Motion picture still of a sleeping man with small figures – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Motion picture still of a sleeping man with small figures, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Motion picture still of a sleeping man with small figures
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Small figures clustered around a sleeping man set this still apart from the many Edison pictures of ordinary street scenes and workers. Visual play like this, with staged scale and a dreaming figure, was one way early filmmakers explored what the new medium could do beyond recording events. The Edison Manufacturing Company, whose studio in West Orange, New Jersey, produced many short films around 1900, promoted its work with stills like this one. The trick of scale depended on careful sets and camera placement rather than the digital tools we take for granted now.
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,195 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125997 |
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