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The Deonzo Brothers (1901)
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The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded, stand on opposite sides of the stage, and jump from one barrel into the other until they both land in the same barrel at the same time. They then jump backwards onto the stage over the two barrels. One table is then mounted upon another and the center barrel is placed on top. The brothers still blindfolded jump one each into a barrel and from them to the first to the second table and from the second table into the barrel on top of the second table. They then jump backwards onto the stage. This is pronounced by show people to be the most marvellous acrobatic feat that has ever been introduced. (Edison Catalog)

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Come Along Do! (1898)
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★ 5.6 8 ratings
other title: 一起来 / 一起来干吧! …
Come Along, Do! is an 1898 British short silent comedy film, produced and directed by Robert W. Paul. The film was of 1 minute duration, but only forty-some seconds have survived. The whole of the second shot is only available as film stills. The film features an elderly man at an art gallery who takes a great interest in a nude statue to the irritation of his wife. The film has cinematographic significance as the first example of film continuity. It was, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "one of the first films to feature more than one shot." In the first shot, an elderly couple is outside an art exhibition having lunch and then follow other people inside through the door. The second shot shows what they do inside.

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The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901)
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★ 6.3 9 ratings
other title: 乡下人与放映机 / 农夫和放映机 …
A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.

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Rough Sea at Dover (1896)
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★ 5.9 16 ratings
other title: 狂暴的大海 / 多佛的海啸 …
英国无声纪录短片《狂暴的大海》(英语:Rough Sea at Dover),由伯特·艾克瑞斯(Birt Acres)和罗伯特·W·保罗(Robert W. Paul)拍摄于1895年末,拍摄地是英国肯特郡多佛尔,1896年1月14日上映。