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marlin lee	Jun 28 2009, 04:17 PM
Charter Member Posts: 5,072 Group: Members Member #6 Joined: September 2, 2005	panzer the great & terrible Jun 27 2009, 07:47 PM What IS interesting is the way it was restored. In the old days some genius at the Library of Congress figured out that they didn't want inflammable nitrate prints around the place -- good thinking so far -- and insisted on having a photo of each frame of each movie on one card per frame, never mind how much space they take up -- but no title cards, just the images. Thanks to this harebrained idea restorationists were able to re-photograph each frame and we now have an approximation of Griffith's first movie, which isn't really worth watching. Ain't technology the nuts? According to the Kino Edison Invention of the Movies set the reason for saving the images as photos was because there wasn't any legal way to copyright a motion picture. The only way to copyrright the film was to copyright each image as a photo. Also at least in the Edison submissions all the images were printed on a strip of photographic paper.


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