Matches: An Appeal (1899)

Directed by

Arthur Melbourne-Cooper

Genre

silent film, audio-visual advertisement

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1 min

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a thirty second stop-motion film made in 1899. It uses animated matches to encourage people to send matches to British soldiers fighting in the Boer War.

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