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Friday Afternoon Videos: The history of film

July 3rd, 2008 at 03:42pm Will Pfeifer

Here’s a fun promotional clip Motorola released a few years ago. It was designed to hype a then-brand-new cell phone, but I’m posting it here because it’s a smart encapsulation of more than a century of movies, stretching all the way from the pre-cinema zoetrope to LOST IN TRANSLATION — hey, there’s a Coppola connection there! — with flashes of Chaplin, Hitchcock, Saul Bass, METROPOLIS, CITIZEN KANE, James Bond, THE GRADUATE and a whole lot of other movies in between.

 

Entry Filed under: videos, Classic movies

1 Comment Add your own

  • 1. jan  |  July 6th, 2008 at 8:24 am

    What a great clip! I’ll have to watch it more than once to get all the references, but I liked the Nosferatu and Great Escape ones as well as The Graduate.

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