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Vernon Howe Bailey's Sketchbook of Philadelphia (1916)

Vernon Howe Bailey's Sketchbook of Philadelphia poster
Directed by
Vernon Howe Bailey
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
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How it feels

An animator draws scenes of Philadelphia, showing the city's buildings and streets from 1916. It is a short silent film that captures how the city looked over a century ago.

silentobservationalnostalgicgently-pacedhistoricalsketch-likeurbancalm

What happens

Vernon Howe Bailey's Sketchbook of Philadelphia è un cortometraggio muto di animazione del 1916 diretto da Vernon Howe Bailey. Fu il quarto di una serie di cortometraggi che Howe Bailey (1874-1953), famoso illustratore e pittore statunitense, scrisse, diresse e produsse tra il 1915 e il 1916 per la Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, una casa di produzione di Chicago. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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