Duncan Smoking (1891)

Directed by

William Kennedy Dickson

Genre

silent film, documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1 min

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A man named James C. Duncan sits and smokes. The camera records the simple action without any story or sound.

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What happens

Duncan Smoking é um filme mudo de curta-metragem estadunidense de 1891, dirigido pelo pioneiro do cinema William K.L. Dickson para a Edison Manufacturing Company (o lendário Edison Studios só foi criado no ano seguinte), de Thomas Edison. A produção é a primeira parte da chamada Trilogia Duncan, que tem James C. Duncan como o herói principal, e mostra o protagonista fumando. Atualmente é considerado um filme perdido. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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