Talk:List of films preserved in the United States National Film Registry
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Koyaanis Qatsi -- thanks for all your work here. I did the change from all caps to lower case, but I was SO not in the mood to tackle any more. :-) -- Zoe
- It's no problem. And then Ortolan went through and italicized them all. Cooperation, it's a beautiful thing.
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Does anybody know anything about Rip Van Winkle (1896)? It isn't listed at imdb.com. -- Zoe
- It's not in my movie books, either. I'm going to hazard a guess--and bear in mind it's only a guess--that it was the first fiction film. (most films at that time were merely recordings of a short event, e.g. a ship docking or workers leaving a factory). In the meantime I will keep looking, as a list of KQ's guesses about things is not an encyclopedia. ;-) --KQ 06:14 Aug 27, 2002 (PDT)
- Doing a google search, I find the following: The film stars Joseph Jefferson, a famous comedy actor of the time, doing his most famous role. It was shot by early filmer Billy Bitzer. The pages I read about it are not clear on whether it was played out for the camera or shot at a normal theater performance. See also: Andre Engels
- There's this article on it:
- Johnson, Stephen. "Evaluating Early Film as a Document of Theatre History: The 1896 Footage of Joseph Jefferson's Rip Van Winkle." Nineteenth Century Theatre 20.2 (1992): 101-22.
- Unfortunatley my college doesn't have the periodical, though it's on pre-order. I'm not sure if they'll buy older issues, too, or just start a subscription. Probably the latter.
- (My university library may or may not have it; the catalog entry is inconsistent, one part says they have issues from 1973 through 1981, another says they have 'em through 1986. With luck they kept getting it for a few more years and forgot to update the records! I'll check when I'm next down that way. --Brion)
- Jefferson was American or British (accounts differ on where his family's from) and had Dion Boucicault write a version of the story for Jefferson to perform onstage in London; he later took it to New York. He became famous for the role, playing it over 4,500 times, bought 3,600 acres formerly called Orange Island, Louisiana, later renamed to Jefferson Island, and wrote The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, which was published in 1890 by The Century Co. N.Y. No word still on Andre's question above--and, unfortunately, there won't be in his autobiography, either. --KQ 21:38 Aug 27, 2002 (PDT)
- Doing a google search, I find the following: The film stars Joseph Jefferson, a famous comedy actor of the time, doing his most famous role. It was shot by early filmer Billy Bitzer. The pages I read about it are not clear on whether it was played out for the camera or shot at a normal theater performance. See also: Andre Engels
Jefferson's daughter-in-law, Eugenie Paul Jefferson, wrote a biography of her father-in-law: Intimate Recollections of Joseph Jefferson, pub. New York; Dodd, Mead and Company: 1909.
This page says that Jefferson performed scenes from the play (and not the whole thing?). --KQ
It looks like the most recently made movie is Tin Toy from 1986. Am I correct? Just me being curious... And even more so since it doesn't have an article, and I never heard of it. Tuf-Kat 06:38, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)
- A simple search in my browser finds that the most recently made ones are Beauty and the Beast and Boyz N the Hood, both from 1991. According to IMDB, Tin Toy is a five minutes animation movie on which Toy Story is based. Andre Engels 13:41, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)