William K.L. Dickson and William Heise deliver what is seen by many as the first motion picture from the United States of America. There is no story to it and it's really exclusively experimental. It was the starting point for Dickson directing over 150 films in the following ten years, Heise about half as many.
The hardly recognizable person here is one of Dickson's lab workers, G. Sacco Albanese, who was never seen in motion pictures again after Monkeyshines. The only true value this has is the nostalgia. Non-cinema history buffs should stay away. And even for those interested in the early years of cinema, the mosaic-like effects and recordings and the vague contours of Mr. Albanese are probably nothing to watch more than once.
The hardly recognizable person here is one of Dickson's lab workers, G. Sacco Albanese, who was never seen in motion pictures again after Monkeyshines. The only true value this has is the nostalgia. Non-cinema history buffs should stay away. And even for those interested in the early years of cinema, the mosaic-like effects and recordings and the vague contours of Mr. Albanese are probably nothing to watch more than once.