Sandow: The Strong Man (1894)
- Directed by
- William Kennedy Dickson
- Genre
- documentary film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 40 min
- Rating
- 5.2 of 10 from 46 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This is a very early film showing a strongman named Sandow flexing his muscles. It was one of the first short movies ever shown in a Kinetoscope viewing machine.
historicalshortsilentstaticobservationalcurioussimpledocumentary-style
What happens
Sandow, connu aussi sous le titre de Souvenir Strip of the Edison Kinetoscope et aussi Sandow, the modern Hercules est un film américain réalisé par William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, sorti le 14 avril 1894. Sandow est le premier film (industriel) de l'histoire du cinéma. C'était le numéro un des dix films du premier Kinetoscope Parlor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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