Six degrees of Artravelist.
Well, sort of…let’s step into the time machine. We’re starting in 1980s Scotland, travelling via tinsel town to Harlem in the 1930s and then Lindy Hopping around the world.
Category: USA (page 1 of 1)
So, after looking at the previous post on the history of her life, how can we travel in the footsteps of Alice Guy? Much of her working life has been lost to cinema’s forgotten history. The advent of the talkies and the later dominance of Hollywood as a production centre in the USA can often obliterate the early years of cinema. Much of it is not preserved and, much like the old nitrate films themselves, seems to have gone up in smoke. But, let’s have a peek at what we might find. For a few moments, let me be your travel guide in space and time 😉
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In which decade was the world’s first-ever female film director? Was it perhaps the ’60s? Or possibly the ’20s? No. Try the ’90s — the 1890s. Try 1896, to be exact.
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Frida Kahlo at the Botanical Gardens, The Bronx, New York
May 16 — November 1 2015