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La voix du rossignol (1925)
beautiful beautiful beautiful
What can I really say? I don't want to waste time talking about the technical aspects because this movie is simply pure joy. Too beautiful to remain obscure. Hey film festival guys: get this movie out there!
The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy (1915)
give it a chance!
It's amazing stuff now and it was probably even more so back in 1915. I can't believe it's gotten such low votes! Even if you can't get past its primitive nature (no pun inten ... oh well, what the heck, pun intended), surely you can appreciate it as a dry run for King Kong. Amazingly graceful, fluid movement at times, and O'Brien really must have had some fun scrutinizing every last detail of the missing link's body movements. Obviously the work of someone who cared.
An Airman's Letter to His Mother (1941)
I wish more propaganda were this short...
Powell might have to lay on the pathos, but it is not to this short piece's detriment. Except for the RAF cloud-formation at the end, which is admittedly a bit much, his use of a very sparse cinematic vocabulary (for instance, there are no "performances", per se)can pack a minor punch, making five minutes seem even shorter.