral, which took place on Friday 20 May 1910, was a one of the 20th Century’s first ‘global even...
A most unusual film - 1910 - The Acrobatic Fly 19 Sep 2010 | 07:32 am
The Acrobatic Fly is one of the more peculiar films I have encountered. Although it only lasts for three minutes, it is a film that has consistently perplexed me for the last week. On its surface, Th...
