Chinese Opium Den (1894)
- Directed by
- William Kennedy Dickson
- Genre
- documentary film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1 min
- Rating
- 3.0 of 10 from 9 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.
How it feels
An early silent short film from Thomas Edison's studio showing a scene in an opium den. It is one of the first movies to deal with drug use but no known copy of the film survives today.
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What happens
Chinese Opium Den (also known as Opium Joint) is an 1894 American short black-and-white silent film. It is an early motion picture produced by Thomas Edison. Very little is known about the film as no print is believed to exist and all that remains is a single still image. It is believed to be the first motion picture to explore the issue of drug usage. Ten years later, Edison produced Rube in an Opium Joint, which is seen as the earliest such film that still survives. According to the Internet Movie Database, the film was made in a 35mm film format with an aspect ratio of 1.33:1. The film was intended to be displayed through means of a Kinetoscope. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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