WordSlingers' Video Contest for Glory..

This is just for fun, skill, glory, and hopefully a winning poem.
I have found this video on youtube, it has two silent films in one.
It amazes me how time was captured, I just love stuff like this.
So I thought it would inspire some of you to write about them/it.
I have one short poem, and on in the oven.
So please check it out, and create, thank you WS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5XlKaii0OE

Video Cinema Poetry

This man named Max
http://www.youtube.com/user/amt253
Has created a cool poetry Cinema Page on youtube.
There are fascinating videos to watch...

Cinema Poetry is a video blog devoted to bringing you some of the most poetic scenes and sequences in the history of cinema. "Les choses sont la. Pourquoi les manipuler?" Sometimes cinema is poetic by simply being cinema, and for no other reason. The ride film (or "phantom ride") was one of the great attractions of early cinema, and it's what began to launch cinema out of the theatrical performances staged for the camera at Edison's Black Maria and into a new cinematic space. Though theater has sometimes been thought of as cinema's closest artistic cousin, truly "cinematic" films take advantage of the key differences. Editing is one difference that we've explored before on this video blog. An aspect we haven't really delved into is cinema's ability to explore nearly limitless space and by doing so, transport viewers in a seemingly physical way that the theater cannot. I was reminded of the enduring allure of the ride film when someone recently directed me to this YouTube video, an excerpt of a 7-hour film broadcast on Norwegian television in 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql2qXp...

It's a glorious experience, and one not possible in art before the cinema. So for this edition of cinema poetry, I have two films for you from cinema's infancy: a glorious Lumiere short shot from the back of a rickshaw in Indochina in 1897, and an excerpt of a film shot from a cable car on San Francisco's Market Street in 1905, before the earthquake and fire razed much of that part of the city. The full film, as well as one shot after the destruction (and following approximately the same route) are available in the Prelinger Archives at
http://www.archive.org/details/TripDo...
and
http://www.archive.org/details/tmp_50168 .
And have a look at this comic once you've finished watching this episode:
http://www.qwantz.com/comics/comic2-4... .

Last edited by WordSlinger 03-07-2010 at 03:48:58 PM

WordSlingers' Video Contest for Glory..

He has 18 other videos, so if you want to write a poem about any others, fine, lol, just let me know what one it is, so I can be entertained, lol, thank you enjoy.

Just a little fire to inspire,
for in the Poets hood, keep the Poets eye
For a good Poet shall never die.

thank you WS

Last edited by WordSlinger 03-07-2010 at 03:50:10 PM

RE: WordSlingers' Video Contest for Glory..

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