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Feb 1, 2009

Somme documentaries, and others: p.s.


p.s. Further confusing the facts, the liner notes for disc 1 on the DVD set Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film, say that the photo of Billy Bitzer and his camera on Engine No. 856 is from 1896, in Boston.  However, note that disc 1 ("The Mechanized Eye") includes no films from 1896, or from pre-1900 for that matter.
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